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To begin, take that first step

Julie Daley
Aug 8, 2017 · 3 min read

To begin. That’s the hardest part. To begin in that place. The place where you hear the call to create. The call to enter into something you do not know the outcome to.

To begin. To find clarity on the dream you hold —enough that the first steps you must take are apparent.

To begin. The call to become someone you’ve only caught a glimpse of. Because, when we create, we do change into someone we cannot fully anticipate. Sometimes the change is small and almost imperceptible. Other times, the change is great and so noticeable.

To begin. To stop living in the fantasy of your ideas and actually take the steps to live your these ideas into creation.

To dream the dream can be intoxicating. An addiction, living in the idea of the dream. The mind sees the dream so clearly that it believes the dream is being lived. But it’s not. Unless you begin with that first step, and then the next, and then the next, until you have seen it all the way through to completion — whatever that is for you.

This idea of being happy at all costs. If you just dream about the dream then you will always be happy. You can dream the best outcomes. You can imagine yourself to be anyone you want. But, if you find the courage to walk your dream into reality, you will know many things that you cannot know ahead of time. And you will discover what lies deep within you.

It can feel like you’re entering terror, a dark forest at night, a wasteland. And it can feel like you’re entering a fecund and fertile garden.

I walked many big dreams into reality. I had no idea where I would end up and at the end I felt things I had only dreamed of feeling, and I came to know things about myself I had only imagined.

And, I’ve held some dreams for a long time without walking them into reality. Somehow, I’ve managed to savor the idea of them so efficiently that I could pretend I was in some way moving toward them. Oh, I would take enough little steps to satisfy my own concern that I was doing something. But, I wasn’t taking the big gulp steps. The ones where you feel you are stepping off the cliff and into the ravine because you truly have NO IDEA what is out there on the other side of that choice. NO IDEA.

To enter into these places, we have to know a sense of self-confidence in our bones that we have the strength and presence to meet what is waiting to meet us. And we have to know that within us is the creative intelligence that created this vast universe. We must have faith that what fed this delicious dream to us in the first place is the same source of nourishment that feeds every dream that comes and everything that lives, and that it will feed us along the way, sustaining us as we make the trek.

What we also must claim is the readiness to be stripped of all that is false about who we believe ourselves to be and what we are capable of. Deep within us is everything we need to walk these dreams into reality. And we might just be stripped down all the way to the truth of what lies within us.

Your mind will tell you there is nothing to catch you, but take a big breath and then take the first step. The first step into the unknown. The first step toward the dream. Relish the feeling of courage and determination to know what you do not yet know, the possibilities you can not yet imagine.

Discover what IS there to catch you.

Discover that life will rise up to meet you.

Discover the brilliance that’s been waiting inside you all along.

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Julie Daley

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Leadership Coach & Mentor; Educator, Speaker. I guide people back to their own inner source and an unshakable self-trust. www.juliedaley.com

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