Fill your cup with so much JOY and LOVE!

Yes I am telling you that it is possible to have a life full of miracles, love, success, peace, and happiness. But I don’t promise you the pink clouds and living a happy life all the time. We feel all emotions in life and we do need to experience every single feeling. However, my point is, you have the power of choosing how you want to feel and to live your dream life.

In this last blog of 2021, I’m sharing with you the secrets of creating your dream life and living in the moment. While reading this blog, I invite you to think about what you really want (your dream) in your life. At the end of this blog, you’ll be more excited about your dream and believe more that your dream can come true. Plus, you’ll have a plan to make it happen!

How incredible it is to make your dreams come true, right? Just thinking about it makes you excited! :) I know what you are thinking right now. “I have heard this a lot, Burcu, dreams not always come true.” But it does come true! My mission is to change this mindset where people feel a lack of confidence about making their dreams come true. Because I have seen so many examples from my friends, clients, and from my own life that dreams can become true!

There are some crucial things in order to make your dreams come true. I am going to start with those.

First of all, you have to spend the energy and effort for your dreams. Most importantly, you have to believe in your dreams! Recently, I’ve had an experience about proving this in my life. I hope my story inspires you to be more hopeful of your dreams and take action for them.

Since 2020, the world has been dealing with the pandemic. I and my company have been affected by it like every single human being in the world. First, I had to leave the life I created in the U.S. and move back to Turkey. I couldn’t even say goodbye to my loved ones in the U.S., I had to throw away my clothes into the trash, and some of them I had to leave in my room as it had been. I shut the door and left everything like we see in the movies. Everything that I was experiencing in my life was almost a part from a movie. I had to get into a salvation flight, witness every passengers’ scared faces, and then had to stay in a quarantine in a city that I had never been to in Turkey and never allowed to leave the room I stayed in. After the quarantine, it wasn’t the end of that scary movie I was playing a role in. When I moved to parents house, I started learning all those news about my family members. I learnt that my parents had serious health issues when I was in the U.S. and they didn’t tell me. I learned that we lost some of our relatives. In a few months, I lost my grandma and then my mom got sick. While all those things were happening in my life, I didn’t pay attention to how I was feeling, how my soul was feeling. The only thing I knew was, I was exhausted. But I kept pushing my limits and continued sharing inspiration, joy with people by doing live shows, podcasts, and writing blogs to be able to keep myself and my business alive… I showed up everyday to be the light for people and get through this interesting time that we had in the world. The reality was, who needed the light in life most was myself! I was trying to heal myself while doing all those motivational and inspirational things but I wasn’t aware of this.

In June 2021, I came to a point where I had to close my LLC that I created in the U.S. with years of hard work. I can’t explain how much pain I felt in my body and soul. All those energy, effort, money, pain, tears that I spent to create my business. It was going out of my hands and I felt like I wasn’t able to do anything else to keep it alive. Sometimes we feel like nothing is enough to keep something in our hands. It is going no matter what we do, we are powerless. We can’t control what happens. That was the experience I was in. However, while experiencing all these in my life, I had a dream. My dream was to visit my friends in the U.S., take my belongings back, and breathe in my second home (California) one more time.

I could have thought that this was impossible, right? When my company was almost going out of business, being in the midst of a pandemic, having lots of changes happening in the world every second, what a spoilt dream I had to visit the U.S., right? These were happening in June, 2021 and I want to stop the story here and tell you when my dream to visit the U.S. came true to show you how miracles can be expected! In October, 2021! Only 3 months later my crazy dream came true!

So what is this if it’s not a dream come true? Tell me what is this, if it is not a miracle? Do you think the pandemic was over in that 3 month period? No. Do you think I crazily search for clients? No. So how did it all happen???

Let’s continue the story and you can start creating your own story.

Whatever you dream of right now, think about it, how you can make it happen, how I can support you. Please take a moment and think… Since the new year is getting closer, we all have exciting dreams. However, some of us either give up on their dreams so quickly or don’t know how to make them come true. And those dreams stay only a dream. Don’t e one of these people. I am here to support you, reach out to me and let’s make a positive change in your life.

As I said at the beginning of the blog, because I never stopped doing my work on inspiring people by live shows, podcasts and speeches, from those networks I received clients. And the clients reached out to me, I never did any marketing or sales strategies to attract them at that time. Having those inspiration and knowledge led me to create The Joy of Speaking Club where people can change their personal and professional life. Result? My company and I were born from our ashes. :) I learned one more time that there is always hope in life as long as we breathe. When we believe and do our best, life gives us miracles. Miracles are not impossible. Miracles are expected! We all have expectations from people, from situations we are in, right? So instead of having those expectations, let’s expect miracles to enter our lives! The more we believe in miracles, the more they can appear. That also can increase the possibilities of our dreams to come true.

I am sure you are curious about the rest of my story. What can I say, it has more miracles.

First I started looking at the flight tickets, then the rules of entering the U.S. due to the pandemic, and checked in with my friends where I can stay. I also had to rent a car and all these expenses were in dollars. Thankfully my clients that I gained were paying me in dollars. Therefore, my expenses were almost in control. My accommodations were organized by my friends like family. Also my rental car was the best deal because of my amazing friends. The most incredible thing was, after I bought my ticket, I got a new client! So my trip was going to be both for work and joy! During my California trip, I had the privilege to give a motivational speech 3 times and did it in person for the first time since the pandemic! Long story short, my dream to visit America turned out beyond my dreams!

So how you can make your dreams come true?

Here are the secrets step by step:

1. Get clear on what you want, your dream. Instead of focusing on how your dream will come true, focus on what. What do you want, what is your dream…?

• If we take my story as an example, my focus (what) was to visit the U.S. to see my friends and wanted to do this with financial freedom. I didn’t think of how. I actually had no idea on how that was going to happen.

2. Act like it’s already done. Plan as if your dream has already come true.

• If we move with my story again, I planned everything about my trip before it happened. I planned who I was going to see when I was in California. I wrote down what I was going to buy…etc.

3. Believe and let go of control. This is the most difficult part for most people. Because as humans we love to control things and it is so hard for us to believe something that we cannot see. And plus, imagine that you have to believe in something you can’t see and also you need to trust that is going to happen and let go of your control. So hard, right? But when we believe what we want is going to happen and let go of our control and leave the rest to the highest power that we believe, then miracles happen. Only if we believe our dreams and do our best then let the highest power take care of the rest, we will see that our dream comes true in a miraculous way. Here, the most important thing is to have a strong belief that the highest power will give the best thing for us. You have to let go of how and when you’ll receive what you want and wait for the miracles.

• I believed so deeply that my dream was going to become true. I woke up with my dream every single day. I was planning and planning about it all the time. When it comes to how to let go of the control, you are leaving it up to the highest power that you believe. Your highest power can be God, Universe…etc. however you call it and whatever you believe. What I did every single day was, I did my part and prayed about it. You can create your own language when you pray about your dream. You don’t have to be in a certain religion. All you need to do is create some sentences like affirmations to tell about what you want and ask for help. Here is an example for you: “I really want this and I did my part. Please help me to make that dream come true. Thank you.” Something like this.

That’s it!

I hope this blog helps you to believe more in your dreams and also believe in yourself because you are the one who is going to make them come true with your own strong belief!

If you want to share your experience or ask questions, you can always write to me here: burcu@joyyburcu.com.

I wish you a miraculous new year! :)

Until the next blog, stay with joy! :)

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