Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt

Motivational Speaker

Dreams Do Come True with the Red Carpet and Tassels, After Doing the Yucky Parts

Filed under: Motivation — by at 7:04 pm on Tuesday, May 12, 2015

“Do whatever it takes
to make your dream come true!“

Glenda receiving her university degree

On New Year’s Day, 1988, I left home for Simon Fraser University. On a beautiful day in June, 1995, I received my Bachelor of Arts. Finally.

The seven years in between those two memorable end points were challenging and, oftentimes, lonely. It meant most evenings and weekends alone, studying and writing papers that only one person – the Teaching Assistant – would ever read. What was the point of all that work and consternation? I often – at least  once per semester – felt like giving up and walking away.

I have witnessed many dreams die at this point, when the work gets yucky and tough. People hit a bump in the road, a barrier, something they don’t know how to do or would rather not do and they forfeit their dream for seemingly easier or quicker rewarding pastures.

Just last week, I experienced that feeling again myself. I was attempting to write my positioning statement: the one sentence that defines my uniqueness as a speaker. Playing with words, I was frustrated; like I was stringing together clichés. No combination of words was quite right. I began questioning what I am even trying to do and what message I am aiming to deliver. Was my dream of being a well-known motivational speaker a mere fantasy? Had I misread all of the signs?

At this point, I cannot say my positioning statement has since come to me in a thunder bolt of genius. That has still yet to happen. However, I am fortunately surrounded by individuals with much expertise in the field who are standing by, willing to provide feedback on draft statements. The key is that I must do the tough, yucky work first in order to have something upon which they can provide feedback.

Even though I do not yet have my amazing positioning statement in hand, I do know – with absolute certainty – that one difficult-to-write sentence is not going to kill my dream. I have come too far and put in way too much work to not follow through and make my dream come true.

Please excuse me. I have some work to do before I can get to the red-carpet-and-tassel part of my dream.

Is there something you need to do before your dream comes true? You’ve got this!

(Read about those seven years and much in my autobiography I’ll Do It Myself.)

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Comment by S Emerson

May 12, 2015 @ 11:05 pm

You will get there Glenda. You have already accomplished so much that the rest of us just dream about. Facing challenges every day and conquering them.

Comment by Tony Botelho

May 13, 2015 @ 8:54 am

As always, a great post, Glenda. I do agree that dreams can come true, they may just not be the same dreams that we started with. But those original dreams are great guides and motivate us to act in ways that allow our new dreams to emerge.

Comment by Barbara

May 21, 2015 @ 2:53 pm

Something along the lines of….or inclusive of some of these words….

effective in-real-time communicator visibly displaying (raw?) parts: thinking translated to movement converted to words and meaning

It’s a stab, I know.

Ditto the previous 2 comments.

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