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12 Oct 2009 - Fulfilling Your Dreams
Many of us have grand dreams but due to financial constraints or other pressures and obligations, our dreams are relegated to a future time, often indefinitely.
If that’s what happening with you, it’s crucial not to lose sight of your dreams.
To help bring your dream closer to fruition, act with courage as if your dream is already real, no matter your current situation. Having a powerful vision is instrumental in making the dream real. When you talk to people, talk to them as if you are already successful. This is not lying; it’s called “creative visualisation”. When people think you’ve got a good thing going, they’re more willing to support you and spread the good word about you.
And don’t make the mistake of thinking that courage is a sole possession of the truly brave. Most of the time, courage is faked. Well-known personalities and professional hosts have professed to suffer from stage fright. In fact, most of them say that it’s actually good to have a few “butterflies in your stomach” before you go on stage. It keeps you real, and creates more energy that you can channel towards giving the best performance.
Next, you can do what you have to do in the meantime, but keep your vision alive in your mind and heart such that it sustains you spiritually. If you choose to succeed in life, everything else you do exists in service of that goal. As an aspiring musician, for instance, your part-time job is a means toward buying a guitar. Then, you speak, think, and practice music as much as you can when you are not doing your part-time job. The quality of your life depends less on what you are doing with your body, and more on what you are doing with your time and spirit. Keep your soul nourished and everything else will fall into place. As Eleanor Roosevelt once noted, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dream.”
Honestly identify your talent, take a leap of faith and act on it. This sounds like the usual motivational speaker spiel but you owe it to yourself to give yourself that chance. Failure is always possible but not the end of all things. In their dying years, most people only regret the things they never did.
And show love, compassion and appreciation to others. With every good thing you do, you might be sowing a seed through the harvest. Your positive attitude towards others will grow into something that nurtures and thrives. And kindness has a strange way of coming back to you.
12 Oct 2009 - Fulfilling Your Dreams
Many of us have grand dreams but due to financial constraints or other pressures and obligations, our dreams are relegated to a future time, often indefinitely.
If that’s what happening with you, it’s crucial not to lose sight of your dreams.
To help bring your dream closer to fruition, act with courage as if your dream is already real, no matter your current situation. Having a powerful vision is instrumental in making the dream real. When you talk to people, talk to them as if you are already successful. This is not lying; it’s called “creative visualisation”. When people think you’ve got a good thing going, they’re more willing to support you and spread the good word about you.
And don’t make the mistake of thinking that courage is a sole possession of the truly brave. Most of the time, courage is faked. Well-known personalities and professional hosts have professed to suffer from stage fright. In fact, most of them say that it’s actually good to have a few “butterflies in your stomach” before you go on stage. It keeps you real, and creates more energy that you can channel towards giving the best performance.
Next, you can do what you have to do in the meantime, but keep your vision alive in your mind and heart such that it sustains you spiritually. If you choose to succeed in life, everything else you do exists in service of that goal. As an aspiring musician, for instance, your part-time job is a means toward buying a guitar. Then, you speak, think, and practice music as much as you can when you are not doing your part-time job. The quality of your life depends less on what you are doing with your body, and more on what you are doing with your time and spirit. Keep your soul nourished and everything else will fall into place. As Eleanor Roosevelt once noted, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dream.”
Honestly identify your talent, take a leap of faith and act on it. This sounds like the usual motivational speaker spiel but you owe it to yourself to give yourself that chance. Failure is always possible but not the end of all things. In their dying years, most people only regret the things they never did.
And show love, compassion and appreciation to others. With every good thing you do, you might be sowing a seed through the harvest. Your positive attitude towards others will grow into something that nurtures and thrives. And kindness has a strange way of coming back to you.