Be the Dream, Don’t Chase It: The Identity Shift That Makes Your Goals Real

You are probably on a journey of trying to figure out how to pursue your dreams. You may be asking yourself what steps to take, what techniques to use, or what mindset will finally make things click. What you actually need is much simpler—and much deeper. You need a shift in identity.

This shift allows the dream you desire to be something you experience now, not something you endlessly chase in the future. You do not need to do anything physical. You do not need a complicated spiritual practice. You do not need to wait for circumstances to change. You need to change how you see yourself.

Right now, you may be approaching life as someone who is pursuing a dream. You are aiming for it, working toward it, hoping to achieve it someday. But there is a fundamental flaw in this approach.

Instead of chasing the dream, you must be the dream

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The Difference Between Existing and Living With Purpose

Many people live their lives simply existing. They wake up, go to work, come home, scroll on their phones, watch TV, and repeat the cycle. Over time, they abandon curiosity, passion, and desire. They stop asking what they want or who they want to become.

There is nothing wrong with simplicity. There is even beauty in stillness and presence. But there is a difference between conscious simplicity and unconscious distraction. When you exist without purpose in a distracted society, you disconnect from yourself.

You are not meant to merely pass time. You are meant to express something through your life.

Your desire to create, grow, and become more is not random. It is an expression of who you already are.

Why Chasing a Dream Often Feels Empty

You may have noticed that even when people achieve their goals, many still feel empty. They reach the milestone, but the satisfaction fades quickly. That happens because the goal was treated as the source of happiness.

Happiness does not come from achieving something. Happiness comes from alignment.

When you are connected to yourself—when you live in gratitude, presence, and inner coherence—you carry fulfillment with you regardless of outcomes. That fulfillment cannot be taken away.

If you are chasing happiness, fulfillment, or freedom, you are already approaching it from the wrong direction. Chasing implies separation. It implies that what you want is ahead of you and slightly out of reach.

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The Trap of Chasing Keeps the Dream Running Away

The very act of chasing creates distance.

When you chase a dream, you position it as something outside of you. Something that must be caught. Something that might escape. This keeps your attention focused on the future and pulls you out of the present moment.

The most important element in all creation is you—your state, your identity, your inner alignment.

When you shift from chasing to being, everything changes.

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Identity Comes Before Manifestation

This is where the Law of Assumption comes in.

Assumption does not mean pretending or ignoring reality. It means taking on the identity of the person who already is.

You assume the state of being:

“I am an author.”

“I am a coach.”

“I am an athlete.”

“I am a spiritual teacher.”

Even if your current circumstances do not reflect it yet, you embody it internally first. That inner assumption is where reality actually begins.

Your imagination and inner world are not secondary. They are foundational. The mental and spiritual realms are where all physical outcomes are formed first.

You must have it inwardly before it appears outwardly.

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Why Being the Dream Opens Infinite Possibilities

When you identify as the dream, you stop limiting how it must show up.

If you only focus on outcomes—specific titles, specific paths, specific timelines—you restrict possibility. But when you focus on identity, life has room to surprise you.

A book is written because someone is an author. A career unfolds because someone is aligned with that expression. A calling manifests because it already lives within your sense of self.

Your desire is not separate from you. It is an expression of who you are.

When You Are the Dream, It Comes to You

When you embody the identity, the chase ends.

You no longer run after the dream. The dream moves toward you.

Opportunities, ideas, and experiences begin to align because you are operating at the frequency of that identity. You are no longer trying to become something. You are allowing life to respond to who you already know yourself to be.

So stop chasing. Start being.

Be the dream—and let it catch you.

Peace and abundance always

Dr. Abundant