All intellectual property below is my own, is my belief, and was created by me only. This is an artistic expression and not professional advice.

©️ 2026 mjc. All rights reserved.

As long as a dream doesn’t violate the laws of nature, it can be achieved. Once we realize that anything is achievable, we can see that what we want is just a sequence of actions away. After understanding that, the sequence becomes clearer by continuously moving towards the next steps, overcoming the only obstacles in our way, the ones found within us. This essay is about getting through the internal challenges I face in making my dreams come true.

I struggled a lot with acting instead of being. I would do work through the lens of a non-existent audience, when I should’ve done it to please myself first. Writing this essay is a gift to myself – I wrote in all of these journals, went through trials, and now something makes sense to me. This work is an asset of my soul, and it becomes a part of me, not an offering to the world. I stopped betting everything on what the world might accept. Instead, I left that game completely and earned these productions by listening to my soul. This way has no disappointment or failure because our standard is to create authentically rather than fitting in where we’re at the mercy of an outsider's opinion. In my experience, efforts driven by ego usually don’t go far or satisfy.

But efforts driven by authentic love bring even more love to us. The act of doing what we love is satisfying enough, which allows us to take it even farther and share it easily because it's our life's work. It’s not just for an outcome — that's a task. This is a purpose.

Articulation

Take the feeling, and describe every part of it. At least a foundational explanation that will allow us to start building it from the bottom up. This part of any dream is like a tree forming roots – it needs an equal amount of support below to grow above. It varies. Some dreams are so vast conceptually that they require extensive foundational work and documentation to support their growth. But some dreams only need visual thought before they’re made possible.

Lowest common denominators

I started saying this to describe taking the smallest aligned action towards your dreams. For example, the lowest common denominator of owning a mushroom farm would be to grow one mushroom. The lowest common denominator of becoming a high fashion model would be to take photos of ourselves in clothes. I think that after multiple aligned actions, we naturally go for bigger ones, until one great action where we surpass our original dream. But it’s important to just lay down those first bricks.

Act first, analyze later

I think we should put the piece down before seeing where it fits in. I’ve lost my whims by not writing them down first before giving them a title. I think that we should never let inspiration get away. Let it make a mess, and then organize it. I feel this pressure most when I go through inspiration attacks. The dream is so cool and makes me impatient, but I had to learn that every great system began as a manual, proven process that continued to improve towards the dream.

Understanding passion – the childbirth analogy. 

When a mother is pregnant, she and her loved ones are excited, imagining that the baby's life will play out in their ideal ways. We’re more inspired when it doesn’t exist yet. But when that concept is finally born, and we have to physically make it grow, we can face so many challenges. We can feel fear from being in the dark and losing sight of the light that is our love. We can feel loneliness because our dreams usually come to us independently, and it can be hard to keep moving without validation. We can also have feelings of despair, the loss of hope. Our dreams will always be with us, but we can either raise them well with love or have them make our lives worse in the end. Resentment of our dreams can steal the love from our lives.

If we have a genuine love and need for what we’re doing, even the days when we don’t feel good will somehow be a valuable addition to our purpose. Even throughout the process of writing this essay, I fell into pits of my own, and that feeling, along with my resolution, allowed me to add insight to my work. 

Dealing with impatience

We should have gratitude that we are at the start of something incomprehensibly glorious that we couldn’t even see from our initial vision. Momentum is an incredible force that we are just starting to feel. I’ve cried tears of joy doing something as simple as sweeping the floor because it honestly felt like my higher self was reading that exact moment in time. 

However, visualization doesn’t move things physically. Let it move our emotions to then move our minds, then our bodies, to stay in the momentum of producing every day. Raising the volume of our hearts beats until it’s too loud to even need validation.

The way we live isn’t always fabulous. It’s a struggle to free our hearts and keep them free. I was only able to think and write clearly about my lessons after many phases of my love dying and being born again, and it was all around, a dark but profoundly beautiful life so far. And I didn’t get here by myself <3

Life gave me multiple visions, but not that much clarity. This winter, I just took a chance and left everything that I used to know before my wings fully grew. At the time I’m writing this, I’m still in the air. I saw some of my dreams where they exist up in the sky and crashed into them. The whole time I thought I was flying with them. That crash didn’t send me back to the ground, but it did simplify my outlook on my life. Things became clearer by stripping down what I used to put my hope in. One huge question broken into small ones. Overall, I think that the vagueness of my dreams has condensed into one solution: To solve my questions by writing, and extract their value into products that amount to the big dream.

