Mark Victor Hansen - Living Your Dreams: Your Personal Success Program

Living Your Dreams

Also by Mark Victor Hansen

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LIVING YOUR DREAMS

Your Personal Success Program

Mark Victor Hansen

Published 2020 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

LIVING YOUR DREAMS. Copyright 2020 by Mark Victor Hansen. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained within. Although every precaution has been taken, the author and publisher assume no liability for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

Front Cover design by David Rheinhardt of Pyrographx

Interior design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2418-0

10987654321

CONTENTS

PREFACE

To Live Your Dreams

T he possibilities you imagine for yourself are sometimes so audacious that you dont want to tell anyone for fear they will laugh, criticize, and castigate you. Dont deny your dreams; instead let each of them excite you in the fiber of your being.

You have extraordinary possibilities. You want so very much, and its all wonderful. You have big, bold, and daring dreams. There are infinite possibilities, ideas, hunches, inklings, and inner nudges waiting inside you. They are called dreams.

You have God-sized dreamsso dynamic that you are almost intimated by them. Dreams to be, do, and have more. Dreams of creating wealth, health, happiness, and outstanding relationships. Dreams of falling forever in love with your ideal mate. Dreams of having cherished children and grandchildren. Dreams of health and happiness for your family. Dreams of financial, political, social, and geographic freedom. Dreams for the company or companies you want to create. Dreams of innovations and inventions that will improve and transform the world. Dreams of positively affecting a billion people in the next decade. Dreams of creating great and inspiring books, plays, and movies. Dreams of having a life-enriching education that enables you to master the principles of achievement. Dreams of being a visionary leader, acting courageously, purposefully, and with impact. Dreams of gaining respect, renown, fame, and fortune. Dreams of finding new worlds here and in the heavens above. Dreams of traveling to distant lands, meeting wonderful people, and having friends around the world. Dreams of being a powerful creator of your best and most rewarding experiences. Dreams of having an expansive, exhilarating, and superb life.

This book is about bringing those dreams into reality and living them every day. When you cogitate, ruminate, and meditate on your dreams, they ultimately and inevitably become your reality.

Let me share some examples that I hope will inspire you to dream bigger and better and live more of your dreams as you launch into this life-transforming book.

At age fifteen, my late, great friend John Goddard set a life list of goals of becoming a world-renowned adventurer, explorer, author, lecturer, and friend to the leaders of the world. He wrote a list of 127 audacious, exciting, and incredible experiences and achievements, practically all of which he accomplished.

John and I hiked together regularly and rigorously. We spent days together thinking out loud about whats possible. We pushed each others vocabularies to the limit, inspiring each others thinking and mind expansion.

I took many friends through Johns artifact-rich home museum, and each one was astounded at his depth of wisdom, knowledge, experience, and love for humanity and our planet.

I had John speak at many of my seminars around the country. At one class in Sedona, Arizona, we asked our students to rise before dawn. John took us to where few humans have ever been allowed. With tribal permission, we hiked and explored through ancient, sacred Zuni Indian ruins. While touring the ruins, John, an archaeologist and anthropologist, showed us the hieroglyphs and petroglyphs and discussed them with illuminating insights. I hope his visions will inspire you at the depth of your soul to write new dreams of your own into your future.

The second classic story of dreamers comes from the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, who were mechanics with an impossible dream. Owners of a bicycle shop, they dreamed that humans would be able to fly. Their father, a man of the cloth, said, Boys, if man was meant to fly, hed be born with wings. In 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they flew only twelve seconds, traveled 120 feet, and reached a top speed of 6.8 miles per hour, but their dream created the trillion-dollar aviation industry.

Allow me to share the story of one more man who is living his dreams. Elon Musk, born in South Africa, came to Stanford University in California, where he became friends with Peter Thiel. They created PayPal, and each became billionaires. Elon wrote down five giant dreams when he was at the university in 1995. He wanted to be involved in:

Sustainable energy (production and consumption)

The Internet

Space exploration

Artificial intelligence

Rewriting human genetics

I believe that Elon is the greatest and most courageous thinker, inventor, innovator, visionary leader, and doer of our time. He has succeeded brilliantly with PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and Solar City. He has giant dreams of changing the electric battery by making it affordably last over a million hours. He is competing now with Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to have the first company rocket ship that goes to Mars, colonizes it, and returns safely with the astronauts.

As this writing, Elon has become the fourth richest man in the world. When the coronavirus shut down most auto manufacturers, Tesla included, he wouldnt have it. Elon saw that ventilators were desperately needed, so he called the 3M company, who could not manufacture them fast enough. Elon said: I have metal, 3D printers, and skilled craftsmen, and I will joint-venture with your company. He did and was supersuccessful in delivering on his promised ventilators, but simultaneously he kept making ninety thousand Teslas. They sold briskly into a market that was hungry for superior electric vehicles. They are not just cars; they are computers on wheels, equipped with batteries with silicon chips. These self-driving vehicles use AI to repair themselves and have made Tesla the world leader in electric vehicles.