Live Your Dreams
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Get up. Get going! Make a plan and make it happen. What are you waiting for? Get off the couch of your life and start living the life you were born to live today. This book is for you. It was written to guide you down the path to the life that you yearn for. It is designed to help you find the steps and take them motivating you into a new day and a new life.
It will catapult your forward into your dream world. We give up too easy. We stop trying. Often we succeed in some areas of our lives and fail miserably in others. We accept mediocrity and believe that this is the best that we can do. It is not. We can do much better. Start today.
Bethany Williams
Bethany is a published, executive mother of 3. She dedicates her work and efforts towards the hardworking executives everywhere that are yearning for answers and a better way of approaching the success that they desire. Her message is simple; you control your destiny as well as your earnings.Her first book, “Winning Strategies for Women”, provides practical, step by step advice for excelling in business, including strategies for keeping your job, receiving the best assignments, finding a job and keeping it in a tough market, getting promotions and additional pay, and receiving more recognition in the process.She learned the art of business survival as a single working mother. Widowed at a young age, she struggled to advance in male dominated companies in an effort to provide for her children. She put herself through college and secured top level positions in some of the nation’s leading organizations (GE, IDX, & Perot Systems Corporation). Today she works as an Executive for a healthcare technology firm and spends a significant amount of her waking moments living her passion by speaking on the topic of advancing women in business, volunteering her mentoring skills to hardworking executives, developing stellar personal brands, and working diligently to encourage others to live the life they were born to live. She writes for her popular motivational blog 'Winning Strategies', read by thousands for motivation and encouragement.She lives in Dallas with two of her three children. Her daughter is a graduate of UNT in interdisciplinary studies from the School of Education and teaches school in the Dallas area.She can be contacted via her website or blog.
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Live Your Dreams - Bethany Williams
Life is an adventure. It is a culmination of people, activities and events that make your experience individual and distinct. Your life is yours to design and nothing is stopping you from living the incredibly fun-filled and exciting life that you were born to live.
You can create a life full of adventure. You can achieve life balance. The journey starts with a dream and ends with making the most of the short life that you have before you. Are you missing opportunities and adventures all around you? Are you living the best story that you could possibly live? Maybe you’ve always believed that you could change it; you just aren’t sure where to start.
This book will get you started. It is meant to be a motivation to push you off the couch of your life into the life and lifestyle that you enjoy, LOVE, and can’t wait for every day. It is meant to wake you up from being a zombie, walking around in mundane existence and activate the dreams and passions in your heart to make the most of the life that you have before you.
It is time to start a new journey that creates for you a satisfying, exciting, and fulfilling life. Redesign your life to create equilibrium. This book will help you dream, plan, and to create an adventure worth living. It will spark ideas and motivate you to design AND LIVE the life that you were created to live.
Live Your Dreams
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Empowering You to Live the Life You’ve Always Imagined
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Bethany A. Williams
Winning Strategies Book 4
Live Your Dreams
Bethany Willaims
Published by Bethany Williams at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Bethany Williams
Discover other titles by Bethany Williams at Smashwords.com
From Mother to Mentor and Father to Coach: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/33018
First edition: January 2013
For more information or to contact the author visit:
www.BethanyWilliams.org
Blog: www.BethanyWilliams.info
Twitter: WinLifeStrategy
Facebook: LivingtheLifeofYourDreams
YouTube: WinatLifewithBethany
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my supportive and loving family; Michael Williams, Heather & Brian Stirm and Madison, my daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter, Brandon Williams, my son, and Caleb Williams, my youngest son.
They provide me overwhelming support and love and enable me to live my dreams. They graciously work around my schedule, travel with me, sit at tables and sell books for me, create flyers, and fulfill endless amounts of tasks and activities. For them I’m forever indebted.
I’m thankful for my amazing editor and publicist, Amy VanVleck. Without her, I wouldn’t be able to so adequately get a clear and concise message across. She is a huge blessing in my life.
Many thanks to my parents Jim and Elois Eastman for their continued love and support.
Most of all, I’m indebted to my adoring fans that continue to log onto my web site, buy the books, and attend my speeches. I am humbled by the global audience that reads my work and writes in to encourage me. Thank you! You provide more encouragement to me than you will ever know.
Without all of you, I wouldn’t be living my dreams.
Sincerely,
Bethany A Williams
Table of Contents
Preface: Start Living Your Life Today
Prologue
Chapter 1 Dare to Dream
Are You Where You Want to Be?
