“If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

What are the dreams of your soul?  What is the work that you long to do that will leave your mark on the world?  What holds you back from fulfilling those dreams?  It is not every person who is fortunate enough to find a way to fulfill her soul dreams and be paid for that work.  Often we are paid to do jobs that are the means to fund our dreams, not to carry them out.  This is not a bad thing.  It is rare to find work that expresses what we long to bring to our world — what our soul desires to express as uniquely our own; but if we are to fulfill our dreams and not only our obligations, we must remember to use the resources we earn to pursue our dreams.

Too often, because we are not compensated for the work of our soul, we devalue it.  We tell ourselves that we cannot afford the time or the money to bring our dreams to life.  We place them far down the list of ways to use our resources, and we lose who we truly are in a jumble of distractions that soon command our attention.  What is it that frightens us about focusing our intention on bringing our dreams to life?  What is it that causes us to make three backup plans for every dream, just in case we fail?  What would our lives be like if we truly committed to our personal power and let it burst to life without worrying about a backup plan?

What are the dreams of your soul?  What can you do to commit to them — to be “all in” for whatever it is that expresses your own unique contribution to the world?  How would you be transformed if you decided today to bring your dreams to life?

What are we waiting for.  All in?