Six Questions You Need to Answer to Achieve Your Dream (Solo Episode)

Welcome back to the solo episode of the Dear Black CEO podcast with your host, Karl Sona!

Hopefully those of you who tune into this show have big, audacious dreams you want to achieve. If you see an issue you can solve, or you know you have a talent or ability that could impact the world around you, then you’re in the right place. When you take the next steps closer to your dreams, you need to know that it requires you to live at a higher level; after all, ‘to whom much is given, much is required.’ While I can’t promise it gets any easier, I can guarantee that it will get better!

Dive into today’s episode and let’s chat around some questions that I believe will be pivotal for you to answer in order to take the next steps in whatever journey you’re on.

[00:01 – 05:02] Opening Segment

• I talk about my passion for this podcast and my vision for change
• Chasing your dreams requires you to live at a higher level
• • When you first step out you realize there will be challenges
• Today’s focus: It Never Gets Easier, But it Does Get Better

[05:03 – 12:10] It Never Gets Easier, But it Does Get Better

• I talk about the challenges you will face stepping out 
• • You will be tested
  • You need to get armored up 
• I share a story about getting a gift at the door
• • The Dream Giver
  • I have not graduated from doubts 
• There are serious questions we should ask ourselves 

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[12:11 – 24:52] Six Questions You Need to Answer to Achieve Your Dream

• What have I always been good at?
• • We focus too much on our gaps 
  • What is your strength? 
• What needs do I care most about?
• • It’s not about us but what we can do
• Who do I admire most?
• • Find people who are the hero of their own journey 
• What makes me feel most fulfilled?
• • This puts meaning behind the process
• What do I love to do most?
• What am I called to do?
• • This is your ‘Why’
• Your Maker is cheering you on
• • No matter how hard it gets
• Feel free to start with me! 
• • Shoot me an email at karl@dearblackceo.com and let’s talk
• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“When it comes to fulfilling a BIG dream, you’re going to get tested… you’re going to get beat up, you’re going to get bloodied.” – Karl Sona

“To get armored up for all those difficulties that are, quite honestly, daily – is just remembering why I got started in the first place.” – Karl Sona

“It’s not about me, it’s not about any of us… It’s about what we can do and the positive impact we can have on the people around us.” – Karl Sona

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