{"id":4827,"date":"2011-08-17T18:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:03:46","slug":"not-afraid-to-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/not-afraid-to-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Afraid to Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, Alice Barry did a delightful teleclass to celebrate the anniversary of her Joyfully Jobless life. The title of her program was 7 Lessons I\u2019ve Learned in 7 Years in Business.<\/em><\/p>\n

She told us that she learned her first lesson at a seminar Nick Williams and I did in Las Vegas called Creating an Inspired Business<\/em>. What was that lesson that launched her?<\/p>\n

Start where you are. To hear Alice tell it, those words served as a mantra and she began moving forward putting her ideas into action.<\/p>\n

Today, her business, Entertaining the Idea, helps others put their ideas into action, too.<\/p>\n

Alice isn’t the only person I know who’s building a dream, of course.<\/p>\n

Liz deNesnera flew from her home in New Jersey to Los Angeles yesterday. She\u2019s spending the week in California taking her Voice Over business to the next level. Happily, she also took time to spend several hours with me.<\/p>\n

Like Alice, I first met Liz in person in a Creating an Inspired Business<\/em> event in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Liz had been a longtime subscriber to Winning Ways<\/em> newsletter and had attended a Making a Living Without a Job<\/em> seminar in New York, but this was the first time we\u2019d officially met. “You’re not just a name on a mailing label anymore,” I joked after we’d become acquainted.<\/p>\n

Since then, I\u2019ve received excited calls from Liz when she wants to report on the growth of her business; \u00a0it was a real treat being able to get the latest update in person.<\/p>\n

As usual, she was bubbling with excitement over the continuing growth of Hire Liz<\/a> which puts her talents to work in both English and French.<\/p>\n

Another former seminar participant has also been on my radar lately. I first met Dyan deNapoli<\/a> when she attended Valerie Young\u2019s Work at What You Love<\/em> seminar in Northampton, MA.\u00a0 Dyan was wearing her passion for penguins on her sleeve\u2014and on her cute VW Beetle.<\/p>\n

Her passion has brought her wonderful opportunities including lecturing on an Antarctic cruise and authoring The Great Penguin Rescue<\/em><\/strong>. Dyan is also the first person I\u2019ve known to be featured as a speaker at TED Talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Valerie Young. I\u2019ve known her longer than the other three and still remember our first conversation when she called me after attending Making a Living Without a Job<\/em> to discuss an idea she had to help corporate employees change course.<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the years, she\u2019s helped thousands of people do just that through her coaching and seminars. But that was only part of her entrepreneurial endeavors.<\/p>\n

Valerie became a popular speaker on the Impostor Syndrome. One day a publisher came calling, and in mid-October her book, The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women<\/a><\/em><\/strong>,<\/a> will be published. It\u2019s a stunner.<\/p>\n

I was honored to see the manuscript after she invited me to write a testimonial for the book. From the first chapter, I knew this was more than an ordinary business or personal growth book.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, another big accolade came in for the still unavailable book when she learned that Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em> is giving it a starred review. Valerie wasn’t the only one who found that exciting!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about all four of these inspiring women and what they have in common. Obviously, they\u2019re all lifelong learners. They\u2019ve also all patiently followed their dreams and created their own unique enterprises.<\/p>\n

But the thing that just hit me about them all is that I\u2019ve known all of them before<\/strong> any of these achievements occurred.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s anything more inspiring than knowing real life dreamers who are also doers, I don\u2019t know what it is. Their achievements add to the joy in our lives\u2014and urge us to stretch farther.<\/p>\n

It’s also easy to forget that when we see personal achievement, there was a time when it didn’t exist, but all successful people have a Before and After story.<\/p>\n

That’s probably why writer Nikki Giovanni warns us, “Do not surround yourself with people who do not have dreams.” The After story is even sweeter when we were present Before it happened.<\/p>\n

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Working on some wild dreams of your own? Join me on the Idea Safari<\/a> and collect some dreambuilding tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, Alice Barry did a delightful teleclass to celebrate the anniversary of her Joyfully Jobless life. The title of her program was 7 Lessons I\u2019ve Learned in 7 Years in Business. She told us that she learned her first lesson at a seminar Nick Williams and I did in Las Vegas called Creating…<\/p>\n

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