How To Commit To Your Audacious Dreams

My Proven Practice For Committing To Audacious Dreams!

 

Maybe you know you want to live a BIGGER life but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you feel like you have so many dreams that it’s impossible to choose one. Over a decade ago, I knew I wanted a bigger life and had so many dreams that I couldn’t choose just one.

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Here’s what I did to commit to my audacious dreams:

 

-Get a giant marker board or Post-It.

-Write down every single dream or desire without editing out the ones you think are absurd.

-Cross out the ones that aren’t that important to you or are actually desires that have been placed upon you by someone else or society.

-Circle the 3 most important ones.

-If you could choose only 1 of those 3, which would it be?

-Commit to doing one thing that embodies that goal every single day of the year.

What I circled and committed to was “Yoga”. There was no goal to become a teacher, start a business, or become enlightened. I committed to this one *thing* and every time an opportunity came up that was not yoga, I knew my answer was no.

Kristen, do you want to run a marathon? No.
Do you want to take a knitting class? No.
Do you want to try Ashtanga? Yes.

The Difference A Year Makes

 

One year later, I had a dedicated Astanga practice. I also completed by 200-hour yoga teacher training certification and was teaching yoga in several early childhood centers. Most importantly, I changed. I became a stronger, aligned, and more confident version of myself.

The key to this practice is to treat it as an experiment and remain in a state of wonder. There are no goals attached. Remember a bee wasn’t engineered to fly, but it does and you can, too.

I wonder who you will be one year later when you commit to your audacious dreams.