At 66, I was flat on my back with nothing. At 70, I'm a Substack Bestseller living entirely from my art and writing. Your dream isn't gone. It's buried. And I'm going to help you find it.
I never stopped having dreams, but as I am now back in a drivers seat living in the process of growing the dream, there are moments that I recognize myself stumbling in my belief that I will fully achieve it. I get bogged down in process, and reminded of stumbling blocks of past. I ask myself what is different now, yet still under my control as it was when I came to Hollywood at 16 and "knew" I would make it. That piece is "knowing in my heart that I will succeed, no matter what." Then I reckon with the years I had that belief and didn't. And then I notice that part in my brain soul that taps into a magical energy, (probably prayer for some) that makes the seemingly unbelievable impossible happen, and recognize that while it hasn't always seemed successful, my best successes have always been from being thoroughly clicked in to that mindspace.
What Im noticing now is that living in a process that lives in my happy place is key, and that may be a key difference to my previous goal of being in s process yo get where I want.
What you have captured is the essence of a dream long held, and that essence is what keeps moving us forward.
That is why I advocate so strongly for going back to reclaim our dreams. Not because we must revive the exact dream in its original form, but because we can recover what lived at the heart of it. The longing. The aliveness. The sense of possibility. The part of ourselves that knew what mattered.
When we bring that essence into later life, it opens an entirely new door. New dreams become visible. New possibilities begin to feel real. And we gain a clearer understanding of what the long-awaited dream was truly asking us to pursue all along.
This resonates with men as well. we get caught up in providing and building etc.
I never stopped having dreams, but as I am now back in a drivers seat living in the process of growing the dream, there are moments that I recognize myself stumbling in my belief that I will fully achieve it. I get bogged down in process, and reminded of stumbling blocks of past. I ask myself what is different now, yet still under my control as it was when I came to Hollywood at 16 and "knew" I would make it. That piece is "knowing in my heart that I will succeed, no matter what." Then I reckon with the years I had that belief and didn't. And then I notice that part in my brain soul that taps into a magical energy, (probably prayer for some) that makes the seemingly unbelievable impossible happen, and recognize that while it hasn't always seemed successful, my best successes have always been from being thoroughly clicked in to that mindspace.
What Im noticing now is that living in a process that lives in my happy place is key, and that may be a key difference to my previous goal of being in s process yo get where I want.
What you have captured is the essence of a dream long held, and that essence is what keeps moving us forward.
That is why I advocate so strongly for going back to reclaim our dreams. Not because we must revive the exact dream in its original form, but because we can recover what lived at the heart of it. The longing. The aliveness. The sense of possibility. The part of ourselves that knew what mattered.
When we bring that essence into later life, it opens an entirely new door. New dreams become visible. New possibilities begin to feel real. And we gain a clearer understanding of what the long-awaited dream was truly asking us to pursue all along.