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How to live the Celeb Life

July 2, 2013 by cam

Love it or hate it, becoming a celebrity pretty much guarantees your spot as a role model. Many complain about it, some embrace it and others just shrug it off. One thing is for sure; kids gravitate to celebrities and emulate them – good and bad. What is it about these people that make our kids AND us want to be just like them? Money, fame and celebrity all play a part. But at the end of the day, these are people who have followed their dreams. That’s it! It’s following your dreams that make people want what you have and want to be like you.

“If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. – Vin Diesel

Following your dreams and eventually living your dreams will make you successful. It doesn’t have to be success on the level of your biggest celebrity – but it could. Your success will come because it’s your dream, it’s what you love and you’ll work your butt off because you love it. Isn’t that how the real celebrities do it?! It kinda goes like this: dream àwork à work à dream fulfilled. Dream some more à work à work. The difference is your adoring fans are your mini-me’s. Awesome.

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For me, pursuing my dreams is important because of the type of role model I want to be for my kids. There are a couple of benefits to going for your dreams, as a mom:

1 – It teaches kids to go after what they want. I dream up pretty lofty goals for myself with an attitude of why not? I’ve reached some of those goals, others I’m still working on.

2 -It teaches them that nothing is impossible. Of course, that’s not to say that it will be easy but with hard work, their dreams are SO possible.

3 – Watching dreams unfold gives a sense of accomplishment. It’s one thing to talk about something but to actually be about it and watch it happen… that’s bliss. Why wouldn’t a kid want to emulate that?!

4 – Goal setting is fun! I may be an odd bird but I think setting a crazy, outrageous goal is fun and challenging. It’s even more fun when you reach that goal. It’s empowering when you realize you can do things that people tell you are impossible.

So tell me, do you have a dream you think is impossible?

Has Your Dream Expired?

June 18, 2013 by cam

What if I told you that your dreams don’t expire? What if you just found out that you’re not too old to make your dreams come true? Well, guess what? All of the above is TRUE!

For a while, I thought that I’d missed out on doing the things I really wanted to do. For years I’d talked myself out of following my dreams. My reasons were legitimate… to me. I felt like what I wanted couldn’t be done. I was sure that I was I didn’t have the right connections, I was getting to old. I had convinced myself that what I wanted was just plain impossible.

What I found out is that I had been not only lying to myself but I’d also been talking myself out of my dreams. I wasn’t giving anyone else a chance to shoot me down. I was doing a really good job of kicking my dreams to the curb all on my own. Why is that? I’m not alone in this. For some reason, we are our own worst enemy on things like this.

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Sure, in my 20’s I was a go getter and all about making it happen. I had accomplished some pretty cool things. I wanted to write for a newspaper – I did that. I wanted to work in television. I did that by getting my start in local television. I wanted to work in entertainment television and work for a network. Done and done. My twenties saw me tackle these things and dive into a new city jobless determined to hustle my way to the top. Somehow, I made it happen. Then, I think I began to get scared. I felt like I had reached my limit. No girl could really ask for more. Right? Wrong!

Once I had children, my thoughts shifted a bit. Originally, I think I believed that having kids would really bring my dreams to a screeching halt! To my surprise, I found the opposite to be true. I began to dream new dreams. I began to dream up things that were bigger than what I thought I wanted for myself. My kids had given me the motivation to really get out there. Publish a book, start a blog, start a business – why not? Becoming a mom made me even more determined to not only dream but follow those dreams. What good is a dream if that’s all it is? (tweet this) I feel like since I have two little people watching my every move, it’s up to my husband and I to show them what’s possible. Instead of just SAYING reach for the sky, how about I show them HOW to tickle the stars? It occurred to me that I can’t tell them to follow their dreams if I don’t follow mine. Well, I can but why not lead by example?

Tell me what would make you decide your dreams were worth following?

If EVERY Dream Came True…

April 23, 2013 by cam

Not too long ago, I was watching Behind the Music on VH1 and the artist featured was Ne-yo.

He had a pretty cool story about his struggle to get into the music business and life struggles overall. It’s always inspiring to see people come from less than ideal circumstances and make it. Whatever that “it” is. He was also promoting his latest album at the time. It’s called R.E.D. I hadn’t given the title much thought before. All the promotion for it seemed to be centered around the color red.

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During his Behind the Music episode he revealed that the name of his album is actually an acronym. R.E.D. stands for realizing every dream. He went on to explain that every dream he’d had for himself when he dreamed of being in the music business had actually come true. Then there were things in addition that he’d never even dreamed of. I thought that was pretty inspiring.

The fact that every dream he’d had has come true means that any good thing to happen in his career on top of what’s already happened is just more icing on a pretty fantastically iced up cake. It got me to thinking about my own dreams. Some of my dreams have definitely come true but not ALL of them. I couldn’t help but wonder what it must feel like to realize every last one of my dreams.

My guess is you then I’d be forced to dream even greater things for myself. Sounds like a hard knock life, huh? Not even!

Tell me, what are you doing to realize your dreams? Can you imagine if they ALL came true?