All intellectual property below is my own, is my belief, and was created by me only. This is an artistic expression and not professional advice.

©️ 2026 mjc. All rights reserved.

As long as a dream doesn’t violate the laws of nature, it can be achieved. Once we realize that anything is achievable, we can see that what we want is just a sequence of actions away. After understanding that, the sequence becomes clearer by continuously moving towards the next steps, overcoming the only obstacles in our way, the ones found within us. This essay is about getting through the internal challenges I face in making my dreams come true.

I struggled a lot with acting instead of being. I would do work through the lens of a non-existent audience, when I should’ve done it to please myself first. Writing this essay is a gift to myself – I wrote in all of these journals, went through trials, and now something makes sense to me. This work is an asset of my soul, and it becomes a part of me, not an offering to the world. I stopped betting everything on what the world might accept. Instead, I left that game completely and earned these productions by listening to my soul. This way has no disappointment or failure because our standard is to create authentically rather than fitting in where we’re at the mercy of an outsider's opinion. In my experience, efforts driven by ego usually don’t go far or satisfy.

But efforts driven by authentic love bring even more love to us. The act of doing what we love is satisfying enough, which allows us to take it even farther and share it easily because it's our life's work. It’s not just for an outcome — that's a task. This is a purpose.

Articulation

Take the feeling, and describe every part of it. At least a foundational explanation that will allow us to start building it from the bottom up. This part of any dream is like a tree forming roots – it needs an equal amount of support below to grow above. It varies. Some dreams are so vast conceptually that they require extensive foundational work and documentation to support their growth. But some dreams only need visual thought before they’re made possible.

Lowest common denominators

I started saying this to describe taking the smallest aligned action towards your dreams. For example, the lowest common denominator of owning a mushroom farm would be to grow one mushroom. The lowest common denominator of becoming a high fashion model would be to take photos of ourselves in clothes. I think that after multiple aligned actions, we naturally go for bigger ones, until one great action where we surpass our original dream. But it’s important to just lay down those first bricks.

Act first, analyze later

I think we should put the piece down before seeing where it fits in. I’ve lost my whims by not writing them down first before giving them a title. I think that we should never let inspiration get away. Let it make a mess, and then organize it. I feel this pressure most when I go through inspiration attacks. The dream is so cool and makes me impatient, but I had to learn that every great system began as a manual, proven process that continued to improve towards the dream.

Understanding passion – the childbirth analogy. 

When a mother is pregnant, she and her loved ones are excited, imagining that the baby's life will play out in their ideal ways. We’re more inspired when it doesn’t exist yet. But when that concept is finally born, and we have to physically make it grow, we can face so many challenges. We can feel fear from being in the dark and losing sight of the light that is our love. We can feel loneliness because our dreams usually come to us independently, and it can be hard to keep moving without validation. We can also have feelings of despair, the loss of hope. Our dreams will always be with us, but we can either raise them well with love or have them make our lives worse in the end. Resentment of our dreams can steal the love from our lives.

If we have a genuine love and need for what we’re doing, even the days when we don’t feel good will somehow be a valuable addition to our purpose. Even throughout the process of writing this essay, I fell into pits of my own, and that feeling, along with my resolution, allowed me to add insight to my work. 

Dealing with impatience

We should have gratitude that we are at the start of something incomprehensibly glorious that we couldn’t even see from our initial vision. Momentum is an incredible force that we are just starting to feel. I’ve cried tears of joy doing something as simple as sweeping the floor because it honestly felt like my higher self was reading that exact moment in time. 

However, visualization doesn’t move things physically. Let it move our emotions to then move our minds, then our bodies, to stay in the momentum of producing every day. Raising the volume of our hearts beats until it’s too loud to even need validation.

The way we live isn’t always fabulous. It’s a struggle to free our hearts and keep them free. I was only able to think and write clearly about my lessons after many phases of my love dying and being born again, and it was all around, a dark but profoundly beautiful life so far. And I didn’t get here by myself <3

Life gave me multiple visions, but not that much clarity. This winter, I just took a chance and left everything that I used to know before my wings fully grew. At the time I’m writing this, I’m still in the air. I saw some of my dreams where they exist up in the sky and crashed into them. The whole time I thought I was flying with them. That crash didn’t send me back to the ground, but it did simplify my outlook on my life. Things became clearer by stripping down what I used to put my hope in. One huge question broken into small ones. Overall, I think that the vagueness of my dreams has condensed into one solution: To solve my questions by writing, and extract their value into products that amount to the big dream.