Jasmine Star 00:00:00  We calculated the price tag of our dream before we begin, and we continue to choose to acknowledge and accept the cost because we deeply believe the investment for our future is worth the discomfort of today. Your dream comes with a price tag. There is a cost to it. Cost of time. Focus. Pleasure. Many of us want the outcome of success like the dream, but few of us calculate the cost and then only later decide, hey, was that too expensive? Have you considered how long it will take? How much time it will take from your days, your weeks, your years? Have you counted how much patience it will require? Have you committed to doing less because your dream will demand that you do more of the new thing, and less of the things you're doing right now. Will you say no to Netflix and chill and yes to network and consistent? Will you choose Happy Lifetime instead of Happy Hour? Because the price of the life you want will cost you your current one. Now, you might bypass a vacation this year so you can save and invest in yourself now.

Jasmine Star 00:01:02  So you have future filled with more vacations for longer periods, if that's what you want. What if the price tag is trading in your Hummer for a Honda or your Honda for a used Honda, and saving that extra money for your business? What if it changing your cost of living is the key to your success? Could you downsize your home or apartment to live below your means for a few years so you can play strategic bets on the future? Your future? What I really mean is to place bets on yourself. Now, to be clear, I wouldn't suggest doing something I haven't done myself. Not because I'm like, strong and determined that because my future vision is empowering me to make present sacrifices. And if you're lucky enough to not do life alone, your partner needs to agree to the cost of your success too. I had to look my husband in the eye and explain in great detail the cost of our dream, and then ask him to co-sign. Not because I needed his permission. I wanted his support.

Jasmine Star 00:02:00  I needed him to know that we're on the same team and we're focused on the same goal. I recently told him that the price of this new growth path will be 6 to 12 months of 12 hour days, sometimes working on a Saturday. That meant I'd be less available for that period of time. That was the cost. It was saying no to parties, dinners, social coffee dates. It was meal planning, waking up at 4 a.m. so that I could do breakfast, lunch and dinner with my family, all while still doing bath time, reading, and bedtime with my daughter. That was the cost. We needed to be on the same page so we could do it together. And that man invested just as much in the dream as I did. If he didn't, I could not have accomplished it in that amount of time to get those results and still be in a place of power and fulfillment. Does that sound miserable to you? That's totally okay. That is totally fine. I'm not saying it should be for everybody.

Jasmine Star 00:02:56  We were simply willing to pay a different price for the outcome we desired. It doesn't need to be okay for you because we might not want the same thing. And it doesn't need to be okay with anybody else but my husband and I, because we're the ones co-signing on that payment price of our dream. We are the guarantors. As long as we had each other's back, we knew that we would be okay. But we counted the cost in advance. The cost of the late nights, the early mornings, the long afternoons, the short months. The cost of delayed trips, of bypassed networking events and weekly marathons of the diplomat. We said, no, not right now, Keri Russell, not right now. But we calculated the price tag of our dream before we begin, and we continue to choose to acknowledge and accept the cost because we deeply believe the investment for our future is worth the discomfort of today. We believe in our future, and we believe in us. And if I might be a little bit cheesy, we believe in you.

Jasmine Star 00:03:58  We believe that if you know the cost of your dream before you begin, you won't find yourself negotiating with yourself. Once you begin. I'll start next week, next month, next year. I'll wait to post it. I'll release it when I know it's right. Maybe I wasn't supposed to start. I must be doing it wrong. Maybe it's not meant to be. I don't think it should take this long. Maybe I just can't do it. Those thoughts that's negotiating, that's giving you a way out of paying so you can say, oh, it just wasn't for me. Oh, I didn't have enough time. I didn't know what I was supposed to do. These words aren't reasons for you to stop. They're excuses why you wouldn't continue. So I am asking you to stop negotiating the price. You will have to pay full price for your dream, but it will be worth it. And when you say yes and you don't, stop moving forward. Living the hardest day in your dream life is better than the easiest year of a discounted version of everything you wanted.

Jasmine Star 00:04:57  So my question for you is this will you count the cost of your dream? And more importantly, will you pay it?