THE GREAT ADVENTURE

What is your PASSION in life? What makes you tick? What turns you on? What gets you out of bed every morning to face a new day? Would you describe your life as a GREAT ADVENTURE? I'll be honest with you, my life is a GREAT ADVENTURE! I am living every single day to the fullest and I am LOVING showing others how to do the same.

My calling and PASSION in life is this: "I want to MAKE A DIFFERENCE, with other people who want to make a difference, doing something together that makes a difference!" I want to EXPERIENCE more than simple SUCCESS in life! I want to achieve SIGNIFICANCE! I want my life to count. I want to leave a LEGACY! I want to LEAVE MY MARK! I want some piece of the world to be made a little BETTER because I was here!

Some of you out there reading this, you know EXACTLY what I am talking about! Right now, I am speaking directly to your HEART! In fact, your heart is beating right out of your chest! You feel a little light-headed! The POSSIBILITIES are surging up inside of you! You have been thinking about this very thing I'm talking about more and more lately! You are thinking "How does he know? How could he possibly know that's where I'm at in my thinking right now?" I'll go a step further... You have been thinking, "Is this all there is to life? Isn't there supposed to be MORE? I want more! Is it okay to want MORE?" YES! Let me make that a massive YES! It's okay to want more! You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! There is MORE TO LIFE than just marking time, collecting a paycheck, paying off the bills and living for the weekend! Your LIFE is meant for SIGNIFICANCE!

Listen, you are FAR MORE POWERFUL than the world system has led you to believe! Don't miss this! You are a CHILD OF GOD! You are a kid of the King, a prince or princess! You were created for GREATNESS, crafted for SIGNIFICANCE and designed for PURPOSE, joy and FULFILLMENT! If that's not the life you are living, listen to me now, YOU ARE MISSING OUT! You are LOSING TIME! Life is passing you by! Don't let that happen! Please don't let that happen!

YOU are a person of INFINITE WORTH, with a God-given DREAM inside of you that you are meant to FULFILL!  NOW is YOUR TIME! Right NOW, you are finally ready to begin to CREATE your life deliberately and you are ready to BELIEVE that you truly are fearfully and WONDERFULLY MADE! You are ready to EXPERIENCE firsthand the POWER that God placed inside of you to CREATE THE LIFE you want and to IMPACT your world in the POWERFUL AND POSITIVE way you have always DREAMED! Don't let your inner voice of limiting beliefs, the self-sabateur, talk you out of taking POSITIVE ACTION today.

You are SMART! You know as well as I do, if you keep doing what you've always done you will keep getting what you've always got! If you procrastinate and say "Oh, there's time to DREAM MY DREAM later..." you will feel like you only blinked for a second and yet somehow find that another decade has passed you by ... again ... and you are in the same place, the same rut, doing the same things with the same results. Unfulfilled, without JOY, without PURPOSE, without DIRECTION.

Aren't you ready to finally, really, LIVE LIFE to the fullest? You just need someone to COACH you on your JOURNEY! I've got 25 years of EXPERIENCE doing exactly that and I would love to be YOUR LIFE COACH! Armed with additional TRAINING and CERTIFICATION from JOHN MAXWELL, I have seen my coaching abilities and resources grow exponentially over the past year and now I am even more passionately pouring my life into everyone I can!

Just comment below on this blog or inbox me on Facebook or send me an email at GreatAdventureCoaching@Gmail.com and let's DISCOVER TOGETHER how you can EXPERIENCE all that you WANT and DESERVE in life! As your LIFE COACH, I know TOGETHER we will figure it out and help you MAKE PROGRESS, find JOY, find PURPOSE!


Not sure what life coaching is or how it works? Just check out www.LifeCoachGregScott.com to learn more and send me an inbox or email and I'll email you a PDF brochure I created that spells it all out in detail.

Let me say right away that Life Coaching is NOT THERAPY! Life Coaching is NOT COUNSELING! LIFE COACHING is a completely unique relationship that focuses on your present and even more specifically on your FUTURE! Life Coaching puts you in the driver seat. You set the agenda and my role to is draw your best life performance out of the inherent skills, experience, personality, character and INTUITION you already possess.



