“It is the act of trying, that gives you that inner satisfaction and happiness.” Robert Miller
Today, we're going to be talking with Robert Miller, host of the follow your dream podcast, where he interviews lots of dream followers, some who have taken the leap to pursue their passions and dreams.
In this episode, Robert will be sharing with you his own pursuit and passion story and his motivation to venture into what he does today.
Listen in!
- I started out with a dream when I was young, which was a music dream and I studied music and played several different instruments.
- Like so many people, I got way off track and I attribute it to life getting in the way.
- I graduated college, and I was a broadcasting and film major but in between my filming and my music I was very unhappy about the whole thing.
- A friend of mine suggested that I join law school which I did and ended up doing well enough in law and started working as a lawyer which commanded 23 hours a day from me.
- My goal was to do law during the day and play music at night but I had no way in the world to do that and so I stopped playing music for 15 years.
- I always had the dream inside of me and it took me decades to finally get to the point where I did return to music on a full time basis.
- When I was in my 40s I started to play music again but more like a hobby and I put a band together and did some recordings.
- It took me until I turned 60 to live the life I always wanted to live and that was the big wake up call for me and I jumped into the deep end of the pool.
- Dreams come in all different shapes and sizes and there's all different ways that you can approach these things.
- You have to be flexible to adjust your plan and take a series of baby steps.
- When I decided to do what I'm doing now, which is music full time, plus my podcast, I sat down and I wrote on a napkin the first five or 10 steps that I needed to take.
- I encourage anybody that is thinking of the kind of move that I made, or just any move at all, to break it down into baby step.
- We all live to some extent with regrets and this was a big regret for me which I didn't want to wake up at any other point in my life wishing I had given it a shot.
- It is the act of trying, that gives you that inner satisfaction and happiness.
- If I've given the impression that it's all a straight line to success, I don't want to give that to your audience.
- You have to be willing to go through obstacles that you face because nothing is a direct line and you just have to keep your eye on the goal at all times.
- Probably in your life, you have more doubts and more inhibitions than anybody else does and for me, I kept fighting that.
- My message to people is that not every dream is going to succeed and if you simply make success as your load store, that is a pretty steep hill to climb.
- People said to me that I had a pretty inspiring and motivating story and that led me to start the podcast and it started to grow and get an audience.
- I don't focus on one type of person as my guest but get all people that follow their dream one way or another to success.
- I also finished up and released, what I call the follow your dream handbook which is basically a combination of my journey, my memoir, and how I did it and right away, it became a best seller on Amazon.
