I used to think I was weak n' needy for wanting my "big break."

I dreamed of being discovered. I toyed with the willingness to enter some Svengali deal where an agent dude or silver foxy dada would see my raw talent and shape me into a formidable star--a fresh new voice on the scene. I longed for Someone Really Important to give me a Yes that would change my life. 

I got the most adorable email from one of my Get Out Of Your Own Way students the other day, and I just had to share it with you.

I just read my Daily Flame email today and at the bottom, you've go a blurb promoting Barbara Stanny's Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan To A Richer Life.

When I first glanced at it, I read it as Overcoming Underdreaming... interesting :) I just thought I'd share this with you because it seemed so fitting.

Interesting, indeed!  Her email inspired me to write a post for those who want to overcome underdreaming!

I've worked with a few dozen Fire Starter clients in the past few weeks on career optimizing, transitioning, start ups, reinventions, product ideas, social media strategies and balancing it all without burning it out. (And I adore each and every one of you. I'm thinking about you all right this minute and smiling hugely, because it takes kahunas to show up in the world and sell your soul with integrity, and to turn love into fat cash and ideas into fulfillment. Keep on moving.)

I've been hammering on the same concepts with lots of folks. I am known to hammer. I'm clear that I am not a coach -- I'm an adviser, so I can get away with being passionately opinionated.

Boy, have we gotten busy with work. Our reasons range from economic necessity to expressing our inner voice's mission to having a creative inspiration inside that just needs to be manifested NOW.

Either way, with the ability to access our computers 24/7, many of us forget to balance our work time with our personal time for exercise, family time, spiritual practices, relaxation and plain fun. My fiancée reminds me when I am slumping over my computer too long with something like, “Hey honey, watch that slump asana. You’ve been going a long time." Of course when a project that excites us or sparks our life's mission includes exercise, creative or physical pleasure, then we get to combine it all -- but many folks are sharing that their families, bodies or communities are neglected due to the scale weighing too heavily on work and not enough on other aspects of life. Our soft addictions don't allow us to put down our cell phones or iPads and stay off our laptops.

I suggest to balance our work/life by changing our life from one of default to one that is proactive by design.