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Dare to
Dream!
Discover, Develop & Display Your Dream…
in 30 Days or Less!
Edward Paz
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Stage 1: Discover Your Burden – 6 Truths about Your Burden Within
Day 1: Your Burden Bothers You 4
Day 2: Your Burden Undermines Your Values 5
Day 3: Your Burden Requires Your Response 6
Day 4: Your Burden Deploys Your Creativity 7
Day 5: Your Burden Enlarges Your Compassion 8 Day 6: Your Burden Never Goes Away 9
Stage 1 – Review 10
Stage 2: Receive a Vision – 5 “W’s” for Clarifying Your Vision
Day 7: Your Vision Clarifies Who 12 Day 8: Your Vision Clarifies What 13
Day 9: Your Vision Clarifies Where 14
Day 10: Your Vision Clarifies When 15
Day 11: Your Vision Clarifies Why 16
Stage 2 – Review 17
Stage 3: Engage in the Process – 5 Ways to Begin Your Dream Journey Right
Day 12: Engage in the Process Boldly 20
Day 13: Engage in the Process Everyday 21
Day 14: Engage in the Process Gladly 22
Day 15: Engage in the Process Intuitively 23
Day 16: Engage in the Process Now! 24
Stage 3 – Review 25
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Stage 4: Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You –
Reflections on Your Obstacles – Past, Present, & Future
Day 17: Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1 28
Day 18: Allow Past Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2 29
Day 19: Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1 30
Day 20: Allow Present Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2 31
Day 21: Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 1 32
Day 22: Allow Future Obstacles to Strengthen You – Part 2 33
Stage 4 – Review 34
Stage 5: Maintain Faith! – The 6 Benefits of Belief
Day 23: Maintain Faith for Blessing 36
Day 24: Maintain Faith for Encouragement 37
Day 25: Maintain Faith for Legacy 38 Day 26: Maintain Faith for Inspiration 39
Day 27: Maintain Faith for Energy 40
Day 28: Maintain Faith for Financing 41
Stage 5 – Review 42
Day 29: 8 Goals for Your Dream 43 Day 30: A Letter to Yourself 44
Conclusion 45
Let’s Stay Connected! 46
INTRODUCTION
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You have a dream! Within you there is a purpose, an assignment
and a specific work that you were created to accomplish in your lifetime!
You have a yearning to do something great with your life, and that desire can be fulfilled as you courageously allow yourself to Dare to Dream!
The disheartening reality is, it is very likely that the majority of
people you know are not pursuing their dreams. If you live in a city anything
like mine, you are surrounded by individuals whose lives are consumed by
work that gives them very little satisfaction and fulfillment. If the people
you know are anything like the people I know, they are obsessed by the idea of “the weekend” and they do everything in their power to make it to Friday
at 5pm! This environment of mediocrity is not conducive to dreaming big!
The purpose of this book, then, is to prevent you from living a
similar life of “quiet desperation” and instead, help you to discover, develop
and display the dream that is your destiny! It is only in completing that which
you were originally created for that you can experience true satisfaction and
success.
With that said, this book is designed to, over the next 30 days,
provide the space where you can answer questions that will help you to
navigate through the following “5 Stages of Dream Fulfillment:”
Stage 1: Discover Your Burden
Stage 2: Receive a Vision Stage 3: Engage in the Process
Stage 4: Allow the Obstacles to Strengthen You
Stage 5: Maintain Faith!
I encourage you to work through the questions in this book one day
at a time, but if you’re inclined to work through the book at a faster pace,
please feel free to do so!
So without any further preliminaries, let’s jump right in to the first
stage of dream fulfillment…Discover Your Burden!
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STAGE ONE
Discover
Your Burden
Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid
If it brings you down...YOU can turn it around!
Edward Paz
DAY 1
Your Burden Bothers You.
Your frustration may be your allocation.
T.D. Jakes
Key Question What community/world issues frustrate, disturb or sadden you?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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DAY 2
Your Burden Undermines Your Values.
A God-ordained vision will eventually feel like a moral imperative.
Andy Stanley
Key Question What community/world issues are contradictory to your ideals?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________
7. ___________________________________________
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
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DAY 3
Your Burden Requires Your Response.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
Key Question What community/world issues do you feel you
must do something about?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
“Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty,
suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it.”
“Well, why don’t you ask Him?”
“Because I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”
Anonymous
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DAY 4
Your Burden Deploys Your Creativity.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale
Key Question What community/world issues have you began
thinking of creative solutions for?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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DAY 5
Your Burden Enlarges Your Compassion.
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
Edmund Burke
Key Question What community/world issues do you have
the greatest degree of sympathy for?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so,
by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas Browne Sr.
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DAY 6
Your Burden Never Goes Away.
Purpose is permanent.
Myles Munroe
Key Question What community/world issues could you not neglect doing
something about, even if you tried?
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump;
you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
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STAGE 1 – REVIEW
Discover Your Burden.
Your Burden…
Bothers You
Undermines Your Values
Requires Your Response
Deploys Your Creativity
Enlarges Your Compassion
Never Goes Away
After thinking through the various qualities of a burden, I have
come to the conclusion that my primary burden is…
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
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STAGE TWO
Receive
a Vision
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
When you SEE it...You can ACHIEVE it!
Edward Paz
CONCLUSION
If you have reached the end of this book having written down your
answers to the questions given…Congratulations! You are well on your way
to making your dream a reality! The patience and perseverance that it took
to thoughtfully work through the questions posed will be the same patience
and perseverance that will lead you to the fulfillment of your dream!
In conclusion, I want to leave you with a few action steps for you to
take that will help you to maximize the concepts outlined in this book:
Action Step #1: Refer back to this booklet often.
Use this booklet as a resource to keep you inspired when times get
tough, and allow if to be a reminder to you of why you started out on you
dream journey in the first place!
Action Step #2: Focus on the daily disciplines.
Your level of commitment to the five habits you identified in Day 13
will have a greater impact on your dream becoming a reality than anything else! Engage in the process everyday!
Action Step #3: Consume content DAILY to inspire your dream.
The more content you can consume to inspire your dream, the less
likely you will be to quit when the obstacles seem too high to surmount!
I feel so passionately about this, that I have created a website that I
am a confident will one day have the most comprehensive library of
resources to inspire your dream! On the site you can find inspiration through
quotes, books, articles, videos, biographies, movie clips, poems, worksheets and more! Check it out at www.edwardpaz.com.
Action Step #4: E-Mail me your dream!
In the “Stage Two – Review” you were asked to write out, to the
best of your ability, the vision of your dream fulfilled. If you would e-mail me
your vision to [email protected], I would love to personally encourage
you in your dream!
Your dream will come to pass! The road will be long and hard, but
as you remain faithful to the process, you can be sure that an unspeakable joy awaits you! Congratulations in advance for the positive impact you will
have on others as a result of seeing your dream through to its completion!
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Let’s Stay Connected!
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