Stop Hijacking Your Dreams: Prioritizing Constructive Action
- Steven Norrell
- Jul 29
- 2 min read
We can spend a lifetime standing in front of the whiteboard—sketching ideas, reworking strategies, talking endlessly about our vision. While clarity is important, there comes a point when the planning becomes procrastination, the strategizing becomes stalling, and the dream becomes a distant fog.
That moment? It’s when you're using time to avoid your future rather than build it.
Let’s get honest: We’ve all done it. Spent hours organizing a to-do list, rewriting our goals, tweaking the vision board—for the hundredth time—without ever making the call, launching the page, sending the pitch, or hitting the gym.
But dreams don’t die from lack of planning.They die from unconstructive action.
The Real Use of Time and Energy
Time is the most democratic resource we have. Everyone gets 24 hours a day—no more, no less. The difference is how we use them. More specifically: how we use our energy within that time.
Too often, our energy gets diverted toward activities that feel productive but keep us in the same spot:
Overthinking instead of executing
Consuming instead of creating
Planning instead of progressing
This is how we unconsciously hijack our own dreams.
The Turning Point Is Now
There’s only one fix for all of this: Constructive Action.
Not perfect action.Not guaranteed action.Constructive action—steps that build momentum and shape the future you want. And the best part is, you can take it right now. You don’t need a five-year plan—yet. You need one step—today.
Here’s what that might look like:
📞 Making the call you’ve been avoiding
🏃♀️ Taking a 10-minute walk instead of scrolling
🧠 Publishing your first blog instead of “planning” your content strategy
💡 Telling someone your idea out loud and getting feedback
✍️ Writing the first paragraph, not the whole book
Your Dreams Are Waiting for You to Stop Waiting
If you’ve felt stuck, stagnant, or frustrated, ask yourself:
“Am I using time as a weapon against my own dreams?”
Because time will pass either way. The only question is—will it be spent watching, or building?
The dream is real, but it’s not guaranteed.
It requires movement.
Momentum.
Grit.
Courage.
It requires you, showing up in the world with more doing and less delaying.
Let’s Make It Happen
Your life isn’t something to endlessly design on a whiteboard. It’s something to live.
So take that energy, the power you’ve been using to think, overthink, and wait—and turn it into fuel.
Use it to build.
To act.
To LIVEBIG.
Because that’s the cure to hijacked dreams: You.
Now.
Taking constructive action.
Moment after moment after moment. Let’s make it happen 🌍
Ready for help to take the first step?
Download the FREE Vision Workbook from The LIVEBIG Project and clarify what you’re building. Your future deserves more than delay—it deserves momentum.
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