Do You Still Dream?
Do You Still Dream?
|by Mohamad Younes, RN, BSN, CPHON®
I got raised this way!
My parents raised me to do the right thing, to abide by the rules. My school teacher said: “focus on your studies, go to college, and get a JOB”. My employer asked me to follow policies, even if they didn’t make sense. My country expects me to graduate and start working. My Culture expects me to settle, get married, and have babies. BUT, I had a Dream!
The fact that you get absorbed by reality; exams, bills, taxes. Subconsciously, you feel compelled to put your dream aside, put it on hold and jump into pursuing standards preset by your culture.
Artists, Singers, and Young Entrepreneurs are looked down at in my culture because they are following a Passion, a Dream, and not a JOB that would pay the Bills!
LoL – That’s all it takes. One stare-down by your parents, your teacher, and/or your community to make you doubt what you are doing, and simply put your Dream on “coming soon” status.
A YouTube video came across my home page feeds the other day, a 14-year old boy in Texas had a revenue of $80,000 in 2 month. That little boy, oh I can’t call him little, that boy made $80,000 profit with $0 cash down. A 14-year old boy in my home country can’t even put that number together, $80,000 (Ironic right). The reason being, my 14-year old home town boy was raised on different standards “Do What You Are Told”, and the Texas kid was raised on “You Can Do/Be Whatever You Put Your Mind Into”.
I bet all you are eager to know how he made that kind of money.
The Texas kid states – { I came across an article on one of my favorite Entrepreneurs Journals, titled “Make $2000 in 1 week with a free Online Store”. I followed the steps, I got the free access to an e-course that taught me step-by-step of how to build and design my online store for free on Shopify. They showed me a strategy implemented by AliExpress website where they allow you to advertise items from their e-store into your e-store and earn 30% revenue on whatever you sell. No need for inventory, no need for shipping, and most importantly no need for down payments. I started marketing my store to my Facebook and Instagram, and then things got out of control. My bank account which is a sub-account of my mother’s bank account started blowing up, my mother started getting all these alert messages of foreign direct deposits to her account. Long story short, I was hosted by 2 TV shows, I was a keynote speaker at a University of Dallas Business Symposium where I talked about “Entrepreneurship & How To Market An Online Business“, and recently I gave a 30 minute talk at the Dallas Department of Juvenile Justice}.
Quite a Story right!
I posted a status a few days ago on my Facebook Group RN AlphaSlice, “Do You Still Dream! What is it?” I knew that some mentalities will be goal-focused and not dream-focused, and I was right.
One of the Dreams was “To pass the CGFNS & English
😈“, a second Dream was “To pass the sea to Europe
😂” meaning he wanted to illegally immigrate. A third Dream was “Marriage 😂
😍 then moving to US”, another was “Speed up my immigration to Canada!!”, and another “American dream 
✔
💥A step at a time though IELTS, NCLEX, then boom 
🔝🔝”, and the list goes on.
Some members chose not to participate, reasons could be that they are afraid of sharing, they don’t want to be stared down at their dreams by others, or could be that they feel they are too old to dream and they prefer to dream through their kids or grandkids.
I shared my take on the status and shared my Dream with everyone, I will copy and paste below.
Thank you all for the participation and engagement
The moral of the status:
You are never too old to keep Dream. There is a difference between goals & dreams. Dreams have bigger value and depth, you need to have a dream to the extent where your friends and family would think you are crazy. Don’t be afraid of being a dreamer, dreams come true and if you believe, you can move mountains.
I encourage everyone to start dreaming again, dream for yourself, not for your wife and kids.
I will share some of my dreams. I dream of financial freedom. I don’t want to worry about rent, bills, or gas. I dream of creating at least 10 successful businesses, I dream of owning 100 real estate properties, I dream of changing the lives of at least 1,000,000 individuals. I dream of creating something in my name…. I dream of creating a Legacy for my family… Yeah lol I dream a lot.
Remember, no one can take your dream away from you.
My favorite Dream in the comments on my status was to this RN & Entrepreneur who understands the grind and is talking the talk and walking the walk. I would like to give her a shout out, her name is Sandra Ck she opened her little online Facebook page business called Idées à Crochet Go check out her store guys. Her comment on my Status was:
I dream of being able to have my own crochet business , my own big name or crochet store ! I dream of being able to see my parents in Usa if not everyday every other day or weekend
I dream i can fly all by the rainbow so high ! I always have dreams ..
I will end this blog by saying, you are either contributing your time and energy to make your Dream come true, or working a JOB and helping other people’s Dream come true ~ Food for thought ~
Submit a comment down below, share your thoughts
|by Mohamad Younes, RN, BSN, CPHON®
September 22, 2017 @ 5:52 am
Nicely written Mohamad
I have a dreams too and every time I read your posts my energy get fired up.
