Your dreams are not made of clouds.
Your dreams are not made of pixie dust.
Your dreams are made of CRAP!
Dirty, smelly, inconvenient, annoying, scary, crap.
Often we see all the miles and miles between us and our dreams as a problem. You think, "Aw man if I could just get past this crap, then I'd be happy." And you sit and dream about magically floating over all the crap you don't want to deal with.
Floating over the crap never works, because you need the crap to make your dreams real.
Your dreams don't come true simply by arriving on the other side. They come true when you stop dreaming about them and start digging through all the crap you need to manifest them.
Your great relationship isn't in the perfect partner. It's in digging into the crap of talking about your life, deciding where to go to dinner, and giving your partner reassurance that yes indeed they are hot.
Your great small business isn't in finding the perfect customers. It's in digging through all the crap of bad web design, poorly thought branding, and missteps in the marketplace until you begin to fully understand what drives you to build a business and how you can truly serve the world you live in.
Your great new career isn't about finding a job that magically fulfills you. It's in leaving your comfortable place at a big company, being scared to death, floundering, and searching until you find the work that speaks to your heart like nothing else.
Intentions are not the answer, wishing isn't the answer, manifesting isn't the answer, the answer is crap.
When you dig into the crap of your life, you find all the parts of yourself you haven't faced and the corners of your heart you have locked away. Digging into the crap sucks, but it makes you grow.
You become a wiser, more compassionate and more totally kick ass version of who you truly are. The crap cleanses you, and when you get through it, even your dreams are different.
So now's the time. Find the crap and dig in. It's not pretty, but it's never going to get any prettier than it is right now either.
What are you waiting for?
Toku is a mindfulness expert, speaker, and coach. He lived for over two years at a Zen monastery and now helps passionate people who are good at what they do, be the best at what they do. This post was originally published on MindFitMove. and Good Men Project.
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