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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Born to Dream: Stop Wanting. Stop Wishing. Start Dreaming by Rollan A. Roberts II

Born to Dream: Stop Wanting. Stop Wishing. Start Dreaming by Rollan A. Roberts II






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Table of Content
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Point A to Point B
Chapter 2: It's Just the  Beginning
Chapter 3: Lifestyle Architecture
Chapter 4: Make Up  Your  Mind
Chapter 5: Do This - Get That
Chapter 6: Once Upon a Time
Chapter 7 Vaporized Dreams
Chapter 8: Out of Breath before the Finish Line
Chapter 9: Your Defining Moment
Chapter 10: Life Support
Chapter 11: Making Your Dreams Come True
Chapter 12: Keeping the Dream Alive
Chapter 13: The Reality of Reality
Chapter 14: Cost Doesn't Matter
Chapter 15: FantasyLand
Chapter 16: That's Nothing
Chapter 17: Winging It
Chapter 18: When the End Isn't the End
Chapter 19: When the Dream Dries Up
Chapter 20: Power of Personal Affirmation


--Start--
Chapter 1: Point A to Point B
* Decide right now that you will not settle for good, knowing you were destined for greatness.
* You will pursue; you will engage; you will confront; you will move on; you will keep going; you will not quit; you will not stop; you will not give up until you have achieved the dream that lies within you.
* What you won't do for money, fame, and fortune, you will do for a dream that consumes you.
* Most people are too busy chasing money instead of their dreams!

Chapter 2: It's Just the Beginning
* Dreams aren't merely a wish list, just as everything you want is not your dream.
* A dream is not what you want to have but who you want to be.
* Our responsibility is to keep improving upon the success that we have had or that has been set by others.
* All the money and wealth this world has to offer can't console the person within whom greatness lies but has not yet blossomed.
* Dreams should be in sight and out of reach.

Chapter 3: Lifestyle Architecture
1. What are you really passionate about in life?
2. What bothers you?
3. What would you do or be if time and money were no object?
4. What is your purpose in life?
5. What are your natural abilities?
6. What are you complimented on most often?
7. What would you do if you knew you only had one week to live?
8. When do you feel the most successful and alive?
9. What  circumstances in life are unique to you, and how can you use those to your benefit?
10. What do you want your legacy to be?
* Mike Murdock has said, "What bothers you most is an indication of the problem you were created to solve."
* You will realize that your dream is not a thing but is actually the fulfilment and full embodiment of your purpose.
* There is something unique about you that is not common in mankind.
* Live for today and plan for tomorrow.

Chapter 4: Make Up  Your  Mind
* Dreams are the full embodiment of the fulfilment of the purpose for which you were created.
* It doesn't matter if you were planned or unplanned, wanted or unwanted; you were created with a destiny in mind.
* Being successful doesn't mean every deal I do is profitable, every business I buy or build is a great success story, or every stock I buy doubles in value overnight.
* The problem with pity parties is that you're the only one that shows up and no one brings present!

Chapter 5: Do This - Get That
1. Define Your Dream
2. Write it down
3. Create a plan with specific objective and timelines
4. Be accountable to someone.
5. Take action daily
6. Develop yourself
7. Keep your dream alive
- 10 specific things to keep your dream alive:-
i. Invest time with likeminded people.
ii. Keep it in front of you.
iii. Take care of yourself.
iv. Write it down.
v. Read an inspirational book.
vi. Attend a seminar relating to your purpose and dream.
vii. Associate rewards to your goals to make your dream tangible.
viii. Take action.
ix. Be accountable to a successful mentor who is where you want to be.
x. Create and speak aloud a personal success affirmation daily.
Reflections
* If you don't write it down, it's a pipe dream, not a dream.
* Commit to your dream and give it everything you have.
* Don't die with your dreams still in you.
* Fear and faith are the same thing: believing something will happen that you can't see.
* Tie your goals to tangible rewards to keep your dream alive!
* Dream building attaches tangible rewards to personal accomplishment.
* Customers don't pay for effort; they pay for execution.
* Don't take a vacation from your dreams

Chapter 6: Once Upon a Time
* Just because the vast majority of people do not live their dream doesn't mean that dreams don't come true. It's that thy don't understand how to make their dreams come true.
* Slaves see the rope as a noose, but prisoners see the rope as a way of escape.
* Everything you see or want is someone's reality.
* If you are aligned and in tune with your life's purpose, then your dreams and desires will be visions of what you are to become, do, an achieve.

