Integrate Your Dream into Your Life

The path of least resistance is the path you are most likely to take. Not only does that feel safe to your body and mind, but it's also a very logical way forward. 

However, the path of least resistance isn't going to be the path of learning, the path of growth, or the path of fulfillment. Those outcomes require a lot more than comfort, so does that mean your life has to be full of suffering and frustration in order to see desired change? 

When it comes to chasing your dreams, I have found that it is a path full of resistance. You have to overcome your own mindset and limiting beliefs, the opinions and disapproval of others, time restrictions, financial limitations, unexpected setbacks, and in general, many unfavorable circumstances.

A degree of suffering and frustration is part of the process, but it isn't a sign to give up. It's a sign to integrate.

For me, integrating my dream into my everyday life has been essential to removing a lot of the resistance I was facing on my path. 

Integration helped me manage my time effectively, remain consistent, and ultimately, progress toward becoming an international model. When my dream stopped being separate from my daily life, my success began to feel inevitable. 

I stopped living like I had two different lives. I wasn't a mom by day and a model by night, I was both--24/7. I looked at what I needed to be doing to bring my dream to life and made that an indiscernible part of my life. No more compartmentalizing. 

Keeping my responsibilities and my ambition in two separate categories meant I was maintaining a level of internal resistance. The two kept fighting for my time and attention. After letting them become one, that resistance began to dissolve. 

I ate, slept, and breathed like an international model as I went throughout my regular day. Mentally, this not only helped me manifest my desired outcome as I assumed a new identity--the identity of an international model--but it also helped me shift my mindset. It was no longer my life vs. my dream. It all aligned: my life is my dream; my dream is my life. 

Removing my internal resistance through integration allowed me to move forward with a sense of peace and clarity. Chasing my dream became my favorite hobby, a natural part of my personality. It was what I desired to do with my free time, not something I had to force. 

Better yet, I noticed external resistance begin to decrease as well. It's almost as if my environment finally accepted who I was becoming and stopped trying to keep things from evolving.

That didn't mean that everything suddenly became easy. I still had my regular responsibilities to tend to and plenty of hurdles thrown my way, but they felt easier to manage. I knew that no matter what, I would still end up where my efforts were taking me.

 Luckily, I also had adapted a structure that helped me maintain my mental and physical effort toward chasing my dream. I learned how to stay consistent even when experiencing challenges and changes, and integration was the cherry on top that completed my personal formula for success. My previous blog post goes into more detail about this concept. I'll also be sharing more about this structure soon, providing you with a resource that can help you develop the same system in your life.

The concept of integrating your life and your dream might sound a little theoretical, and in many ways it is. It begins with a mental shift. You have to teach your mind to stop separating who you are from what you want. That shift is what allows you to start making decisions in alignment with the version of you that is living your dream come true. 

One day, you will reach your goals and achieve your dream. When that day comes, there will be no life separate from your dream. They will coexist. So, start that coexisting now. 

There will always be some suffering and frustration in life. That never disappears when you step away from the path of least resistance. When you choose to integrate your life and your dream, you'll see clarity replace chaos, consistency replace hesitation, alignment replace resistance--and that's how your dream comes into focus.