If you remember being a child at all, you will recall wishing to emulate amazing, brave, exciting people, that help others:
"I wanna be a Policeman!"
"I wanna be a Fireman!"
"I wanna be a Doctor!"
"I wanna be a nurse!"
"I wanna be a race car driver!"
"I wanna drive a bulldozer and build big things!"
Ah, nothing can compare to the blind faith and wishfull, open minded thinking of a child full of hope and DREAMS of the future life.
As you grew, your dreams changed as you narrowed your interests and learned the truth behind the life before you. Now thoughts of being the football quarterback or moviestar or even the President come to mind. As a smaller child, the thrill of a fire truck racing by and all the lights and siren were the ultimate rush. Now, "success" has been redefined: something with a lot of publicity and money is the new DREAM. Forget that you used to completely enjoy building dams in the dirt and mud with limited resources and maximum accomplishment returns.
Through college, you were further narrowed into a specific pinpoint of chasing a particular career to earn money and get you out into the world to be a productive member of society. Now you have achived, now you have made it, NOW you are a success. Got everything under control, everything billed correctly, everything you wanted, including the wife/husband, 2.5 kids and a minivan that looks sweet and gets horrible mileage.
But what of your dreams?
Where do they fit in? Do they fit at all, or are they a forgotten avenue of creative living that was supposed to go away once successful adulthood in obtained?
How many successful adults plan to live out the rest of their life while a tiny dream withers and dies slowly, inside, only to be forgotten and reaplced by stock quotes and hurried trips to soccer practice? How many ballerinas, mountineers, dancers, artists, race car drivers, scientists will never exist from a dream unrealised?
And the final sting: How many of you wish you could go back and change some critical decisions that kept you from ever pursuing your dream?
There IS a solution.
Living inside each of us are dreams unrealized. Maybe just one, maybe hundreds. They might be dieing with each day as teh memory fades and you become more and more blended into the world your path has taken you.
Those dreams can be resurrected and put into action with the proper care and feeding, and it is only a decision away. Just decide what you like and take steps toward it.
I recall that CHASING women is almost more fun that catching them. The dreams work the same way. As long as you are taking some steps to CHASE them, it will provide in you the strength to look your dream in the face, decide to work toward it, and most of the time, if not ALL the time, you will suddenly find yourself living in your dream - side by side with your regular life - in perfect harmony. And the child in you will rejoice and make you live longer, maybe a littel harder, and even more fullfilled.
What dreams have you always wanted to pursue but for reasons that seemed beyond your control, they had to take a back seat... permenantly? Well, now you are successful, you have achieved, you got it going on, maybe now is the time to reopen that book called childhood fantasy, or youthful ideal and nurse your dreams back to life.
Many people have things missing in thier life that they just can't seem to find. And usually searching in the wrong places only numbs the senses to a point where it makes it HARDER to find or remember the quest in the first place.
Take the four step program:
1. understand that pursuing the dream is every bit as important as wanting to dream at all
2. find out EXACTLY what you want to do as your dream. write down. make it a specific point or direction
3. decide what it would take to start, and go buy or build whatever you need to launch step 2
4. set a realistic date in the next week or two, and look forward to that date.
You will not live to regret it. Actually, you might live without regret if you chase your dream.
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"I wanna be a Policeman!"
"I wanna be a Fireman!"
"I wanna be a Doctor!"
"I wanna be a nurse!"
"I wanna be a race car driver!"
"I wanna drive a bulldozer and build big things!"
Ah, nothing can compare to the blind faith and wishfull, open minded thinking of a child full of hope and DREAMS of the future life.
As you grew, your dreams changed as you narrowed your interests and learned the truth behind the life before you. Now thoughts of being the football quarterback or moviestar or even the President come to mind. As a smaller child, the thrill of a fire truck racing by and all the lights and siren were the ultimate rush. Now, "success" has been redefined: something with a lot of publicity and money is the new DREAM. Forget that you used to completely enjoy building dams in the dirt and mud with limited resources and maximum accomplishment returns.
Through college, you were further narrowed into a specific pinpoint of chasing a particular career to earn money and get you out into the world to be a productive member of society. Now you have achived, now you have made it, NOW you are a success. Got everything under control, everything billed correctly, everything you wanted, including the wife/husband, 2.5 kids and a minivan that looks sweet and gets horrible mileage.
But what of your dreams?
Where do they fit in? Do they fit at all, or are they a forgotten avenue of creative living that was supposed to go away once successful adulthood in obtained?
How many successful adults plan to live out the rest of their life while a tiny dream withers and dies slowly, inside, only to be forgotten and reaplced by stock quotes and hurried trips to soccer practice? How many ballerinas, mountineers, dancers, artists, race car drivers, scientists will never exist from a dream unrealised?
And the final sting: How many of you wish you could go back and change some critical decisions that kept you from ever pursuing your dream?
There IS a solution.
Living inside each of us are dreams unrealized. Maybe just one, maybe hundreds. They might be dieing with each day as teh memory fades and you become more and more blended into the world your path has taken you.
Those dreams can be resurrected and put into action with the proper care and feeding, and it is only a decision away. Just decide what you like and take steps toward it.
I recall that CHASING women is almost more fun that catching them. The dreams work the same way. As long as you are taking some steps to CHASE them, it will provide in you the strength to look your dream in the face, decide to work toward it, and most of the time, if not ALL the time, you will suddenly find yourself living in your dream - side by side with your regular life - in perfect harmony. And the child in you will rejoice and make you live longer, maybe a littel harder, and even more fullfilled.
What dreams have you always wanted to pursue but for reasons that seemed beyond your control, they had to take a back seat... permenantly? Well, now you are successful, you have achieved, you got it going on, maybe now is the time to reopen that book called childhood fantasy, or youthful ideal and nurse your dreams back to life.
Many people have things missing in thier life that they just can't seem to find. And usually searching in the wrong places only numbs the senses to a point where it makes it HARDER to find or remember the quest in the first place.
Take the four step program:
1. understand that pursuing the dream is every bit as important as wanting to dream at all
2. find out EXACTLY what you want to do as your dream. write down. make it a specific point or direction
3. decide what it would take to start, and go buy or build whatever you need to launch step 2
4. set a realistic date in the next week or two, and look forward to that date.
You will not live to regret it. Actually, you might live without regret if you chase your dream.
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