I am very confident that many of your social media followers specially RNs feel that they hit the jackpot, learning real stuff from you watching your videos about your experience and benefiting from a genuine source of data and information that you provided free on YouTube and all other social media network will never forget of you in helping them change their lives.
Keep up the good job👍
Tony
September 23, 2017 @ 8:25 pm
Hey Tony,
Man my dream came true because of you 🙂 I can never give you enough credit.
I love the fact that I can help others through my social media.
All I really want is for people to wake up and feel the urge again to love their dream again and do whatever it takes to make it come to life.
This post was my first piece of blogging thoughts, I hope you can share my website/blog with other RN’s that you feel might get inspired
I am trying to build a positive community 🙂
September 22, 2017 @ 12:38 pm
Wooow this is so encouraging….You have inspired me so much..Looking forward for your next piece
Thank you
September 23, 2017 @ 8:29 pm
Susan, thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am glad you found some inspiration in it. I hope you got the moral of the post above. Reflect on your life and flourish your dream again.
keep coming back. If you haven’t subscribed to my YouTube Channel, please do. A lot of valid and helpful information over there
Visit my RN AlphaSlice Facebook group for daily interactions. I am on all social media platforms as AlphaSlice
September 22, 2017 @ 5:36 pm
Very interesting and encouraging thoughts..
keep up the great ideas..
Keep reaching for the stars..
you are living the American Dream..
September 23, 2017 @ 8:33 pm
Hey Ali,
Thank you for taking the time and reading my post. I am glad it was up to your interest.
yes, I am a living dream, and I refuse to be anything less than that. My aim is to motivate, encourage, and influence others to pursue their dream no matter how life or people try to cut them off.
keep coming back and share my site/vlog with your friends and family and with who ever might find this content of any benefit.
September 22, 2017 @ 8:13 pm
I love your dream dear brother. A big lesson for me.
September 23, 2017 @ 8:37 pm
Hey listen,
I was in a dark place one day, but I decided to do whatever it takes to get out of that hole.
Guess what, yes I did. Now I am in the right place to test my potential. I want to test what my brain is capable of doing. I want to test how may goals I can accomplish, how many dream I can bring to life. My vision is to help over 100,000 people one way or another to reach their dreams.
I hope you lined up your goals and dreams to start tackling them one by one.
Keep it positive and pursue your dream 🙂
keep coming back. If you haven’t subscribed to my YouTube Channel, please do. A lot of valid and helpful information over there
Visit my RN AlphaSlice Facebook group for daily interactions. I am on all social media platforms as AlphaSlice
September 25, 2017 @ 8:01 pm
My friend,you a very true example of a motivated RN who refuses being on the shelf.I hope that I knew you and heard from your advices long time ago before wasting time and money.keep on dude !!
September 25, 2017 @ 8:49 pm
Hey buddy, I hear you. My motivation comes form the people who I interact with on a daily basis, my wife and kids, and the positive people I surround myself with in real life, and on social media.
I hope you still have that fire in you to pursue you dreams, it is never too late to dream big!
September 25, 2017 @ 9:22 pm
sometimes we have dreams but other make us feel like ware are crazy to have them. They may say”” i dont see that happening”” then you just get demotivated. But i am glad that we can learn from you Alphaslice. I believe in my dreams. i dream to be financially free, to be in charge of a neonatal unit, to be an educator, to travel the world.
Thank you for your encoragement
September 25, 2017 @ 11:40 pm
Hey Natasha, I am glad you still have that mentality. Yes Dream for you and never mind the negative mentalities. If you read my other post on my blog titled What’s in it For You! https://alphaslice.org/whats-in-it-for-you/ you will relate more to the people you surround yourself with and you should try your best to stay away.
The people with your similar mindset and mutual dreams are found online and not around you.
keep dreaming 🙂
September 29, 2017 @ 3:10 am
OMG. This is overwhelmingly full of ideas. I was brought here by a link from a video in youtube. Everything seems to be done so easily and the page is full of motivation and encouragement. More ideas please and more blessings 🙂
September 29, 2017 @ 3:34 am
Hey Racquel, thanks for your lovely comment, I really appreciate you taking the time to ready my posts and watch my youtube video.
I hope you subscribed to my youtube channel, you can find links to it here on the blog. Please share this post and other videos if you find value in them. Liking, sharing, commenting on my posts and videos will help my blog and channel grow and reach more audience. I also have the RN AlphaSlice facebook group and page, we have more than 650 motivated nurses from all over the world. we are glad to have you on board. If you don’t mind, I will add you to my email list for the free weekly alphaslice newsletter.