Anyone who has sat in my home office (or accompanied me on a shopping trip), is aware of my love for Kikki.K, a beautiful stationery brand designed to inspire & empower you to live your best life every day. What’s not to love about that?
This year I was fortunate to attend a well-being event where Kristina Karlsson (the brand’s founder) held a talk on living your dream life.
It was pretty inspiring stuff!
Kristina started her business (which is now a global empire) from some simple dreams she wrote down on a humble notepad. She wanted to love her Monday morning commute to work, she wanted to have a connection to her native Sweden, she wanted to be in charge of her own business and bring in $500 per week – little did she know how big and wonderful these relatively unassuming dreams would become.
However, her dreams didn’t happen just as a consequence of writing them down…
They happened because she worked to make them happen. In the words of John .C. Maxwell, Dreams don’t work unless you do.
And now Kristina has embarked on another dream. She wants to empower 101 million people to live their dreams lives too!
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How?
She’s published Your Dream Life Starts Here* – a highly motivating & inspiring book that contains simple steps and exercises to help you on your path to living a life you love.
I purchased (and devoured) Kristina’s book after hearing her talk. I even got to meet and speak with the lady herself as she personally signed my copy! She is such a passionate, positive individual and definitely someone to learn from.
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Before I was aware of the book, I had coincidentally carried out the same exercise as Kristina…
At the point in my life where I believed I had fallen down the career rabbit hole, I too spent time journaling what I wanted. My dream was to have flexibility, to be able to focus on my young family whilst still doing something I felt passionate about. To meet inspirational people. To have a career where if I felt scared or anxious about something, I would have the drive to push through because I would be in love with what I was doing.
That’s what led me here.
Now using Kristina’s book, I’m focusing my dreams further. I find the exercises within put the ownership on me to develop and grow. They’ve also given me a heap of courage because let’s face it – building your dream life takes guts.
The book has helped to re-engage my lost childlike dreaming skills.
One of my favourite exercises has been to list all of the people I would like to meet and why I want to meet them. It naturally leads to daydreaming about imaginary dinner parties and there is nothing wrong with getting caught up in a little bit of that!
It’s really important to point out that the book isn’t expecting you to have all the answers – you can approach it with the most baffled mindset. It also doesn’t pressure you into the doing. However, I’ve naturally found I’ve gravitated towards the actions I’ve identified. It just makes sense to make moves in a positive direction towards my goals.
Ultimately I’ve taken a lot of strength and reassurance from this book.
It’s been an exceptional tool on my self-development journey and I cannot recommend it highly enough!
So much so, I’m giving you the chance to win a copy of Your Dream Life Starts Here*, plus I’m also giving away the accompanying Your Dream Life journal – because it never hurts to have something fabulous to write your dreams down in now does it?
In all seriousness though, the journal is a great tool to enable you to gain the most value from the exercises contained within the book itself.
Full details on how to enter plus terms & conditions can be found below.
But before you rush off…
I’ll end my post here by asking you the same 2 questions Kristina asked us during her talk…
– What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
– What would you do with your life if you had all the time and money you needed?
Over to you, let dreaming commence…
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Want to win your own copy of Your Dream Life Starts Here by Kristina Karlsson & Your Dream Life Journal?
**Competition is now closed.**
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This book looks amazing! Such a great way to be prompted to improve your life and chase your dreams… looks like something I need to get my hands on! 🙂
It’s brilliant! We all have dreams but this book gets you working on achieving them in ways that don’t make you feel like you have a mountain to climb. Thank you for reading x