3 Important Things I Learned After Taking Les Brown’s Advice And Going After My Dream
By: Mark Craven
Tags: Motivation, Success, Self Improvement, Dreams, Self

1. To Do Something Incredible You Have To Do Something Incredible

What I mean is this — when you see something you wish to achieve you will likely regard that thing as incredible. It will take you doing that which is incredible in order to achieve that which you believe to be incredible.

It takes incredible action (incredible, meaning something hard to believe) to achieve incredible results (incredible, again, meaning something hard to believe.) For example: Moving to Los Angeles was, in my opinion in 2016, something incredible. Quitting a full-time job and leaving my master’s program to pursue that dream of living in LA was the incredible action that would lead to the desired incredible result.

The lesson I picked up here is, incredible yields incredible.

2. Before You See The Universe Move, You Have To

I was standing on the precipice staring out into pure darkness. I had no idea what it would actually be like if I really did quit my job and drive across the country to California. I didn’t have another job set up. I didn’t have a place to live — I remember thinking to myself and planning that I’d likely be sleeping in my car in McDonald’s parking lots. There was really nothing before me that signaled that this might be a good idea.

So why did I do it?

Simply, my heart told me to.

After I hit send and submitted my resignation letter, thus sealing my fate to this decision to simply leave everything and take the greatest chance of my life… I got a phone call.

The call was my best friend’s parents asking me if I’d stay at a distant relative’s condo who had just passed away. They needed someone to keep the place lived-in until it went to market and sold. The condo was in Los Angeles California. I lived there for three months rent-free. There was also a pool and a jacuzzi. The family saw it as much of a favor to them as it clearly was for me.

All the best things you want are on the other side of what appears to be unscalable walls. They’re scaleable, they just look like they aren’t.

3. There Are No Ducks. There Are No Rows. You Just Have To Go!

There’s a point Les makes on his “Choosing Your Future” audio where he explains that you will never have your ducks in a row or your whole life put together before you finally do that big thing you really want to do. He put it in a way of utmost urgency where there isn’t even time to put your shoes on — YOU HAVE GOT TO GO AND GO NOW!

That’s the message that sank deep into my heart. That’s the message that should sink deep into your heart. There is no time to think that everything will be perfect and how you’d like it to be before you finally set sail. There is no time to think of all the reasons why something won’t work. There is no time to waste in changing the vision from a dream to your actual reality.

There is no time to waste.

Fear will keep you there because it’s Fear’s job to weigh you down in waiting with its deceptive, “Now is not the right time.” Now is the only time. So you really have no time other than now to take the leap.