Are you happy with your life? Are you living your Dream Life? If not, why not?
Living your authentic Dream Life is not the same as having a perfect life. It really means you are following your passion, achieving the goals you want out of life and spending your time and resources where you wish. In her book, “Drink Fine Wine…Ride Fine Horses – Leading the Life of your Dreams,” Tammy Rimes shares how she left the corporate business and government management worlds to live her Dream Life – owning a winery and raising show horses. With two successful wine tasting rooms, vineyards and horses, she rejoices that her cubicle days are behind her. Many people enter the wine tasting room and say “you are living the Dream Life!”
After hearing hundreds of people make that exclamation, Tammy decided to use her own story and provide a practical, no-nonsense guide to identifying, planning and living your own Dream Life. Sharing motivational stories and real-world setbacks, with a bit of humor thrown in, Tammy shares how to dust ourselves off and get back on the horse in order to ride into the reality of your Dream Life.
This fun and enlightening book will lead you to:
•identify your passion
•learn how to establish goals and tracking systems that work for you
•embrace the power of baby steps
•celebrate successes and have fun in the process
•prepare for Plan B…when things don’t always work like you planned or your “knight on a white horse” does not arrive and deliver.
Dreaming about a better life is not enough…it takes a plan and without one, you are just wishing that your dreams will come true. A funny thing happens when you start living a life. Sometimes the life takes over and you become part of a path that you don’t even recognize anymore. And the further you get down the path, the more you start to forget where it started, and where you were intending to go. What were you going to be when you grow up? And what are you doing now? Just look at your life and where you are now. Is this where you want to be? Is this the dream house, family, job, life that you always wanted? Do you have passion about what you do? Do you jump up in the morning, excited to start the day and get out there to live your life? If you are like most people, probably not. That’s why we are talking about identifying your passion as
you evaluate your life and develop your Dream Life.
If not now, when? If you found out that you only had one more year to live, would you say, “Forget bad timing; let’s just do it!” That’s the approach that you might want to take. Are you waiting for something? To pay off your mortgage? To get married? To get divorced? For your kids to grow older or move out? To make enough money? To be retired? Maybe the timing is to take smaller steps toward your Dream Life...biding your time until you can take bigger leaps. As long as you are moving forward, the time is always good to create the life of your dreams. It’s never too late to start…take that first step today!