Think of some date in the future.  What will you be doing?  What will you have achieved?  What will be your net worth?

Be specific now!

So many of us don’t really think about what it is that we really really want.  We may have some vague idea, and of course we all have dreams, but how often do we write those dreams off as being fanciful and out of our reach.  Haven’t you been told to be realistic?

I achieved a lifetime dream when I qualified to participate in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in the sport of beach volleyball.  My journey started when I was a 10 year old gymnast, inspired by the feats of Nadia Comenici in Montreal in 1976.  I decided then that I was going to be an Olympian and targeted the 1984 Olympics.  I was committed to my goal but fate intervened and back injury ended my gymnastics career in 1981, well short of my target.
I was coming to the end of high school and decided to study physiotherapy at University so that I could still go to the Olympic games, albeit as a physiotherapist.  That seemed a likely progression as I graduated and worked my way into a sports physiotherapy career.
However my volleyball, which I had started playing in high school, started to produce results and Australian representation.  Volleyball became my profession and when, in 1993, beach volleyball was announced as an Olympic sport for Atlanta 1996, my dream of becoming an Olympian was revived.
The journey continued to be marked by highs and lows, including many losses of partners to other players.  I moved interstate from Perth to Sydney to Gold Coast chasing the dream.  I failed to qualify for Atlanta and figured I would just need to continue playing towards 2000.  I endured more partnerships changes, a decision to continue playing when I almost felt like giving it all up, and a move back to Perth – all lured by that dream that would not go away – to be an Olympian.
So I did it.  It took me 25 years to realise my goal, but creating that goal so long ago provided me with the pathway to achieve what many believed I wouldn’t.

I now realise that I had made the journey more difficult by having a limiting belief that it was meant to be tough and that I had to do it on my own.  The lack of support at times was very difficult to endure.

If only I knew then what I know now.  That I could have achieved the same goal, and even grander goals, and achieved them easily, just by believing and attracting that into my life.

You see, I dreamed of being an Olympian – the Gold Medallists dreamed of being Gold Medallists.



Are you completely on track to realise your dreams or is there something holding you back from reaching your full potential?  Negative emotions and limiting decisions prevent us tapping into who we really are and accessing all the powerful resources we all have within.