Don't settle for mediocrity, and don't settle for just getting by. The universe wants to give you everything in abundance and wants to give you the life that you dream of. So many people, including myself, at certain times settled for a nine to five job, getting the bills paid, and watching their dreams fade.

Don't be afraid to fail, or fear that you are asking for too much. Ask, put it out there, visualize it, and keep dreaming about it, keep working towards it until it becomes a reality.

Just because you are dreaming big, doesn't mean that you don't have to work your tail off. You do have to work. You have to create opportunities for yourself, you have to listen to the holy spirit who can give you guidance as how to do something, who to meet, or where to do it. Then you have to go and do it, meet the person that you need to meet, do the work, raise the money, follow up, encourage yourself, keep working and perfecting yourself in your craft, keep

challenging yourself.

Finally when what you have been dreaming about is presented to you, you have to receive it. Don't hesitate when opportunities come your way. Don't talk defeat to yourself and say that you are not worthy, etc. This is just one of these mental loops. Receive and receive big.

Dreams are done in little steps. You mount each step before you get up to the gold medal platform. Your step leads you to be in the right place for the next part to be given to you. Receive! Step up!! You need to learn to recognize the right moments and the help that is given to you along the way. You need to discern within yourself when something is part of your dream. or when or when you are being misled. Listening within to the Spirit of the Light will keep you on the right path towards your dream. You have to recognize when, even though something seems very little, it could be a very significant step for your dream to become a reality. You have to trust that prompting and leading.

But in following your dream, you still need to keep your discipline, your purity of heart and mind, and your childlike spirit. When you have wealth, and your dreams are fulfilled, it is also easy to lose everything by being corrupted by greed, drugs, alcohol and addictions, arrogance, waste, and impure living.

You need to do everything with balance. You need to maintain balance in your dreams and your life. You need to have gratitude for the places that you have reached and the help that you received along the way. Remember, no one does it alone. God and the universe helped you each step of the way. Family and friends, and other people helped you, and believed in you, and gave to your dream. God and the universe create abundance also so that you can share that great fortune with those that have less than you. But giving also needs to be done with balance. To determine when you give, and to whom you give, you need to seek the Holy Spirit's guidance.

Everything is interrelated.

One of the biggest elements to achieving your dreams is to trust the universe that you are being led to the right person or place, that God wants the absolute best for your life and wants you to reach the biggest dreams that you can imagine. Dream big, talk big, and work for it. Trust that God really wants you to live your dream and be very happy. Keep yourself open to new promptings, and new things, because you never know where they might lead you. God is a god of abundance and wants you to succeed, and want you do what makes you happy and joyful.

If you achieve your dreams with balance, and live your life with balance, you will always maintain that joyful place. Don't get caught up with the status of something, or the designer names. In five years or twenty years from now, those things won't mean anything to you or anybody. How you lived your life, for yourself, your family and children-- that is what matters. What you gave, how you encouraged, or who was with you at that moment is important. At the end of your life can you look back and say, ?I did everything that I wanted to do. I really enjoyed this life, and the people that were here. I did well.?

Look around you and you will see someone dreams that have long since become real. Walt Disney was a man with a great dream and vision. Disney Land, Disney World, and the Epcot Center were some of his dreams. Millions of visitors pass through his properties every day and share his vision and dreams. They live it. Famous Amos created some of the most delicious chocolate chip cookies in America. He marketed his cookies himself. First he sold them to his friends and family, and then he began to market the cookies on a bigger scale. The demand became so great, that I'm sure he had to hire several people, and he certainly achieved millionaire status. Mary Kay Cosmetics was created by one woman who sold her products door to door; now the world over knows the name Mary Kay Cosmetics. Microsoft Office is known around the world and it is packaged on nearly 80% of computers sold. Steve Jobs started Apple computer in his garage. Now the Mac computer is probably the second most popular computer in the world.

Whatever you like to do, whatever you like to work with, can become a huge success. Passion helps to launch dreams. You have to put your heart and soul into it. You have to work to break through. But once you do you will have achieved the whole world. A singer can sing all over the world. Gourmet Food can be shipped all over the world. Skin care products are known by women and men anywhere. Live it, dream it, put it out there, but do it, don't wait. This day is gone tomorrow.copyright 2006 Yoga Kat