Let’s not sugarcoat it.
If you're over 45, there's a good chance your biggest dream these days is a full night’s sleep without waking up to pee.
But I want to take you back—back to a version of you who used to feel something. The version who thought anything was possible. The version who believed you could write a book, start a bakery, design a fashion line, open a beach bar, or hell—become a backup dancer for Janet Jackson. You know, before life sat on your chest like an unpaid credit card bill.
And now? You’ve been told to be realistic. Be practical. And for the love of God, don’t screw up your “stability.” (Stability, by the way, often looks a lot like stagnation wearing a nice button-down.)
But here’s the truth bomb: You’ve been trained to betray your own dreams. And that betrayal? It’s the reason you sometimes stare out the window and wonder where the hell your life went.
The World Runs on Dreams (Just Not Yours… Yet)
Everything you love? A dreamer built it.
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Flying across the world in a metal tube? That was once a lunatic fantasy until the Wright brothers said, “Screw it, let’s fly.”
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Streaming music from your phone while taking a dump? Thank dreamers for that too.
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Sitting on your couch binge-watching shows while doomscrolling social media? Welcome to the Netflix-and-iPhone era—a double whammy of someone else’s soul on fire.
Even the chair you’re probably slouched in reading this? Yup—somebody dreamed that up.
This world doesn’t run on practicality. It runs on the audacity of dreamers.
And yet, we were told to shut that part of ourselves down around age 12.
My Upbringing? Practical With a Side of Repressed
I was raised conservative. Good ol’ Midwestern family values. Men work. Women nurture. You go to church, save your money, and die with a pension plan and unresolved resentment.
Dreams? Those were for poets and people who lived in New York and didn’t wear socks.
The rest of us were supposed to be responsible. Practical. Predictable. Miserable.
Practicality is Killing People (But Slowly, Like Emotional Carbon Monoxide)
Somewhere around your 40s, that itch starts. You start hearing the whisper of what you really wanted to do with your life—but you’re knee-deep in responsibilities, drowning in “shoulds,” and told it’s too late.
Meanwhile… the world keeps spinning thanks to the few who still dare to dream out loud.
Do you see the insanity?
We admire dreamers. We spend our lives using their inventions, consuming their art, following their movements. But when it comes to our dreams?
“Nah, too old.”
“Too risky.”
“What would people think?”
Seriously—what would people think? That you finally stopped playing dead?
Midlife Isn’t a Crisis. It’s a Cosmic Reboot.
That restlessness you feel? That quiet desperation?
That’s not depression. That’s your soul staging a mutiny.
It’s saying:
"You didn’t come this far to be practical.
You didn’t survive all this sh*t to live a watered-down version of life.
You didn’t get to 50+ to play it safe.
You came to WAKE. UP."
Manifesting Isn’t Woo. It’s Physics With a Better Haircut.
People scoff at the word “manifesting” like it’s some crystal-clutching nonsense. But truth is, you’ve been manifesting your whole life—you just didn’t know it.
Every thought, belief, and decision has shaped where you are now.
And if that reality kind of sucks? Good news—you built it. You can unbuild it.
Just like the dreamers before you.
It’s Time to Get Your Hands Dirty
This next season of your life isn’t about settling. It’s about resuscitating the parts of you you buried under years of “being realistic.”
So here’s your permission slip—scratch that, here’s your shovel.
Dig up that screenplay. Dust off that business idea. Revisit that wild-ass dream you had before life told you to tone it down.
Because the world doesn’t need more responsible zombies.
It needs YOU—alive, lit up, and slightly unhinged with inspiration.
Ready to stop playing dead and start manifesting the life you were actually meant to live?
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🔑 KEY #1: You Must Divorce “Practicality” to Remarry Possibility
Let’s be clear: You’re not going to “accidentally” stumble into your dream life by defaulting to what's safe. Practicality is comfortable… until it turns into a straitjacket.
