351: Dreaming, Doing & Decisiveness

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

There is a huge difference between dreaming and doing. Yet, sometimes we confuse the two. Dreaming lives in your head and your heart. Dreaming doesn’t have a plan. Dreaming is passive. Dreaming doesn’t have a start date. Dreaming doesn’t keep you accountable. Dreaming is not an accomplishment. Dreaming is picture perfect and linear, a series of perfect steps that take you to a perfect destination. Dreaming is future-oriented. It’s about later… when you have time when the kids are older when the circumstances are juuuuust so. Dreaming is outcome focused. Dreaming feels indulgent and delightful, like something you might not even be worthy of. In contrast… Doing is your dream in action. Doing is a plan. Doing has a start date, as well as an end date. Doing keeps you accountable. Doing is an accomplishment. Doing is not linear, its a series of highs and lows and lefts and rights and a few wrong turns that take you to a beautifully imperfect place that you’re ridiculously proud of. Doing is action oriented. Doing is present-oriented, not future-oriented. Doing is step focused - not outcome focused - where you’re always considering, “what is my next right step?” Doing feels scary, exciting, nerve-wracking, determined, and disciplined. Dreaming definitely serves a purpose. It provides: Hope Vision Clarity Joy Escape Doing serves a transformative experience: Sense of pride Sense of momentum Sense of accomplishment Increased self-worth New/evolved sense of identity At the crux of dreaming vs doing is a lot of decision making. I would argue that decisiveness is the biggest struggle of doing. Making decisions toward your dreams (the doing) can be crippling. But for the doing to take place, the decisions must be made. You must become a DECISION MAKER AND AN ACTION TAKER. It is the only path to your dreams. Listen in to hear how to learn how to become a better decision maker and action taker - in order to be a DOER who realizes all her dreams. Links mentioned: Shameless Mom Con WaitList Thank you to our sponsors: Third Love: To find the perfect fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase got to Third Love BarkBox: Get a FREE EXTRA MONTH of Barkbox with any 6 or 12-month subscription by visiting BarkBox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 351. Show notes for this episode, including any links
0:05.6	mentioned in the episode, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors, can be found by going
0:09.8	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 351.
0:18.6	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:24.0	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:30.2	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:35.6	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to
0:38.1	join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you.
0:43.2	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's
0:49.6	episode. Hello, Shameless Moms. Happy Monday. Happy day after the 4th of July holiday weekend. I am very excited to be here with you today. And I hope that you are somewhere sunny and warm and summery and lovely. And I'm excited to be in your ear. We're going to talk about some fun things today,
1:15.5	get the wheels turn and get you inspired, fired up, and motivated about dreaming, doing, and decisiveness. I had a funny realization, like sometime in the last six weeks or so, I think,
1:21.1	that decisiveness is probably my number one struggle in entrepreneurship and has probably been my biggest struggle
1:30.0	in the last 16 years of being an entrepreneur. And it was a kind of a light bulb moment for me.
1:35.2	So I'm excited to talk to you about that today and talk to you about how I go about dreaming
1:39.2	and doing the difference between the two, why one is more critical than the other, but they're both
1:44.5	important. So we're going to dive into all that in just a minute. But first, we're going to talk
1:47.7	about our shameless mom of the week. So excited to honor this mama. So reminder that shameless
1:52.6	mom of the week always comes from someone who leaves a review over in iTunes or Apple Podcasts.
1:57.4	They're the same thing. But Apple Podcast is like the new name for iTunes Podcasts.
2:02.2	And if you go to shamelessmom.com forward slash review, you can leave a review and let me know
2:07.7	how the show has impacted you. And once I read your review and hear how the shows impacted
2:12.0	you, I'm sure I will be super excited and fired up to nominate you as shameless mom of the week and share your story
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