The Journey Takes Time
What about the ‘Things’?
Partial Life Success
Shake Free of the Fear
It Starts with a Dream
Chapter 2 Designing the Lifestyle and Life of Your Dreams
Where Are You, Exactly?
Lifestyle Transformation
You Really Can Create Your Own Reality
Plan Your Way into a Better Life
The Steps
Annual Life Planning Process
Peaceful & Quiet Retreat
Chapter 3 Go Ahead – Live the Life You’re Dreaming Of
The Moment is Now
Distractions
Lifetastic Moments
Believing
Chapter 4 Building the Dream
Iterative Design
Disappointment
Building Rome
Chapter 5 Making it Happen
Making the Plan
Action List
Chapter 6 What’s Holding You Back?
The Chains that Bind You
The Quick Action Plan
Success to Catapult you Forward
Go Ahead - Spend the Time, Energy & Money
Experiencing Failure
Dream a Better Dream
Chapter 7 Pinpointing the Action Steps
Action Steps
Schedule Your Life Away
Chapter 8: Celebrating Accomplishments & Perspective
Everything You Need
Perspective
Chapter 9 Recognizing Phases and Opportunities for the New ‘Go’!
Life’s Phases
The Fear of the Unknown
Finding a New Start
Chapter 10: Picturing the End Result
Picturing More Time with the Kids
Go For It
Never Give Up
Chapter 11 Making it Work & Staying Focused
The Balls Will Fall
Chapter 12 Living the Dream
The Greater Plan
Life is a Gift
The Travel Journey
Action Plan for Living Your Dream Life
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Prologue
I was inspired to write this book because of the experiences that I’ve lived through. I could have been stuck at any number of places in my life. I am just like you, although it may not seem that way from the way that my life is today.
At 18, I was told by my guidance counselor that I was the stupidest girl that she had ever met
because I would not accept a job at General Motors and choose a life in Flint Michigan. She believed that the job offer that I had at the time was the best future available for me. I was Salutatorian in my high school class, yet she saw the General Motors job and a life in Flint as my best chance at a great future. I didn’t dream that for my life. I didn’t want to live in Flint or work at GM. I chose a different path. I moved to San Diego and chose to start a life there.
I was deserted by my husband when I was 22. I had a small child and was left to raise that child by myself. I couldn’t afford the bills, and often, I was left with less than twenty dollars a week to feed both of us. Those were hard times. There were many days that I thought I would not survive, but I did. I chronicle that journey in the book Winning Strategies for Women.
I couldn’t afford to live in California, so I chose to move to Texas to raise my family. It would enable me a better cost of living and a better lifestyle. It would allow me to save for the kid’s colleges. I didn’t accept that I was trapped.
I live with a debilitating medical condition, severe scoliosis. I have had three major back surgeries and have three artificial discs and steel in my spine. They repositioned my center of gravity in 2004 and I had to learn to walk all over again. I was told early on that I should never have children, yet I had three. I dreamed up a different life and still choose to do the things I enjoy, like hiking Machu Picchu, climbing to the top of Otumanu in Bora Bora, and many other adventures along the way.
Many of you will read this book and say that she may be able to dream a better life for herself, but I cannot
. You can. You can overcome the obstacles in your life as I have attempted to do. You can dream a better future for yourself and map out a new path. You can get closer to the life that you want to live.
My first husband died six years after he left me alone to raise my daughter. I was embarrassed that he had left me, and I rarely tell that part of my story. To me, I was widowed, and I leave the desertion part of the story far behind in my mind and spirit. I had a failed second marriage, and have lived through untold relationship hardships. I understand loneliness. I understand grief. I understand frustration and a life that seems to not be going your way. I understand what it is like to be overweight, and unhappy with your appearance. Each of these things in your life can change. You can map out a path to a new day and a plan for a better future.
I don’t want you to read this book and feel like nothing in your life can be better than it is today. I am just like you. Maybe my path was harder, maybe yours is harder. I have tried to not let my disappointments define me. I made a new plan and remolded my life into more of what I wanted it to be. I continue on a daily journey to live my dreams. Why don’t you join me on the journey?
Chapter 1 Dare to Dream
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Zig Ziglar
Motivational Speaker, Author &
Top Salesman
I'm sitting in 9B on an American Airlines flight flying from Dallas to Miami. I'm 30,000 feet in the air, thinking of my international flight to Lima. I'm heading toward Cusco on an ultimate destination of seeing one of the new Seven Wonders