Here are some suggestions for you as you follow your dream.
1. Write it down. Write down the emotions you want to feel, the people you are with and what you are doing.
2. Find a picture or portrait of the dream and look at it regularly.
3. Create a 5 year plan to get there and enlist another person to help you.
4. Fail and fail again and get back up and do it again
5. Meet the people who are living your dream currently and build that network
Face pragmatism with passion