BIG DREAM
How powerful is a BIG DREAM?
It can literally keep you alive!
Here’s what Linda Hope said about her dad, one of my favorite celebrities of all time:
"He's thrilled about [turning 100]," daughter Linda Hope told reporters in a telephone press conference last month. "This has been a goal of his for the last number of years. He's determined to be a 100...He rallies [thinking about it]. He's just absolutely amazing." (www.eonline.com)
Just two months after realizing his dream, our beloved Bob Hope went to his greater reward.
Another favorite celebrity, George Burns, had an identical dream. He constantly talked about living to be 100, which he did. And shortly afterwards, he too passed on.
These two icons knew the power of a BIG DREAM. They lived their lives that way and they both experienced a life that few people couldn’t even dream of, it was that amazing.
Stop and think about the last person you encountered who had a BIG DREAM! Did they seem to have an extra reservoir of energy or did they seem sluggish and uninterested in life? Did they have a great attitude toward the world and others, or were they bitter and negative? Did they move and walk with a bounce and a spring of zestiness, or did they mope along in an apathetic slumber?
You know the answers to those questions! Big Dreams create ENERGY and ENTHUSIASM for living!
I often quote Napoleon Hill’s "Whatever the mind of Man can conceive and believe it can achieve" to prove the power of belief. But there’s another important meaning to that statement. Look at the first action -- conceive (which is the beginning of a dream). Doesn’t that mean the same thing as
Dr. Robert Schuller’s instruction that "If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It!"
But I’d venture to bet that most people are as Thoreau described them, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is
called resignation is confirmed desperation." And I’d further venture that most of this "quiet desperation" is caused because they find themselves either without a dream or without the belief in their dreams.
I know the feeling all too well --- I’ve been there. After almost 20 years of chasing my dreams I experienced some major setbacks that I didn’t respond to well. In the process, I lost one of my most prized possessions -- my belief in my dreams. I suddenly found myself living the most miserable of lives --- the life of quiet desperation.
It took me almost five years to get in touch with my dreams again, but when I did, the results were amazing. So many of the things in my life that I enjoy today were my dreams just a few short years ago. Since then, I’ve not only uncovered and achieved some super BIG DREAMS in my own life, I’ve been able to counsel and teach others how to reach theirs.
Vic Johnson
AsAManThinketh.net
It can literally keep you alive!
Here’s what Linda Hope said about her dad, one of my favorite celebrities of all time:
"He's thrilled about [turning 100]," daughter Linda Hope told reporters in a telephone press conference last month. "This has been a goal of his for the last number of years. He's determined to be a 100...He rallies [thinking about it]. He's just absolutely amazing." (www.eonline.com)
Just two months after realizing his dream, our beloved Bob Hope went to his greater reward.
Another favorite celebrity, George Burns, had an identical dream. He constantly talked about living to be 100, which he did. And shortly afterwards, he too passed on.
These two icons knew the power of a BIG DREAM. They lived their lives that way and they both experienced a life that few people couldn’t even dream of, it was that amazing.
Stop and think about the last person you encountered who had a BIG DREAM! Did they seem to have an extra reservoir of energy or did they seem sluggish and uninterested in life? Did they have a great attitude toward the world and others, or were they bitter and negative? Did they move and walk with a bounce and a spring of zestiness, or did they mope along in an apathetic slumber?
You know the answers to those questions! Big Dreams create ENERGY and ENTHUSIASM for living!
I often quote Napoleon Hill’s "Whatever the mind of Man can conceive and believe it can achieve" to prove the power of belief. But there’s another important meaning to that statement. Look at the first action -- conceive (which is the beginning of a dream). Doesn’t that mean the same thing as
Dr. Robert Schuller’s instruction that "If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It!"
But I’d venture to bet that most people are as Thoreau described them, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is
called resignation is confirmed desperation." And I’d further venture that most of this "quiet desperation" is caused because they find themselves either without a dream or without the belief in their dreams.
I know the feeling all too well --- I’ve been there. After almost 20 years of chasing my dreams I experienced some major setbacks that I didn’t respond to well. In the process, I lost one of my most prized possessions -- my belief in my dreams. I suddenly found myself living the most miserable of lives --- the life of quiet desperation.
It took me almost five years to get in touch with my dreams again, but when I did, the results were amazing. So many of the things in my life that I enjoy today were my dreams just a few short years ago. Since then, I’ve not only uncovered and achieved some super BIG DREAMS in my own life, I’ve been able to counsel and teach others how to reach theirs.
Vic Johnson
AsAManThinketh.net
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