Sometimes as we are creating our amazing life, we can get tired, when things don´t go as quickly as we would like. It can be easy to lose sight of the dream and let it slip away like water swirling down a kitchen drain.

Here´s a few suggestions to help you stay energized and focused on your dream.

1. Stay focused on what you have accomplished, not just on where you are heading.
2. Remember why you were first excited about the dream.
3. Be prepared to modify your dream and start with a smaller dream so you can reach it.

If eradicating world hunger for example is your big dream, it would be a very good idea to have your dream broken down into smaller dreams such as working with your local food bank, creating a school lunch program for underprivileged kids in your community or organizing a trip to a developing country. That is attainable and doable.

Lastly talk about your dream and keep it alive. A fire that is left unattended dies very quickly so keep your dream alive through your journal, working with a coach or a mastermind group. You really can create your amazing life and realize your dreams.

Looking upstream from where we went swimming

My friend Brenda just left a few hours ago and I have several hundred pictures to remember the week by. I could write countless newsletters and teach a weekend workshop just on what we learned, experienced and the challenges we faced. We had a marvelous time together, laughing and playing, sharing and growing. I love friends that also lead amazing lives and are so genuinely positive to be around.

Yesterday we hiked a little known trail outside of Sedona and ended up at this fabulous swimming hole. Greg and I had done the hike when he was here but I didn´t have my camera with me. It was much easier the second time around as I knew where we were going.

One of the more challenging aspects of Sedona is that the signage for trails is very poor. It´s absolutely crazy how inadequate the signage is considering that tourism is a primary industry in the state. It really makes me appreciate even more that we need to look at our businesses, our websites, our blogs, our order forms and everything else that we count on to bring us clients from THEIR standpoint, not ours.

Someone who lives here, has hiked a trail a hundred times may know how to find it but if you´re counting on someone new to the area finding it without good signage, you leave people frustrated and disappointed. It has been one of the most common comments I have heard from tourists here: Where´s the signs?

It´s hard to believe that I have less than 2 months left in Sedona. Still lots to do and see, hikes to walk, and places to visit. Lots of work to get accomplished as well. New websites, new workshop, new programs, and a new book this fall. What an amazing life!

How are you doing? If you´re feeling a bit lost and looking for some signposts in your life, sit down and talk with a coach, a friend or a business associate. Having someone to chat with, go over things with, discuss things with and brainstorm with is one of the greatest gifts you can be given or you can give. Don´t be shy. Ask for help. We all need it. I ask for directions, guidance and feedback daily. You´ll move much faster in creating your amazing life, if you get some help along the way.

Clarity is something that seems to come in fits and starts. There´s a break-through and then some fog, another break-through and more fog. It isn´t going to be clear and sunny every day as we move into creating our amazing life. Clarity comes in stages.

So perhaps you know that you want more freedom but you don´t know how you are going to achieve it. Or you know you want to change jobs but you have no idea what you really want to do. Many come to me for consulting because they know they have a bigger life purpose but they just aren´t clear on what that looks like.

Here are a few suggestions to help you and some reassurances too!

Not knowing what the next five years is going to look like blow by blow, detail by detail is normal and probably a good thing. So relax and have a goal in mind but don´t worry yourself to death about how you´re going to accomplish it.

Take a baby step in the direction that feels like it could be the way you want to head. See how it feels and then you can take the next step or not.

Last week I took a couple of baby steps, signed up for a workshop, hired a word press expert and then cancelled the workshop 3 days later. Why? It didn´t feel right after all. I was doing it for all the wrong reasons and so I changed my mind.

However, with the word press expert, I got some further clarity and am now in the process of delegating more administrative and internet marketing tasks. That feels like the direction I want to go.

So start small if you feel unsure and see how it feels.

You may find talking through things with a coach or a good friend works for you. I also journal. I can write a couple of pages in my journal, argue with myself and defend both positions. It can be quite amusing. Then sometimes I need to sleep on it and suddenly there´s more clarity.

Come to terms with the fact that you will make mistakes and sometimes take a wrong turn. Oops! Wrong way! Turn around and head in the other direction. It´s not life and death. It´s a detour. Nothing more so don´t make those little bloopers along the way stop you or get blown out of proportion.

I also talk to myself. I know. My mother told me that people who talk to themselves are crazy. Well, then I must be crazy because I get lots of benefit out of talking to myself. Sometimes when I don´t have the time to journal through an issue, I´ll talk myself through it and it´s amazing how much clarity I can get.

Hopefully these few suggestions will give you some insight as to how you can get more clarity in creating your amazing life. If you´ve got any suggestions that work for you, I´d love to hear them.

And don´t forget to get your free ebook, Overcoming Adversity with Grace at www.overcomersinc.com/grace I´m a contributing author and there are some great tips in the book! Take advantage of them.