{"id":9784,"date":"2018-09-07T01:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2018-09-07T01:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:27:01","slug":"dont-downgrade-your-dream-to-fit-your-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/dont-downgrade-your-dream-to-fit-your-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Downgrade Your Dream To Fit Your Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.”<\/span><\/p>\n

What is your dream?\u00a0 What is it you want to do with your life?\u00a0 What would you do if you were not afraid? If there were no limits or pressures or responsibility that were influencing to shy away from admitting your dreams –what would you dream of then? Yesterday when I did a mentoring session at the Amy Rees Anderson Academic Entrepreneurship program at USU we talked about what it is we are each passionate about achieving.<\/p>\n

Upon me first asking, the students around the table shared their educational and career path dreams, but each one of them would almost apologetically say that although their dream would have been ‘X’ they had modified to “Y” because they felt going after “X”was unrealistic to pursue given their station in life or other hurdles of time or money they faced, and so they had decided to choose something safe instead of going after their dreams.<\/p>\n

The problem with doing this Is that every time we come at something with the attitude of \u201cWell that dream will never work because of reason X,Y,Z our immediate thought will be okay, I better be more rational about it\u00a0 and settle for something less than\u00a0 my dream.<\/p>\n

There are two options when determining dream<\/p>\n

Ask the question “what field do you plan to pursue?” You will get an answer from them that have come as a result of them convincing themselves it is the only thing they should pursue given their circumstances and what they have been able to logically explain to themselves as what would make sense for them.<\/p>\n

But if you ask that same group the question, \u201cWhat would you do if there were no external factors to worry about, no family pressure, no money pressure, no pressure of any kind that would hinder you or limit you from saying exactly what it is you would be excited to do with your life:”\u2026.suddenly it becomes a very different answer. They were open and the boundaries came off…thats when the real answers came to light But even in that they would then go two steps further:<\/p>\n

Plan A does something like this:\u00a0 I have a dream \u2013 it\u2019s a big dream ;but I\u2019ve thought of a million reasons why this plan can\u2019t work so I\u2019ve decided to give up on my dream so I can take the safe approach that doesn\u2019t feel as risky.<\/p>\n

Plan B is more like this:\u00a0\u00a0 I have a dream \u2013 it\u2019s a big dream, and I am going to make it happen. Yes there are all kinds of pressures and questions that are going to make this hard, but I am going to just have to get creative so I can make this dream of mine happen one way or another.<\/p>\n

Students need to be reminded that it’s about deciding your dream, a dream without limits or hold backs, and once we know the dream the we begin figuring out the plan to make it happen!\u00a0 Charge forward. Progress to that dream. And when you hit bumps on the way don’t let those stop you, they are meant to be stepping stones that are leading you to success – and consider this thought:<\/p>\n

\u201cNever look back. If Cinderella went to pick up her shoe, she wouldn\u2019t have become a princess.\u201d<\/p>\n

`Amy Rees Andesnn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.” What is your dream?\u00a0 What is it you want to do with your life?\u00a0 What would you do if you were not afraid? If there were no limits or pressures or responsibility that were influencing to shy away from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19034,395,19037,501,500,46,16,224,163,19035,41,19036,29,65,545,14,149,19038],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-anderson","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-amy-rees-andrson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-cinderella","tag-confidence","tag-courage","tag-dont-downlgrade-yur-dream-to-fit-reality","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrerenerurshp","tag-god","tag-gratitude","tag-move-forward","tag-shoes","tag-success","tag-yeserday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9792,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions\/9792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}