Be About It

Photo taken by Ryan Mayo. Instagram: @ryanmayo

In a lot of my posts I talk about living a life that you are truly passionate about, and I often talk about chasing your dreams. Well, I think it's time that I stop talking about it and time that I start being about it.

First we need to talk about what my dreams are.

I have many dreams and aspirations for my life, but I will start with the general dreams and work into a few specifics. My biggest dream is to be able to reach a large audience of people through my works of art. My favorite art forms are screenwriting, poetry writing, blog writing, and making simple videos for YouTube. I hope that my arts can inspire a world to accept their flaws and insecurities, I want to motivate a world to be comfortable with who they are. I want people to look at me and see if some idiot like me can do what I love to do, then so can they. I want people who are going through hardships in their lives to be able to look at my art and feel a sense of hope and a sense of joy. I want to put smiles on the faces of every person who sees my art. 

But if I am going to be serious about this thing, I need to be all in. Dreams only work if you do, and baby I am ready to work my bubble butt off!

As my first step I have relocated to Los Angeles, the hub of entertainment. I decided to make this move for a few different reasons. 

1. You can never allow yourself to become too comfortable in a place, and I was beginning to feel too comfortable. When you get comfortable you lose the desire to grow, and I still have miles of growth left in me. So I believe that by moving to a place that is so overwhelmingly big and crowded and out of my comfort zone, I am putting myself in a position to either grow tremendously or wither away. And I don't plan on ever withering away.
2. Los Angeles is filled with passionate people who are all here to chase dreams. To be successful you need to surround yourself with people who are ambitious and motivated and driven.
3. There is a reason that LA is the entertainment hub of the world, it's because this place attracts talent. I need to surround myself with people who are overflowing with talent and ambition. I need to observe the way they live their lives and take things from them and formulate it into my own personal lifestyle of success. I must surround myself with people who are more talented than I am, because if you are the most talented person in the room then you are in the wrong room.

I am not saying that you need to move to Los Angeles to be successful in life, I'm not even saying that you have to move. You can find success anywhere and everywhere in the world, but, for me personally, I felt that this was the right move.

But just living in a new location isn't going to be enough for me to find success. Absolutely not. In fact, it is only a small percentage of what is going to help me.

To find success I must be so driven that ambition oozes out of my pours. I need to indulge myself into an environment of success. I need to work each day, every day to be successful.

For me, that entails writing every single day. I need to write a blog every single day. I need to work on my screenplay every single day. I need to work on my videos every single day. I need to work for my dreams every single day. Dreams only become reality when you dream with your eyes open.

But I don't want this post to be all about me, I want it to be about you guys, as well. I want it to be about your dreams and what it takes to turn them into reality. I want it to be about your guys' happiness and your love and your ambitions.

Whatever your dreams are, whatever reality you want to live in, you can make them happen. All it takes is hard work, hard work, and hard work. Never lose faith. But the most important thing to keep in mind is don't just talk about, be about it.

Let me know what your dreams are. And let me know a few things that you are going to do to help turn those dreams into a reality. Tell me how you are going to be about it.

Love y'all. I hope you guys have a blessed day and a blessed life.