Crystal Clear
I'm studying daily to bring my dream into reality. I have an amount of time set aside for this purpose every day. Though I am flexible as to when I use it, I am committed to using that time every single day. In the course of this study I have realized that one of the key ingredients to creating a positive outcome is a well-defined dream.
I used to think that a person with a personal vision was someone who was endowed with it from early on. I no longer think that. I've come to believe that defining and holding a dream is a choice one makes and can make at any time in their life.
In a world fraught with conflict, oppression, monetary slavery, and worldly wants it seems increasingly more difficult to hold and carry a dream. I handle this under the self-created credo: Carry The Dream, Work The Day.
The credo works to keep me on track. I know I'm not laying down the dream when I go into my work day. The dream remains alive, steeping on the stove top of work like a good soup, there to refresh me when I take a break or find the need to remember where I'm headed.
Like a good soup, my dream has a recipe, too. I work to perfect it. I've come to believe from studying others that the best dreams are crystal clear in definition.
Weeks ago, before launching this blog, I set out to define my dream. I wanted a picture of the best I could attain. I began journal ling to discover those "things I'd like to see develop in my lifetime." With my journal, I captured the thoughts, hopes and wants so that I could look at them intelligently and making decisions that would favor such things.
I think many people don't realize a dream or don't have one because they think a dream is defined entirely in one sitting. Not so, in my opinion. I let mine stew. I added this and that as the weeks went on and refined it. I threw out many ideas that by seeing them on paper became lesser priorities, things I recognized as diversions, side-tracking or excuses.
Now I have an exceptional stew on the stove of progress. And I've gained a kind of patient confidence in defining my dream as I make it crystal clear. Though my dream may be very large, it can be reached and will, I believe, become reality before I'm gone.
And in considering the end of the race (for one day it will end), the best dream I can define for myself includes a plan for succession and legacy. God willing, I will leave a positive influence to assist in the personal growth of other people.
I used to think that a person with a personal vision was someone who was endowed with it from early on. I no longer think that. I've come to believe that defining and holding a dream is a choice one makes and can make at any time in their life.
In a world fraught with conflict, oppression, monetary slavery, and worldly wants it seems increasingly more difficult to hold and carry a dream. I handle this under the self-created credo: Carry The Dream, Work The Day.
The credo works to keep me on track. I know I'm not laying down the dream when I go into my work day. The dream remains alive, steeping on the stove top of work like a good soup, there to refresh me when I take a break or find the need to remember where I'm headed.
Like a good soup, my dream has a recipe, too. I work to perfect it. I've come to believe from studying others that the best dreams are crystal clear in definition.
Weeks ago, before launching this blog, I set out to define my dream. I wanted a picture of the best I could attain. I began journal ling to discover those "things I'd like to see develop in my lifetime." With my journal, I captured the thoughts, hopes and wants so that I could look at them intelligently and making decisions that would favor such things.
I think many people don't realize a dream or don't have one because they think a dream is defined entirely in one sitting. Not so, in my opinion. I let mine stew. I added this and that as the weeks went on and refined it. I threw out many ideas that by seeing them on paper became lesser priorities, things I recognized as diversions, side-tracking or excuses.
Now I have an exceptional stew on the stove of progress. And I've gained a kind of patient confidence in defining my dream as I make it crystal clear. Though my dream may be very large, it can be reached and will, I believe, become reality before I'm gone.
And in considering the end of the race (for one day it will end), the best dream I can define for myself includes a plan for succession and legacy. God willing, I will leave a positive influence to assist in the personal growth of other people.
