{"id":851,"date":"2011-03-05T21:38:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T03:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:46:16","slug":"the-diip-how-to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/the-diip-how-to-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"The DIIP: How to get started"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from the Dream Into It Workbook & Manual<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Look again to Thoreau\u2019s observation. It describes the essence of this work:<\/p>\n

I learned this\u2026 that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<\/em><\/p>\n

It appears that something is needed first, if we are to advance in the direction of our dreams.<\/p>\n

There is a prerequisite:<\/p>\n

In order to live your dreams, you must first identify them. How can you know which direction to take, if you don\u2019t know where you want to go?\u00a0If you are serious about living your Dream, you must define it. Don\u2019t worry; this is not a difficult process. Your Dream needs you as badly as you need it.<\/p>\n

Your destination makes a whole lot of difference, doesn\u2019t it? If you drive northeast from Los Angeles, you can wind up in Denver. Drive southwest a little ways from Los Angeles and you will be sitting in the Pacific Ocean. Is there a difference? There is a huge difference. And if your aim is to attend a convention in Denver, then your direction makes all of the difference.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t fall for the \u201cIt\u2019s all good\u201d idea. It\u2019s not all good. Ask someone who is living on the street. Ask someone who just lost a child to the insanity of a drunk driver. It\u2019s not \u201call good\u201d at all. Sometimes, it\u2019s terrible.<\/p>\n

What about people who want unhealthy, mean things? Will they get what they want too? The truth is that we are always reaping the results of our thoughts and actions. That is why it is so very important to fight despair and fear. If you inevitably find what you seek, doesn\u2019t it make sense to pursue things that offer substance, health, and joy? Those who seek death have never experienced life.<\/p>\n

Listen: You don\u2019t need to have it all figured out right now. All you really need to do is stop procrastinating and get started. Read this guidebook slowly and deliberately. Take it a piece at a time. You\u2019ve come this far because you want something to happen. Keep putting what you learn here into practice\u2026 and it will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from the Dream Into It Workbook & Manual Look again to Thoreau\u2019s observation. It describes the essence of this work: I learned this\u2026 that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}