I was recently on the phone to a friend of mine telling him about my past few weeks that had involved travelling around South Africa, doing workshops and speaking engagements, meeting amazing teachers and helping people live their dreams.  The most exciting part is that I have recently been asked by Oshun Books, a publishing company in South Africa, to write a book on how to turn dreams into reality.  So I was chattering away excitedly to my friend about how blessed I am to be living my own dreams, to be on purpose and how marvellous this life of co-creation with the universe is and how grateful I am.

After my babble of excitement he commented – “when you first said you were a Fairy Godmother, I thought you were crazy – but over the last few years you have been really living and being who you are, authentically.  Even though you are a little nutty, with your wand and fairy wings, you have been living your brand of nuttiness and it is working.  It is inspiring to see how happy you are and hear about the wonderful things happening in your life.”

Living your authentic life is a key to living and manifesting your dreams.  Authenticity is the ability to be you – to be truly who you are with all your strengths and all your flaws, despite what other people think or say about you.  Authenticity is when you live your own unique brand of nuttiness so that you are able to bring your own flavour into the world.

Imagine if the only flavour for ice-cream was vanilla – a little boring right?

Well, most people are living a vanilla life – stuck in the 9-to-5; doing jobs they don’t like; earning enough money to pay the credit card debt; concerned about what other people think – and then wondering why they are bored, depressed or just not feeling fulfilled in life.

If you could choose any flavour of ice-cream which would you choose?

If you could choose any flavour of life which would you choose?

I would like to suggest that you choose the Flavour of YOU!

You have been put on this planet for a purpose and your skills, past experience, character, strengths and weaknesses have been perfectly blended to help you fulfill this purpose – to help you lead your true, authentic life.  The life that is true for you.

When you lead this type of life you bring your special flavour to the world and not only are YOU enriched, but the world and others are enriched by your unique gifts.
Imagine if Nelson Mandela had chosen a vanilla life?  Or Bono or Oprah or Einstein or Churchill or Elvis Presley?  If they had not allowed their crazy, nutty uniqueness and authenticity to shine through, the world would be a very different place.

I love this video below which is a tribute to bringing authenticity into the world

My flavour is the sparkly magic of a Fairy Godmother and it makes my life delicious.

What flavour and brand of nuttiness do you wish to contribute to the world?

Samarie Smith from Die Burger recently attended a Dream Mapping and Goal Setting Workshop and then afterwards interviewed me, the Fairy Godmother. She asked some thought provoking questions and so I thought it would be great to blog the questions and answers to provide valuable tips to pursuing your dreams.

SS: What is dreaming and why should we dream?

FGM: Dreaming is the most powerful tool for creating your life – it is the time when you let your imagination wander, you get in touch with your desires, you get in touch with your soul and then you begin to see images in your mind’s eye of how you would like those desires to be fulfilled in reality. The reason why we should spend time dreaming is because everything that exists in reality is actually created twice – first as a dream in our minds and then secoundly out in reality. Everything that is and has ever been created starts with a dream, it is really the beginning of the act of creation.

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