What’s your dream?

Do you struggle with accomplishing your dream?

I started this journey with writing a book about my parents and it blossomed into a million different things.

I realized that we were nobody’s in the world of publishing. Every advice I read and listened to said you have to start a blog and gain a platform. So we started The Wheels of Grace.

Since then I learned how to blog, continued to write our book, and more tasks came with it.

The next words I heard over and over again were you need a social media following:   We started a Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Next was you have to get published before you can get published. I began to write my own book that I wanted to self publish to be published before published.

Every single day I struggle with where to put my time and energy. I have a full time job which takes up 40 hours of my week.  Should I be taking the time to write my original book (which is the ultimate goal), should I be writing my book that I need to publish before I can publish, should I be building my social media platform, , should I be writing a new blog post, should I be taking pictures or making graphics for the new blog posts?

The lists are endless. There are a million things that come with writing a book and most of them are not even writing the book.

I have to be honest and say that it is a lot of work.

You may think that it sounds like I want to be social media famous, but that isn’t it at all. Publishers take into account how many people follow you on social media.  To publishers the amount of followers you have on social media translates into how my books you will sell. It is insane how crazy and competitive it is to get a book published and with the way of the internet it only gets more competitive.

I say all of this because for a while I haven’t felt good enough to do any of these things. I honestly haven’t opened up my laptop for weeks. Which isn’t like me at all.  I haven’t even opened a book, which is definitely not like me in the slightest.

This is not to say that I’m giving up, or that I won’t accomplish my goal, but only to say I’m stuck in a rut. I took a little break and I wrote this mostly for myself. So I can tell myself that the only way I can get to my goal is by doing all of these things. Some days are harder than others. The easiest days are when I receive e-mails from people telling me they enjoy our blog. Those are the days when I know it will all work out.

I do all of this to share our story and to be able to put it in the hands of others. For people to be able to hold our book in their hands, and smell the pages. I do it to encourage others and let them know that no matter how low you get in life that there is always a way to get up.

What will it take for you to accomplish your dream? Does it come with extra things you didn’t realized you had to do? Are you willing to do those unforeseen things because you goal means that much to you?

In the world of dreams I really think we can each accomplish them. As soon as I publish my book, my next dream is to help others reach their dreams. I really would like to devote my life to letting others know that they can do whatever it is they want.

The only thing we all have to understand is that doing whatever you want comes with late nights, early mornings, working through lunch, missing social events, staying home on the weekends, and constantly doing whatever it takes to get to that goal.

The other thing is knowing when to take a break and when to slow down. Knowing that it’s okay to not open your laptop for a week or two, but to get right back to it. Write yourself a letter to say that its okay that you’re not doing the best right now, but you will soon.

I had to write this to myself and to you because I know that you and I can do it. I will get my book published now matter how long it takes, I will build up our platform, and become noticed.

You will do it too, whatever that is. You will take extra time to start your dream today. You will stay up a little later, and you will wake up a little earlier. You will bring your lunch to your day job so you can use that time to work on your dream. You will start finding other people who do what you want to do and you will study how they do it. If they have a blog you will read that blog, if they have a podcast you will listen to that podcast. If they have a book you will read that book.
Now you will only do those things for some of the time, you must not waste all your time learning, you must take that leap and start doing. Promise me and yourself that you will start learning and then start doing.

We can do it!

Share with me what your dream is and maybe I can start early of helping others fulfill their dreams.  After all my dream of getting my book published isn’t really my dream at all, it is my parents dream and I decided to be the one to help them achieve it.

What’s your dream, tell me!

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