I want to share with you an amazing article by Devlyn Steele called Live your Dreams. This is a great article that talks about not just thinking about your dreams, but also taking action on your dreams. Are your dreams supported by your actions?
Live Your Dreams
-Devlyn Steele
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with action can change the world."
-Joel Barker
Stop
Dreaming. Can you imagine anyone being serious about that? Dreaming is
a natural part of who we are. We explore our dreams and develop
personal dreams. We even like to dream BIG! Our dreams become part of
who we are. We then adopt our dreams into how we see ourselves and want
our lives to be. That type of dreaming we often refer to as
visualization.
We know we're not going to stop dreaming, but
we can change how we visualize. For the most part our dreams and
visualizations focus on the end result. We see ourselves in love,
married, driving a great car, on vacation, with tons of money, in a
great career, famous, etc. Sounds good to me, how about you? Why not
dream about all this and more? Dreaming about the end result is just
fantasizing and wishing. Wishing relies on some magical force to make
our dreams turn into reality, and we become unhappy as we're not living
our dreams.
I have never felt the power of wishes coming
true. I have never actual met a Genie or have a taken a ride on a magic
carpet. It doesn't mean that dreams can't come true, it just means that
there is no magical force waiting to deliver your dreams to you. So how
do you make your dreams come true? That is a question we all often
struggle with. Even though we struggle with the answer, the answer is
not that obscure. We make our dreams come true with the action we take.
Dreaming about being in shape will not get you in shape.
Dreaming about being rich will not get you rich.
Dreaming about being famous will not get you famous.
Dreaming about the end result will not make it happen.
If you want to get in shape you have to work out.
If you want to make money, you have to be in action to earn money.
If you want to be famous, you have to put yourself in a position to become famous.
If you want the end results, you have to do the actions required to get there.
See
the movie of your life in your visions. Imagine going to a movie and
arriving at the very end, how interesting would that be? In order to
understand why and how it ended you need to see the sequence of events
that lead up to the end. In order to make your dreams come true you
need to see the sequence of events that you must take to make the end
result make sense.
Change the way you dream and visualize
yourself into a movie which incorporates the actions you need to take
to achieve the end result. If you dream about being in shape, then
change your dream to see yourself working out and eating right day by
day. See the beginning of the dream and let the dream build day by day
with all the action that gets you to the end dream of you being in
shape.
If you want riches, then change the dream. Dream
of yourself going to school, developing a career, working hard and
taking the steps to arrive at the destination.
If you
want love, love the process. Love the dating process and the
rejections. Love yourself and the journey to find love. Make a movie, a
love movie in your head and develop the scenes.
Make
all your dreams include the beginning middle and end. Make movies out
of your dreams and see the journey. Then when you are doing the action
instead of thinking to yourself, "This is a drag, I don't like working
out." Or if you are having any negative thoughts about doing the work
it takes to create your visions, realize then that every step of the
way you are living your dream. You are living your dream because you
made the action and journey part of your dream.
You can
start living your dreams today by changing the way you dream. Then
everyday is a dream and you can be happy doing the action, by living
your dreams.