So, tonight, I am here in my home office, and in addition to this blog, I'm also working on this week's Great Adventure Coaching E-Newsletter. Our next installment comes out this Wednesday morning. I hope you are subscribed to this weekly one page e-mail E-zine! Every week contains MOTIVATIONAL and INSPIRATIONAL information on specifically taking the FIRST STEPS toward ACCOMPLISHING YOUR DREAMS IN LIFE! Are you RECEIVING it yet?

Are you able to describe your LIFE JOURNEY as a GREAT ADVENTURE of DISCOVERY and PURPOSE and JOY? Would you like to? Have you ever thought about tapping into the POWERFUL BENEFITS of a life COACHING RELATIONSHIP? Connecting with a Life Coach of my own is one of the GREATEST and WISEST decisions I have ever made in my life and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it for everyone! It doesn't have to be me of course, but I hope you will FIND A LIFE COACH SOON!  If you decide to entrust me with the privilege of that role for you, my PROMISE to you is this: As your LIFE COACH, I will do everything I can, to HELP YOU become EVERYTHING you want to be and ACCOMPLISH everything you want to ACHIEVE in LIFE! We will make sure you experience more than SUCCESS! You will experience SIGNIFICANCE!

"Once you've tasted significance, you will never again be satisfied with success." - John Maxwell

On The Great Adventure With You! Let's Make a Difference!

Greg

ALLOW YOURSELF TO DREAM!

Allow Yourself To Dream. One of the most common issues with the adults I meet is that they don’t usually know what they actually want. They have no clue what they’re passionate about because they no longer take the time to indulge their imagination and dreams. Somewhere along the way, they began to associate dreams and imagination with being childish and to be a grown up meant to just accept what life has handed you, buckle down, suck it up and get through life. Life becomes something they endure instead of something they lap up and enjoy!

Of course, let's face it, life is hard! Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. The truth is, it is hard to dig deep and dream with passion in search of true joy and fulfillment while being dragged down by all the daily demands and social expectations in our lives. I believe most people have had dreams at some point in their lives. Then they either made a conscious decision to give up on them or the stresses of daily living caught them by surprise and killed their dreams. 

In the musical Les Miserables, Fantine sings the famous song “I Dreamed a Dream” and beautifully and painfully captures the emotion of when our dreams die within us because of the pressures and stresses of life. She sings:

I dreamed a dream in time gone by. When hope was high and life worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die. I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
...

She concludes her song with these words:

I had a dream my life would be, so different from this hell I’m living.


So different now from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. 

I'm willing to bet you can relate to that experience at least once or twice in your life too. Maybe you other sci-fi geeks like me can relate to the scene in the movie The Matrix. Morpheus is the captain of his ship, The Nebuchadnezzar. When the ship is destroyed he quotes King Nebuchadnezzar from Daniel 2. “I have dreamed a dream... And now that dream is gone from me."  

I can certainly relate to this common adult reaction of giving up on our dreams, accepting the status quo, and just existing through life. I had a million and one excuses for not thinking about what I really wanted to do and be in life, what my God-given passions and desires are and so for years I just went through the motions of what was expected of me. I kept thinking that I don’t really know what I want so how can I pursue it, how can I run the race marked out for me like the author of Hebrews challenges me to do? I protested, "I don't know what my race is! I don't have a dream anymore. Life has killed the dream I dreamed." But you know, that's not true at all. That’s simply not true! In reality we all have desires and ambitions, passions and dreams and the only one who can truly kill your dream is you. 

Don’t think for a second that you don’t have any desires, any dreams, any passion to experience joy and growth in your life. Have you heard of a child who couldn’t imagine or didn’t know what she wanted for Christmas? Every minute of every day is Christmas for all of us. All we have to do is know what to ask for. You don't know what you want or how to figure it out? Try this. 


To get going, just start. Start brainstorming. Throw out anything that connects even a little bit and see what sticks. Nothing is too wacky, too extreme, too off limits for this brainstorming time. Not even the sky is the limit. What COULD BE in life? What would you do if you KNEW you could not fail? Allow yourself to explore and change direction if need be. You may not nail it on your first attempt at this. Brainstorm a big list over several days. Then go back and review. Narrow down the list. Then start filling in the details of a couple of top contenders. 

