Using The Day Job For The Dream Job

I work Monday thru Wednesday part time at my day job every single week. It's a good job that works well with my schedule, and allows me to work on my dream job with more than enough time. But of course, the day job is not the dream job.

 The dream job is to be an author full time. To be the CEO of my writing business. What artistic professional doesn't want to get paid for their art and do it full time? None that I know of. 

Having to work the day job is necessary, but don't let it take away your gratitude, and don't let it kill your dreams. 

Here are two thoughts I try and always think about when I go into my day job that keeps me in line with my goals.

I am using my day job for my dream job.

Remember, that day job is temporary. You will get to a point where you make enough money with your writing to leave that job. Saying these words to yourself also gives you gratitude for where you are in the journey, and that's one of the best things you can have for that day job.  It's paying for your editing services and Facebook ads for your new book release. Use the day job FOR the dream job, and eventually you'll just be at your dream job. 

The second thought:

If you don't work to make your dreams come true, you will always be working to make someone else's dreams come true. 

(I'm pretty sure this phrase came out of some self help book, but I can't remember which one. So I'm saying right now, those are not my words, and I'm not stealing them.😂) 

I find this one very powerful because my day job is one at a small business. I am seeing my boss, the business creator, live her dreams out, reach her goals, and I'm helping her do it while I'm there. I don't want to make someone else's dreams come true. I want to fulfill my own. There's nothing that is more motivating to me than being able to walk out of that day job one day because I can tell them that my dreams are out earning this job, and I'm going to work on them full time. This thought also keeps me on "the edge." It helps me not to get too comfortable at my day job, remember that it is a stepping stone, and not to let the day job kill my dream job. 

If you're having to work a day job right now, especially if you don't like that job, try and remember these two thoughts everyday and it will help you get through this temporary job on the way to your dreams coming true.