Dream It To Real

Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. And I’m glad you’ve found us. I care about teenagers or any girl younger or older trying to find her life’s purpose. This site has been created to serve as a positive space for you. You might wonder why do I care about you. How can a complete stranger care about another complete stranger? Well, you are not a stranger to me. We are sisters, and I’m clearly the older one!

I care because I do not like to watch anyone struggle. I come from a family of strugglers. The only thing worse than coming from a family of strugglers is not knowing you were born into a life of struggle.  In my forties, I finally realized life wasn’t the way I hoped it would be because of this struggling conundrum. It followed me into the worst places--my plans and decisions. When I wanted to try out a new idea or finalize a big idea, struggle filled every crevice in my mind. 

I circled around and around inside a big decision continuing day after day without finalizing a conclusion. I couldn’t recognize this was a problem because I had lived with struggle since nearly the very beginning of being me. This problem started to really show itself when I was leaving the teen years and making adult decisions. Where would I go to college? What would I major in? How was I going to figure out what to do for the rest of my life? I wanted to find a fulfilling career and create bliss and happiness without a clue as to how this would happen. 

I was voted most likely to succeed in high school. Somehow this success I had in high school was not enough and didn’t matter if I could not figure out how to do life the day after high school graduation and beyond. I considered myself a happy, no worry teen until I turned the light off at night to go to sleep. I could invision a fantastic life and career for about five seconds until unfolding my dreams from a negative point of view. I dreamed from a bright future to dark outcomes all before I could find my favorite sleeping spot in the bed. I wondered if I would ever get married and what about kids. I didn’t think I would succeed at any career choice I wanted to try. Not one positive outcome could be created in my mind. After predicting failure each and every time, I was left empty and alone as if I had no dreams at all. 

I have a lot of dreams for this website. I know where I want it to start and have a little bit of an idea of what it will look like in a couple of years. The thing I am happiest about is I am not predicting this project to fail. I have a positive spirit now permeating from my soul. I am predicting failure and hopelessness. I can look back and see the progress from confusion to clarity.  

My dreams were right inside of me the whole time. I knew them by heart.  And God has revealed new tasks for me to accomplish that I didn’t know were in me to do. And I believe your dreams are already inside of you, too. The ones that you know about and the ones you don’t. I care not only about my dreams, but your dreams, and any dream that needs a healthy dose of hope no matter how old the dream or the person.

Maybe you’re a girl in those most passionate years of dreaming during your senior year in high school. Or maybe you’re like me and have had lots of years go by where you still don’t think you got those dreaming years right. I pray for all girls at any age from the very beginning of the dream to when it reaches real life. I pray for your dreams to really leave the ground, take off and fly higher than the eye can see.  I don’t want you to struggle as long as I did. This site is here to help you learn how to navigate through the great big plans you have for your life even when you don’t know what they are. I had a good life and told myself I had no right to complain. But I wanted a great life. Life will continue to bring challenge, but life can also bring clarity, vision, and confidence to live more deeply rooted and fulfilled than ever before. Dream until it becomes real. Dream, girl.