Are You a Dreamer or a Doubter?

I remember a line at the end of the movie "Pretty Woman" where a colorful street man is saying "Welcome to Hollywood. What's your dream?"

So what is your dream? Do you have one? Have you given up on one because it wasn't practical or realistic?

I had the opportunity last night to attend a local networking meeting where Marcia Wieder was the speaker. Marcia is known as the Dream Coach. I first met Marcia back in 1993 when she had just published her first book "Make Your Dreams Come True." Back then, my dream was to become a speaker and do workshops like she did. I started that path and 3 years later was a workshop speaker at the same conference as Marcia, and shared with her the path I had followed to pursue that dream. Serendipitous how that worked out. :)

Eventually that path led me to my new dream of coaching, which is my joy and what I do now, even though I still speak occasionally and lead teleclasses now.

So it was nice to meet once again and hear her speak. And I had an ah-ha moment while she was talking. She said that in order to dream you have to be willing to risk, and to risk you have to be able to trust yourself, which is where the voice of the doubter comes in.

My ah-ha was that this is what I do and continues to be my dream - to help people learn to trust and believe in themselves, and hear their inner voice of truth (which is much quieter than the voice of the doubter). It was a moment of clarity - one that I've really known, yet not been able to voice so clearly. Very cool - thanks Marcia! Because you can't risk or go for your dreams without belief in yourself - and that's what I help people do.

So as I continue to share my Stress Less Tips, they are ultimately to help you learn to connect with your voice of truth, so you can grow in self-trust and belief in yourself.

My Stress Less Tip for you today is to ask yourself: What is my dream (or dreams)? And as Marcia would say - "Are you more committed to your dreams or the voice of the doubter?"

Dream on!
Sandy :)
P.S. Marcia has a free offer for some ebooks if you are interested. You can find them here.

Change Your Life Teleclass Ends

Well I had my last Change Your Life teleclass last night. It's always bittersweet when something ends. It is a form of loss, yet I was blessed to meet such wonderful ladies and get to know them! A big thanks and hugs of gratitude to Anne Elise, Penny, Faithe, Carolyn, and Kim who showed great integrity and courage to share their thoughts and hearts week after week. You ladies rock!!

If you missed the final call last night, the replay number can be found at the CYL site I set up for the call. You can link to it at the links on the right side of this page.

Also, if you want to see all the homework exercises we had during the 15 weeks, please check that out on that site as well. I will be taking that information down at some point, so if you want to see it, don't wait too long.

Part of our discussion last night was about contentment. So as a Stress Less tip, I will leave you today with my quote from the call... "Contentment means practicing being present, not living in the past or future, but savoring the moment you are in right now."

Find some contentment today.
And if this is a challenge for you, I'd be happy to support you as your coach to learn how to bring more contentment into your life.

Have a beautiful day!
Sandy :)
P.S. And if anyone would like to share their thoughts about the CYL class, feel free to share it here.