Can you remember what your dreams and goals were back in the summer of 1999? Do you have a vision or a desire you want to accomplish before you exit this existence? The life strategy that birthed my book can help you move your goals to full fruition.

Jan Brown, a guest on our Head Trip Audio series, calls this strategy “The 10% Solution”. During her young adulthood, she spent 18 years deeply imprisoned by alcohol and drug abuse. Recently she celebrated another 18 years of being sober and completely clean. She is well on her way to being a successful solo-preneur. Her 10% solution worked this way: She calculated 10% of a 16 hour day and dedicated that much time to being the most amazing woman alive. It was in those 10% chunks of the day that she changed her life to one of being clean and sober. If she couldn’t take a full chunk of time she would dedicate 6 minutes in every hour to her quest. Slowly, step, by consistent step she has reinvented her life.

Other people I associate with chunk out big portions of life all at once and dedicate these to their dreams. One client is building her own consulting business. Three days a week she works for a local employer and two days a week she devotes to her new and growing small business. Another associate of mine wants to retire early through real-estate acquisition. He has arranged to work four, 10-hour shifts each week leaving himself a bit of time each evening and one day a week plus weekends to view properties, make offers and close on deals. He’s been working the process for about nine months and is well on track to sustaining himself completely through passive income one property at a time.

My version of the “slow but sure” pursuit of a dream is to give what I can each workday and to do it with persistence. Some days all I could do was write for 5 minutes on my book. Most days I gave a minimum of 30 to 40 minutes. There were times when I could write for a few hours at a time. Never, not once, did I have a full day dedicated to writing. There were no retreats into solitude for me in order to pound out my book. Instead, I compared myself to a solitary ant bent on building an entire anthill. Some days I moved one grain of sand, some days I moved a handful. The point is every workday I moved at least one aspect of my dream forward. This book will be a dream come true for me. It is part of my life’s purpose. If I can slowly but surely plunk out one word, one syllable at a time and reach my goal, you can reach yours. Be consistent. Be patient and persistent. Never, ever give up on your dreams.

Here’s looking forward to being able to share my dream with you this fall.