As You Dream, Do Shall You Become

The longer I live the more I realize how important it is that I
always have a big dream in my life. Dreams are what cause us to
bound out of bed in the morning instead of waking with anxiety
or, even worse, apathy for the day ahead. When I don't have a
dream in front of me it's easy to find fault with everything and
self-pity comes easily.

There's an easy explanation for why we're not at our best when
we don't have a dream - we were created to dream. The Proverbs
writer tells us that "without a vision the people perish."

I've always liked a quote that I've heard attributed to both
Oscar Hammerstein and Walt Disney, "If you don't have a dream,
how are you going to make a dream come true?"

So why is it so hard for some of us to dream? Or so tough to
believe that our dream can come true? Perhaps for some of us
it's because we were programmed to "don't get your hopes up."
While this was told to "protect" us, it had the opposite effect.
For many years I wanted to believe in a dream (because I was
created that way) but I was afraid of how I'd feel if I didn't
get my dream. I was afraid to "get my hopes up."

So how do we start dreaming? Or how do we dream bigger? By
changing our thoughts of course. Mark Victor Hansen, who says
he's read "As A Man Thinketh" more than 25 times, writes in his
book "Dare To Win", "If you know exactly what you want, you can
have it...Look around you. The world is filled with abundance."

A dream is nothing more than a thought or a series of thoughts.
And James Allen tells us that "your circumstances may be
uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but
perceive an Ideal (a dream) and strive to reach it. You cannot
travel within and stand still without."

And that's worth thinking about.

-Anon?