Don't Quit Your Daydream!
How do you Crush the Sunday Scaries?
You listen to Lily Meola sing her song Daydream and take her words of wisdom to heart!
I went through two years of hell to write a book to help others avoid the critical mistakes I made during college.
I gave up on my dream of being a football coach and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering.
It was my father’s dream for me.
And a twenty-seven-year-old young lady summarized my book in only 265 words! My rough draft was 77,000 words and edited to just over 50,000.
Seventy-seven thousand words summarized in 265! Lily wrote the song herself! At 27 years old!
Please take a minute and watch the video below before moving on with this post.
Now, listen to her music video and read the words along the way.
Lily wrote the song when it seemed like her life was perfect. She wrote the song so others could FEEL her daydream. Then she lost her record deal to take care of her dying mother.
I can’t help but wonder why so many of us don’t live our daydreams. Even when we realize how short life can be.
If you are a parent, please don’t think you know better than your child what they should do with their life.
If you are a young adult, please trust what gives you goosebumps and make it your life's Purpose.
This song hits home with me on a personal level. My thirteen-year-old daughter has been taking singing lessons for the past three years. But, when I ask her what she wants to do with her life, she looks at the floor and mumbles, “I want to sing, but that’s such an outrageous goal, and I still have stage fright.”
I explained that it’s precisely how she should feel about the THING she wants to do.
Like Lily states in her song, “It ain’t big enough if it doesn’t scare the hell out of you.”
Trying to do something you already know you can, and everyone else is doing is too easy. If what you want out of life wasn’t hard, everyone would be doing it. The HARD part is what separates the amateurs from the pros.
Nobody ever said fulfilling our destiny would be easy, and it wouldn't be worth it if it was.
As parents, Steph and I desperately want Brenna to follow her passion. Last year, Brenna performed a song at her 7th-grade Talent Show. She followed that up with a live performance at a local restaurant with her singing coach.
Both received rave reviews, and Brenna got tipped $10 at the restaurant!
Last week, she stood onstage again at her 8th-grade talent show and was nervous as hell.
But she did it anyway.
Here is a quick video of Brenna doing what she loves to do.
We all need to learn from this. Brenna must continue overcoming her fear of being on stage if she hopes to follow her passion. We must overcome our fear of judgment and learn to follow what gives us goosebumps.
We need to learn to endure and not give up on our dreams.
We’ve set the stage for what it takes to overcome the Sunday Scaries.
In the following weeks, I'll do my best to help you follow a new path in life.
A path I call Against the Grain.
It’s a path toward becoming a Minimalist Entrepreneur and following YOUR Purpose.
It’s not easy, but it’s so worth it!
Until next week, remember that the function of Freedom is to free someone else!