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JOHN PAUL DEJORIA

Success to me is not how much money you have; it’s how well you do what it is you do. Whether you’re a janitor or whether you’re a businessperson or whether you’re an aviator, it’s what you do and how well you do it dictates how successful you are.

Big Dreams and Little Dreams

ANASTASIA SOARE

There’s nothing wrong with small dreams. Big dreams are for people who are consciously willing to risk everything they have in life. There are small dreams, there are big dreams, and there are crazy dreams. It takes a certain personality to go so crazy.

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

Most people don’t have big dreams in life. They don’t have the confidence. They think all of the exciting stuff is done by other people. But having big dreams is important, and it does make life exciting. If you don’t have big dreams, big dreams can’t come true.

ANASTASIA SOARE

People need to understand how much they want to give to get. Everything in life is like a bank account. Whatever you put in, you will get out. Don’t put little and expect to get big. It is not going to happen.

Someone might start out with a really big dream, while someone else might start out with a small dream that becomes far bigger than they could have imagined. Life seems to call us to a dream that is a size we can handle at the time.

G. M. RAO

Little dreams, like pieces in a puzzle, will open out the larger dream. Initially, to even dream is difficult, but it’s important to know that Mahatma Gandhi never started off with any big dream. He just kept pushing the limits of what he wanted to happen, and bingo, the biggest thing happened.

When you find your dream and make it come true, all the other smaller dreams you have for your life come true too. One of my dreams in my twenties was to live in a different country. I wanted the adventure and challenge of living in a country that was unfamiliar to me, and experiencing the excitement of a different culture from the one I knew. When my dream of
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came true, my work required me to move from Australia to the United States, and so a dream I had put aside came true at the same time as my big dream. Dreams are attached to each other, and once one comes, all the rest will follow.

Whether you’ve found your dream or you have no idea what your dream is, there is one extremely simple piece of advice that if followed, will positively lead you to your dream.

Joseph Campbell was one of the world’s most well respected mythologists, and through his insightful teachings he gave us a simple yet profound message for our life:

“Follow Your Bliss.”

These three words are the compass for your life; they tell you what direction to point toward in every moment. Bliss is how you feel when you do something you absolutely love to do, and it is a thread that’s connected to your dreams. So when you follow your bliss you also find your dreams, and fulfill your reason for being here.

Nick Woodman knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, but he didn’t have a clue in what area of business. While he was following his bliss surfing with his friends on a trip to Australia and Indonesia, Nick kept thinking how great it would be to have a camera that could capture the action of him and his friends surfing. That one little thought was the seed of an idea that became the GoPro camera, which made Nick Woodman one of the world’s youngest billionaire entrepreneurs.

Bliss Leads to Bliss

There’s an irresistible and powerful quality that radiates from you when you’re in bliss and doing what you love, and that powerful quality draws more bliss to you. Even though you might not be able to see your dream yet, when you’re in bliss you are on the very path that will lead you to it.

LAYNE BEACHLEY

Make the choice to do something that makes you feel good on a daily basis. How many people do that? How many people identify what makes them feel good and then commit that time to themselves on a daily basis?

You are following your bliss when you make a decision to do something that makes you feel really good every day. It could be as simple as sitting in a park or a garden and relaxing with your feet up, or buying a cup of your favorite coffee and instead of drinking it on the run, sitting down, taking a breath, and just watching the world pass by. No matter how insignificant or small it might seem, each day make sure to do something that is your idea of bliss. Before you know it, you will be inspired with other blissful things you can do, and, from just doing that one thing, you will soon have a hold of a thread that’s going to take you to your dreams and to a far better life.

PETER FOYO

It’s a cliché, but I believe it’s really important to live your life to the absolute fullest.

MICHAEL ACTON SMITH

Along with our family and our relationships, the job we do is one of the most important parts of our life. It’s certainly somewhere you spend most of your waking hours, so it should be something enjoyable; it should be something that you are passionate about and that you care about.