Grant Kitchen - The Dream: A Practical Guide to Achieving Your Lifes Purpose

GRANT KITCHENs actions speak for themselves.

After completing the Camino de Santiago, an 800-kilometre walk, Grant resigned his successful career as a corporate soft-skills facilitator in Sydney, Australia, and began again in Germany with his wife, Magdalena.

In the six years since, Grant has achieved remarkable results. Not only has he integrated into a new country and culture, hes established his own successful Business English and soft-skills training company and built an incomparable reputation for achieving measurable and practical solutions in the field. He has facilitated over fifty programmes to eleven German multinational companies in English and German, and has employed two facilitators and administrative support.

Grants courage, tenacity and sacrifices have allowed him to realise his dreams and more. His infectious can do attitude has also helped corporate and personal audiences around the world to reach for the stars and realise their dreams.

REDDOOR PUBLISHING

A special thank you to Clare Christian and the RedDoor team. Thank you for believing in and sharing the Dream with the world.

MAGDALENA SCHEX

To my wife, best friend, and soulmate. You are my muse, and without you, nothing is possible.

ROD AND KAY KITCHEN

Your unconditional support is the backbone to my dream. Thank you for embracing every twist and turn with your love and generosity.

VANESSA BATTERSBY

You took the Dream to a new level and created opportunities with your expertise and professionalism. Thank you.

MICHELLE RUSHTON AND SHAUN KENNY

In the very early stages, your guidance, know-how and emotional support were the stepping stones that made the Dream a reality.

CHRISTA AND GERD SCHEX

Your day-to-day leadership allows Magdalena and I to achieve our potential regardless of each obstacle we encounter.

MEHGAWANNA GURUGE

My dear brother, thank you for sharing Buddhas teachings, and allowing me to realise my own conclusions.

For more information about Grant Rodney Kitchen, please visit: www.gkspeaking.com

The Power of Now: A guide to spiritual enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle (Yellow Kite, 2001)

A New Earth: Awakening to your lifes purpose by Eckhart Tolle (Penguin, 2005)

The Alchemist: A fable about following your dream by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins, 1995)

The Pilgrimage: A contemporary quest for ancient wisdom by Paulo Coelho (Harper Thorsons, 1998)

A Pilgrims Guide to the Camino de Santiago: St Jean Roncesvalles Santiago by John Brierley (Camino Guides, 2009)

No Boundary: Eastern and Western approaches to personal growth by Ken Wilber (Shambhala, 2001)

A Brief History of Time: From the big bang to black holes by Stephen Hawking (Bantam, 2011)

The Paradox Process: Creative business solutions...where you least expect to find them by Derm Barrett (Amacom, 1997)

Become a Key Person of Influence by Daniel Priestley (Ecademy, 2010).

Your Original Dream Intention is what you would like to achieve in your life. It is your first conscious realisation about who you are, and how you would like to make a difference to the world. It is a lightbulb moment when you realise: Yes, that is me! That is what I would like to become!. For many people, this has already happened, perhaps a very long time ago. Can you remember when it happened to you? What was your Original Dream Intention? What inspired you? Or maybe you havent experienced this defining life moment yet? Your Original Dream Intention doesnt have to be limited to excelling in your chosen career. It is what you intend to do, and how you intend to act, during your time in this world.

Maybe you want to help people in a warzone or influence how people think. Perhaps, you quite simply intend to treat people as you would like them to treat you.

Nelson Mandelas Original Dream Intention was to abolish apartheid in South Africa forever. He was jailed and ostracised, but in 1991, he achieved his intention.

Your Original Dream Intention is the beginning, and it directly affects the outcome of your Dream. It is so important!

Firstly, we need to explore what you can do to identify your Original Dream Intention, if you dont know what it is already.

Think back to when you were a child: what were your goals? As you grew, did you have a burning desire to make your mark on the world in a particular way? If so, has that changed, or are you still true to those goals?

As a seventeen-year-old, I was inspired by how so many of my favourite Hollywood movies changed my view of the world for the better, and how they made me feel that anything was possible in my life. Even tragic films had redemptive themes where the central character seemed to learn something of great value. So my Original Dream Intention became:

to positively change other peoples perspectives, or realities

Its vital that your Original Dream Intention is grounded in something that deeply inspires you.

So what exactly is inspiration? How can you recognise it in yourself? Lets take a look at some synonyms. During my studies at performing arts school, the principal encouraged us to use a thesaurus to find verbs that would allow us to be more expressive. Ever since, Ive found a thesaurus to be an essential tool.

Here are some synonyms for the verb to inspire, from Thesaurus.com:

• affect
• animate
• arouse
• be responsible for
• carry
• cause
• elate
• embolden
• encourage
• enkindle
• enliven
• exalt
• excite
• exhilarate
• fire up
• galvanise
• get
• give impetus
• give one idea
• give rise to
• hearten
• imbue
• impress
• inflame
• influence
• inform
• infuse
• inspirit
• instil
• invigorate
• motivate
• produce
• provoke
• quicken
• reassure
• set up
• spark
• spur
• start off
• stimulate
• stir
• strike
• sway
• touch
• trigger
• urge
• work up

Now lets look at some synonyms for the adjective inspirational:

• adorning
• advancing
• artistic
• beautifying
• beneficial
• broadening
• civilising
• constructive
• corrective
• developmental
• dignifying
• disciplining
• edifying
• educational
• educative
• elevating
• enlightening
• ennobling
• enriching
• expanding
• glorifying
• helpful
• humane
• humanising
• influential
• instructive
• learned
• liberalising
• nuturing
• promoting
• raising
• refined
• refining
• regenerative
• socialising
• stimulating
• uplifting
• widening

The purpose of the synonyms exercise is to help you discover your Original Dream Intention, and in doing so, help you to build a relationship to life and your own personal dreams. Now you have a good idea of what qualities your Original Dream Intention should have, the next step is to begin brainstorming what your Dream could be, keeping these qualities in mind and observing what inspires you.

Your Dream is the way in which you are going to manifest your Original Dream Intention in the world. In the About The Dream section I mentioned the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the Dream. Your Original Dream Intention is the WHAT. For example, perhaps your Original Dream Intention is to change the way that people think. Therefore, your Dream might be to write a great novel.