What floats your boat? What turns you on? Sunsets, mountains, dolphins, a beautiful girl, a rainstorm, true love, someone who sacrifices for another. Being a lawyer, being a teacher, being a cop? Singing, dancing, painting, speaking? Caring for others, medicine, mechanics, technology? The list is endless and different things appeal to each of us. 

Really pay attention to, think about the books you choose to read, TV and movies you choose to watch, the music you listen to, the magazines you subscribe to, the websites you visit, your collections, hobbies and anything else that comes to mind.   

I have always had a keen interest in helping others discover their passion in life, seeing the look of exhileration and joy come across someone’s face when they finally have their AHA moment! Long before I became a pastor, or a coach, teacher and speaker, for as long as I can remember, I read everything I could get my hands on about psychology, self-improvement, self-help, leadership, human potential, psychology. 

In retrospect, my passion was always there, early on, and it kept popping up in all the things that interested me and what I was attracted to. Only you know what inspires you, and your dreams can only come from inside of you! Slow down once in awhile, and let your mind go. What is it you really want out of life? Who do you really want to become? What do you want to accomplish? Allow yourself to dream! 

Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs

We all have thoughts and opinions about our abilities, going on inside our head constantly. Often our self-limiting, self-talk tells us what we can’t do, why we can’t do it, and we focus on the worst case scenario if we tried. We call these thoughts “limiting beliefs” because they actually do limit your progress in life!

 

They literally stop you from moving forward! 

They PUT OUT YOUR LIGHT! 

The beliefs you hold to be true make up the fabric of your experience. The stronger those beliefs, the more they seem unshakeable, and the more you will find evidence to support them.What most people don’t realize is that the vast majority of our beliefs about the world are not really true “out there.” They are only true because we’ve decided they are, albeit we likely haven’t done so consciously.

Beliefs are formed through repeated thoughts, and the only reason they hold any weight is because you’ve decided or agreed that they are true. So, we sometimes find ourselves paralyzed and frustrated! Your life is like a garden and these negative beliefs are like weeds. If you allow it, they will take over and destroy your life. So begin weeding them out of your mind today and make room for joy to take root and grow.

Limiting Beliefs are the thoughts we have about ourselves that are very often based on no particular fact. They are built up over time from what we are told during childhood, schooling and adult life. We often inherit limiting beliefs from family, friends, teachers, the media, our culture and our peers. Your limiting beliefs can infect you with low confidence and insecurities and often become huge obstacles to achieving what you actually can achieve.

Through embracing and activating what I call your “God-Given Force Of Will,” combined with wise guidance, feedback and unconditional positive regard from your Life Coach, in time you can overcome all of your limiting beliefs. You can change your thoughts into more positive ones that will enable you to move forward and overcome any and all obstacles in your way to becoming the successful and joyful person you want to be. You can attract the positive things into your life that you want to experience by focusing on them and conquering your limiting beliefs.

Dream a Waking Dream

The author of Hebrews tells us:

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." 

- Hebrews 12:1-3

One way to think of that "race marked out for us" is as the particular and specific vision or dream that God intends for each of us individually. While its true that we all have one grand calling to love God and love other people, bringing glory to Jesus, we each also have very different gifts, talents, abilities, personalities, passions and life experiences, as well as a unique purpose, our piece of God's grand puzzle. 

The truth is, very few people I know would ever say they have realized their dreams. Yet, I believe God intends for each of us to fully realize and achieve the dreams He has placed in us hearts, the race marked out before us. Why is that and how can we improve our chances of actually realizing our life dreams? Over the next several days I'll be sharing several thoughts about that. 

For today, let me just assure you that you have it in you to dream. You absolutely do! Even if you haven't exercised that ability in a long time. God placed the ability to dream within each and every one of us. Some have more practice than others, pay more attention to that yearning than others, but you can develop the imagination needed to dream, to see your preferred future in your mind’s eye. I believe God wants us to dream, and to dream big, because He's a big God who wants to do big things and He wants to do them through us.

I'm Still Stepping out of the boat! Are you? Remember, whatever God has called you to do, youCAN do it .... IF you WILL!

Greg Scott

Life Coach, Trainer and Speaker

www.GreatAdventureCoaching.com