For the past two years I have battled with what I should do in my life. Should I stay in IT, should I go out and do something on my own? Should I try this whole network marketing thing? Am I crazy for thinking that I can live the life of my dreams? Do only lucky people end up living the lives of their dreams? Are those people special and I just simply am not?

Some people end up living their dreams, others just sit and complain about their circumstances. Those that sit and complain are full of “what if’s” or if I had some opportunity like so and so had, I could have done what I wanted. They live in a world of “but this,” “but that” and never go out and chase what they want in their lives.

I firmly believe that we all have this little tiny voice inside of our hearts that tells us what we should be doing. We know what we want but we choose to bury that voice down so far because we feel like we aren’t good enough or that we have already missed our chance. So we waste year after year avoiding what our heart’s are telling us and end up living an entire life not fully lived. We float, from one day to the next thinking that tomorrow is going to be the day where we make the change that will end up putting us on the path we belong.

It’s so horrible, to live a life like that and so many people do. So many people hate their jobs and feel so stressed. We give so much of our time to the “man” and get hardly anything in return. Then, we wake up old and wrinkly with crap for health and feel like we hardly even lived in our life.

When we were kids we would dream, we would say what we wanted to be when we grow up. How many people actually do what they dreamed when they were kids? I bet hardly any. We get so lost in this fast paced world that we forget that we have a choice about what we can do in our lives. We think we have to follow the masses, go to college, get a degree, work for 40 plus years and then retire on less money than we need to be comfortable.

When I have kids, I hope that when he or she looks up to me and says that they dream to do something outlandish and wonderful, that I say – “go for it baby, be just like mom”. I can’t imagine looking in the eyes of someone I am raising and telling them “don’t go for it, life is hard and take the easy route.”

We have to dream and we have to know that whatever that little voice inside of us is telling us, that we should listen. Our lives are too short not to.

So, the only way you will always fail, is to not listen to your heart. How many of you reading this can legitimately look yourself in the mirror and state that you absolutely, hands down love what you do? That you’re free, that you enjoy every minute of every day? I know that I can’t look at myself and say that I do and it breaks my heart. That’s why I’m trying something new. Something that will help my dreams not be so blurry in binoculars, but come into focus as reality right in front of my eyes.

Please, don’t ever let yourself always fail by not trying. Life is too short.