Chapter 7 Vaporized Dreams
* When you dream, it is with intent and takes great amounts of effort and work to control your mind and thoughts.
* I'm not interested in what you hope will happen; I'm interested in what you believe will happen and willing to make happen.
* Part of becoming a winner is getting to this place over and over and over again and somehow rebounding from it.
* Don't deprive yourself of living life to the fullest and living the lifestyle you were meant to live by dreaming little dreams.

Chapter 8: Out of Breath before the Finish Line
* Not reaching your dreams should not be an option.
* You've got to stay in the game to keep swinging.
* Your dreams fail to take light because you keep stopping halfway down the runway.
* Your dreams will demand every ounce of energy and wherewithall you can possibly muster.

Chapter 9: Your Defining Moment
The author stated 27 Reasons people quit pursuing their dreams:-  **Note: Only 9 is mentioned as the other 18 reasons are not in this chapter.1.They don't want to be disappointed
2. It doesn't seem possible
3. They don't want to get hurt
4. Negative self-talk
5. Unexpected circumstances
6. Doubt
7. It's easier-path of least resistance
8. The dream isn't big enough
9. Undefined dream
* Doubt doesn't barge in; it creeps in
* If you believe in your dream enough, then it desn't matter how many failures you experience; it's not over until you in.
* If your dream seems impossible right now, refocus your mind and attention on smaller, specific action steps in the direction of your ultimate dream.
* Chasing your dreams will be painful at times because there is a price to pay.

Chapter 10: Life Support
- continuation-
10. The dream isn't tied to life's purpose
a. Would you do the same thing and as much of what you do today if you were not paid to do it?
b. Will your dreams come true if you accomplish your purpose?
c. Did you determine your purpose prior to defining your dream?
d. Does the realization of your dream help people outside of yourself?
e. Do your dreams support and enhance your purpose in life?
f. Are you known for your dreams or your purpose?
g. Are you as passionate about your purpose as you are your dream?
11. Focused on things
12. Don't want to pay the price
13. Too busy
14. It's countercultural to dream
15. Poor self-image
16. Broken focus
17. Get bored with the dream
18. Rejection
19. Comparing to other people
20. Past Successes
21. Impatience
22. Past failures
23. Don't think it's important or think it doesn't make a difference
24. Don't have a plan
25. Time consuming
26. Don't want to commit or be accountable for it
27. Not enough self-discipline
* Fully rely on God to make you and build you into the person he needs you to be fulfill his purpose and will in your life.
* Every worthy accomplishment and success one achieves appears impossible somewhere on the journey.
* When you accept your dreams as your mission and destiny, there is a peace and calmness that will carry you through during difficult times without always questioning if you are doing the right thing.
* Your purpose should be well known, but your dreams should not.
* What you know in the light, don't question in dark. If it was the right decision in the good times, stick with it during the hard times.
* If you get battered and don't get bitter, you'll get better!
* Center your dream around your purpose and not on a material object.
* Thinking like a winner doesn't mean that you always win.
* Much of success is waiting. Be patient without being lazy!
* To do anything successful in life, it requires a high level of personal discipline.

Chapter 11: Making Your Dreams Come True
* Dreams come true by developing as a person, working diligently and consistently, maintaining the right spirit, heart, and mind by controlling your thoughts, giving everything to it that you have been given, and in time.
*  Belief and persistence have helped many a dreamer live their dreams.
* You have to believe in your cause, and you have to believe that your success is not rooted in yourself, but is the culmination of other people in your life and the Almighty workig in you to accomplish His will.
* There are people who cannot read the words on this page that have every opportunity for great success  because they believe in their dream, don't know the meaning of the word no, and have the persistence, determination, and will never to quit.

Chapter 12: Keeping the Dream Alive
* With each level of success you achieve on your plan, you should attach a tangible symbol of the accomplishment of that dream. Belief and persistence have helped many a dreamer live their dreams.
* You need to find something that you can get excited about that will encourage you to make the next phone call, send the next e-mail, go to the next success conference, read the next book, listen to the next audio, close the next deal and become fear and rejection proof!
* Continue to define, clarify, and explore tangible symbols that you can attach to your goals.

