Live your dreams Part2

Live your dream - sofspics

Continuing with  what I had said in part 1 of live your dream,  each of us have strong desires or what some of us call dreams, while some call them ambitions. The very fact that we call them dreams we have assigned to them a special status both positive and negative. Positive because that is the very thing that you would love to have in your life and negative because the words dream has a negative connotation to it - the dictionary would negatively define a dream as  unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy. It is easy to give up on your dreams if you consider them unrealistic or self-deluding.

If I still have your attention, that means you want to pursue your dreams. Make the unrealistic part of your dream workable and realistic. Study, research and find out all the pros and cons get into the finer details that could make your dream workable.  Plan and organize your activity to center around your dreams, if your dream is to write a book then plan to spend a major part of your day writing and improving your skills. My writing skills have become much sharper than what it has been a year ago. I have put in at least seven hours of work every day of the week at an average - usually more. I write all kinds of stuff, creative stuff, self- improvement articles that you see here and else where, scripture lessons. I spend a major part of my day making the unattainable attainable. Now, no one can ever tell me that my dream of publishing a book is a vain fantasy. Last week my brother called to ask me when he would see my book being published, I haven’t spoken to him about my dream, but he has seen my dream in my efforts. Now, my dream has became the dream of my loved ones too! A kind of collective dream. It is now impossible to run away from my dream, because I would be letting myself and others down. What a way to have yourself caught up in your dream! My point here is this, 'what you do daily is what you future will consist of'. So take care to see that what you dream of today is a part of your everyday routine.

Don’t let others talk you out of your dream. Your dream is yours alone and they do not know how important and precious it is to you. Listen to yourself not to the dissenting voices.

Getting to the positive connotation of the word dream - the dictionary defines it as - a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind, b) cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal.

If your mind has invested a series of thoughts, images, and sensations in your dream that you find it exciting to even think of it, you should go for it. Creation happens twice, first in the mind and then in the real world. Your creation has already begun. It now needs your efforts your concrete plans so that it could become a reality. This is totally dependent on your faith in yourself.

Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe that you are capable of achieving your cherished ambitions? Do you believe you have the potential?

If YOU don’t, no one ever will! Believe in yourself today!

I will continue writing about this in another post very soon. Thank you for being with me and following me. Have a beautiful day!

Live your dreams

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Live your dreams

All of us have dreams, to live your dreams would be living a realized life. I have for many years wanted to write, write a book. At least one. I am not yet there, but I am getting there...soon!  I have never had the courage to admit it before now. I have shelved this dream for a long time. Whenever my articles or poems had been rejected, I just believed that I did not have it in me, that special quality to be a writer. I accepted what I thought was the reality, I cannot write anything and writing a book was beyond my dreams. I hid my dream behind my many other pursuits and took up painting, craft and somehow been able to do whatever I did well. Yet, the courage to get back to main stream - writing a book had never on my radar until now. Follow your dreams!

There may be many among you, who like me, have accepted a secondary/ inferior option to replace your dream. Inferior only in the sense that it is less important to you. If you did that you just killed your dream. I mean, if writing was your passion and you settled down to living a life as a painter, somehow your heart is not fully into it. Although you love painting you are never able to give it your hundred percent. Would you live your life with that faint nagging feeling somewhere at the back of your mind that you would have indeed been happier following your dream?

I don’t know about you.. the money that I made in the corporate world did never make me happy. I did make a lot of money,  I enjoyed what I did, but there was something missing. At that time I was unable to put my finger on it and identify the problem. Being a positive person I made the best of what I had.
I do believe there are many others, who do not know what they want, they just follow one thing after another trying to find satisfaction. If you are one of them you really need to sit and write down a list of things that you would really be doing, if not for the thing that you are currently pursuing.
Passion is something that inspires, motivates and keeps you going day after day. It urges you on to do your best, because these are what your dreams are made of... Often it would seem more practical and wise to change your dreams or make new dreams... especially when things don’t work out well for you...Should you give up and run away?
I really would not know how to answer this question for you. As for me, the answer would be ‘NO’ and ‘NO’. I would pursue my dream of writing till the end. I would at least die with the satisfaction that I pursued my dream and never gave up on myself and what I believed in.
I have just started to illustrate and write a book in bits, yes in bits! I write what ever I think I would want in my book. I have found someone who is so captivated by the idea of editing and publishing my book because this person believes in me. My dream is now leading me... Live your dreams! 

Part 2 of Live your dreams will appear shortly on this site ..please do leave a question or a comment if you feel like doing it... that would help me make these posts more useful. Thank you for taking your time to read this post. I appreciate this very much! Have a wonderful day!