Test Drive Your Dreams by Jennifer Blanchard

Book Quotes and Wisdom

”Make a list of everything you've ever dreamed of doing, thought about doing, considered doing, or wanted to do (or tell yourself you're going to do someday), but just haven't yet.Use this to guide you to a final choice(on what idea to focus on right now):

What am I most excited about right now? What have I been putting off for a long time that I'm still thinking about doing to this day? Keep in mind this is just a test drive. You're not committing yourself to anything and you can always change your mind later. But if you don’t choose something to start with, you’ll just keep spinning your wheels. A decision is necessary.”

“All you’re ever responsible for is knowing what you want, asking the Universe for it, and then being a vibrational match to receiving it (meaning you feel good more often then you don’t), and taking inspired action when you feel called to. The rest is up to the Universe. So, no, you don’t have to figure out the How, and no, you don’t have to know every step of How you’ll do something before you do it. Just take the first step you can think of and the Universe will show you the next one as you do. Each of those steps will eventually add up to the How of making your dream happen.”

“You have to trust that if you take the first step you can think of, the next step will show itself to you soon after. And the next and the next, so long as you keep taking action.”

“The dots of the journey didn't connect until after I arrived at the destination, but when I looked back, there it was. A link that threaded through every single action I'd taken leading up to that point, even the ones that didn't seem to make sense. Through taking action, the How was shown to me. I didn’t have to figure it out ahead of time, I just had to be open to listening for inspired ideas and inner-nudges, and then acting on them when they came to me.”

“Here are the steps: First, remind yourself about the decision you made to test-drive something specific (whatever you decided on in the previous chapter). Second, ask yourself: what's one thing I can do right now to move forward on this dream? Another way to ask this could be: what’s one action I can take right now in the direction of this dream/desire? Third, whatever comes up when you ask that question, go do it. If multiple things come up, write them down and then go do whichever action you're most inspired to do at that moment. Fourth, when you finish that action, take another action.”

“What's one thing I can do right now to move forward on this dream/desire?”

“How can you make the action you know you need to take feel good to you?”

“Feeling good is not only the entire point of everything you dream of and desire in life, but it’s also the path to getting to those dreams and desires. You must get yourself on the feel-good path. And that means only taking the actions that feel good to you OR finding ways to make it feel good to take the actions you know you need to take.”

“Make a list of every single action you can think of (or every single action that you've got in your head right now)—The point here is to clear out all of the ideas, actions, tasks, shoulds, and have-tos, from your mind so it can think more clearly. Write it all down and don't leave anything out. Read through your list and decide which action feels most inspiring or exciting right now—Your list likely has a lot of different options, so choose the 1 that feels best to you right now and forget about the rest for the time being. Go do that action—Pretty simple. As you do that action, the next action will present itself to you.”

“Test-driving a dream or desire, you're in it for two things: To see how it feels To decide whether or not it's something you enjoy and want to do more of.”

“Ask yourself: What’s one thing I can do right now to move forward on this dream or desire? Whatever comes up, go do that action. Repeat.”

“After you've been test-driving your dream for a while, taking action, and seeing how things feel, you'll come to a point where you'll want to check in with yourself on how things are going.”