Give up on your dreams and your dreams will give up on you

Dear...

What are your dreams? Do you still have any? What popped up in your mind when you read the first question? Are you someone who secretly thinks their dreams will never happen? Or are you someone who says dreaming is for when we are asleep? Or maybe you are one of the few who still dares to dream big?
Did you know that a vast majority either gave up on their dreams or have no dreams at all? A smaller group still have dreams, but deep in their heart don't really believe that they can be achieved. And only a few of us have a clear vision how to get to their dreams or are already living them. The people that belong to the last group are the game changers of the world. These are the people that don't give up on their dreams and achieve the impossible.

For example the Wright Brothers, they pursued with unstopable persistency their dreams until they were finally able to fly. Only a handful of people were witness of what was believed to be impossible.  History however showed something remarkable. Orville Wright said after his first flights: "No machine will ever fly from New York to Paris because no engine can run for four days without stopping". Today we fly in about 5 hours from New York to Paris. You see even the Wright brothers didn't dream big enough.


Do you still dare to dream big, to pursuit your dreams and to make the impossible possible?
Nelson Mandela said: "It always seems impossible until its done."


Respond to this post or drop me an email if you want to know more how to pursue your dreams.

"Be inspired and you shall inspire" ~JD

Change is the only constant

Dear...

If everything is under constant change, then change is the only constant! Accepting this as a fact is a first step in becoming the one in charge of the changes in your life. It is like steering a ship or flying a plane. Instead of just undergoing the changes in your life unaware of where they might take you, become a leader of the changes in your life and go where you want to go. And if you know where you want to go, then start your journey of change. Don't stop when you get of track; don't stop when the wind or the current is against you and certainly don't stop when you can't see the end of your journey.  After all the fun of traveling is traveling.

Think about this: When a plane flies from Dallas to Amsterdam how often do you think this plane is of track? ... It might surprise you but, the answer is: constantly! Continually influenced by external factors the plane is of track all the time. But here is the thing. The pilot doesn't turn the plane around and neither does he lands the plane the moment it gets of track. No instead he keeps on flying and makes constant course corrections until he gets at the point of destination.

This is also true for the goals you want to achieve and the changes you want make in your life. As you understand now, it is certain that you will get off track. But if you focus on where you want to go and you make constant course corrections, you will get where you want to be!

Want to know more about change management in your personal or business life? React to this blog or send me a message.

"Be inspired and you shall inspire" ~JD

The only thing required to change

(Reposted from October 29, 2013)

Dear ...

Here it is my first published writing.

While working on my book one of my ghost readers advised me to start blogging. She said it's a good way to test your audience and it helps gathering a readers group or as I joked scare them off right off the bat, way before my book is published.  The subject of my book is finding your life's purpose... OMG you think... another self help book? Well, yes and trust me that question runs through my mind almost daily. And let me tell you why. I do most of my writing in a large bookstore, not only for the Chai-Tea-Latte they sell, but primarily because I'm surrounded with books. It makes me humble and wonder, if I really write something worthwhile to read. Well, I'm still working on my book, so at least I think I have something to add to all the self-help and inspirational books that have been published so far. True or not the future will tell us. But the future can only tell us based upon actions we took today.

I quote here a small paragraph of the first chapter of my book:

"We all have to overcome ordeals and pains and learn how to live with them. They shape us to what we are today as they have shaped me. If they block you from what you want to be then that is something you can choose to change and if you use them as an excuse to not change then that is perhaps a choice too. But if you want to change, realize then that you have to accept first what you are today before you can become who you want to be tomorrow." 

Let me know what you think.

Best wishes,

My name is Jean Dorff: I am a dad, a partner, a friend, a dancer, a dance instructor, a performance coach a motivational speaker and a writer.

"Be inspired and you shall inspire" ~ JD