Dream Big Dreams, Bigger Than You Can Imagine!

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough!

I love this saying. One of the things I am most grateful for is that my parents always taught me to dream big. Nothing was impossible and everything was within my reach if I wanted it. I just had to figure out a way to get it.

I have done a few things in my life that I am quite proud of, like arranging to go to the USA and work there for a year at the age of 18. My parents told me that if I wanted to go then I had to arrange it all, and arrange it I did! In between my final Matric exams we were making trips to Cape Town for interviews with OVC and their American associates. I managed to pass all my exams and land a contract at the Westin Resort on Hilton Head Island. For a 17-year-old girl... not bad me thinks.

It's one thing to dream big and get lost or never achieve a dream because you don't know how to get there. It's another thing if you can use that big dream as motivation to get there. Don't look at how high the mountain is, rather focus on the next step you can take to get that little bit closer to your dream.

Right now, publishing a book feels like a really big dream. The first draft is written but there are so many other factors to consider. Growing my author platforms, finding publishers to submit to, finding an editor for a manuscript editorial analysis (which is the scariest because that is physically sharing my entire book with another person), redrafting my book again, possibly restructuring it a bit better, and so on and so on... While I am working a full-time job and have a toddler who resists bedtime and often takes up most of your evening.

Call me crazy but I have plans to publish a few more books after this one!

So, do my dreams scare me... Yeah, they do! But where there is a will, there is a way.

Watch this space.

Love

Chené