Chapter 13: The Reality of Reality
* What is in the heart and mind of mankind will soon be reflected on the outside.
* Since thought is the only real and tangible thing from which anything is created and dreams are simply a string of real and tangible, positive thoughts, your dreams can come true if that is what you keep before your mind's eye.
* The more you see, touch, feel, and experience your dream, the more your mind will dwell on it and lead you to the resources necessary to accomplish it.
* Where you are is who you are

Chapter 14: Cost Doesn't Matter
* There comes a point in all of our lives where we look back and say, "I'm glad I did it" or "I wish I had."
* I will do today what other me won't so I can do tomorrow what other men can't.
* I will live like no other so I can live like not other!
* Your success is not measured by what you accumulate on earth, but by how you fulfilled the purpose for which you were created.
* Your dreams haven given to you because you are the only one who can make them come true.
* Dreams are not about what you have or don't have, it's about who you become as you move toward  dream that is bigger than yourself.

Chapter 15: FantasyLand
* Dreams without action are nothing more than mystical fairy tales.
* Does your body tell you what to do or do you tell your body what you're going to do?
* The answer to your dreams is the rock-solid work ethic, dogged determination, and unwavering faith and belief that you are pursuing a much greater cause than just a tangible object.

Chapter 16: That's Nothing
5 Attributes of a dreamer:-
1. Dreamers are passionate about what they do.
2. Dreamers have a sense of urgency with a spirit of expectancy.
3. Dreamers don't quit when tough times come
4. Dreamers believe they have what it takes to achieve their dreams.
5. Dreamers control their thoughts
* Taking what's most important to your family and making it the most important thing to you is what makes dreams come true.
* There are many successful people who simply don't realize how great they can become if they'd only learn to say, "That's nothing!"
* It is your responsibility - no, it is your duty- to look the circumstances that are getting you discouraged and keeping you down in the eye and say, "That's nothing!"
* Dreamers believe that success lies within themselves and not in the circumstances of life.

Chapter 17: Winging It
* Most people think the opposite of security is risk. Truth is, the opposite of security is opportunity
* Choose to buy your freedom by working hard as an entrepreneur instead of through forty or fifty years as an employee.
* The tougher you are on yourself, the easier life is on you; the easier you are on yourself, the harder life is on you.
* You need a dream that's tied to your purpose and not just a reward.
*Don't Just wing your life; maximize your capacity and live your life on purpose!

Chapter 18: When the End Isn't the End
* The excitement and power of dream is in the pursuit of the dream, not just in te attainment of the dream.
* Retirement isn't an age; it's being free to do what you want to do with your life!
* Risk is only risk if you have something to lose.

Chapter 19: When the Dream Dries Up
* The goals you set to accomplish your dreams should be in sight and out of reach.
* Each day is either a building day, battling day, or banner day. Most days are building days.
* Don't play it safe just to win.
* Delight in the process and the work of becoming great.
* The obsession is not so much in winning the gold medals in life, but it is in mastering the discipline, skills and techniques that you have chosen to pursue.
* Failure is not in losing; it is in not trying!

Chapter 20: Power of Personal Affirmation

* The Dreamer's Creed
"I am fearfully and wonderfully as a creative being in the image of God and have been euipped with the power, belief, and strength to succeed in living a happy, healthy, wealthy lifestyle full of life, vitality and energy.  I am hardworking, discerning, diligent, prudent, focused, challenged, motivated, and patient and am a good steward of my time, money and energy. I am blessed and highly favoured winner that attracts unlimited riches, wealth, and prosperity into my life so that I may give freely to others and worthy causes. I will honour God with my success, for God's wisdom is the key to my sucess. This is my day. Today is the day God will give me a financial breakthrough. Today's miracle will change my life forever and set me on a course to riches and wealth. I will not give up, let up, or shut up until I'm taken up.  My dream is a direct fulfilment of my purpose, and I cannot and will not shirk or relinquish my God-given duty to pursue my God-given dream every day with every ounce of energy I have.
* My Story (the Author's background)

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