January 27, 2010 – 6:00 am
There is a danger in the avid pursuit of one’s dreams – selfishness, self-absorption, self-centeredness. The way to avoid this danger is to always stop to live each day and cherish each friend or family member.
When we value each person for their dreams and hopes and struggles and pain, we deny selfishness a point of entry into our hearts and lives. As important as it is to pursue our dreams, we must remember that the dreams of others are equally important.
There is no comparing of dreams. What might seem grand to you might seem a small dream to another, and vice versa. Never compare dreams. Instead seek out ways to help one another in successfully fulfilling their dreams.
“Perfect good breeding is the result of nature and not of education; for it may be found in a cottage, and may be missed in a palace. ‘Tis the genial regard for the feeling of others that spring from an absence of selfishness.” — Disraeli
January 20, 2010 – 6:00 am
You cannot make progress toward your goals until you take the first step.
The New Year brings to each of us the challenge to just BEGIN. No matter how large or how small your goals and plans, you will not achieve them until you BEGIN.
Gather your support group, gather your resources, gather your courage, and BEGIN. Trust your dream, trust your plans, and BEGIN.
Whether your initial steps are large or small, the first steps must be taken. Only you can take the first steps toward fulfillment of your dream. It will be a great and worthy task, but you must BEGIN.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute
What you can do, or dream you can; begin it;
Boldness has genius, power magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated;
Begin and then the work will be completed.
— Goethe
January 13, 2010 – 5:30 am
There are always so many things to do. There is work, kids, spouse, grandchildren, friends, housework, and yard work. In January there are winter challenges and tasks – shoveling snow, scraping ice, bringing in firewood, building fires and more.
January is also when we start thinking about taxes and about planning for the New Year and honoring resolutions. If the planning was already done, it is time to begin to put the plans into action.
In January there is so much to do. It is so very easy to become overwhelmed by all the things before us. It is also very easy to become so busy doing things that we forget to simply enjoy living.
Give yourself time to live, time to laugh, time to play and time to work. Try to keep it all in balance. If balance becomes elusive, give me a call – I can help you put it all back into perspective (203-855-9714).
“Prepare to live by all means, but for heaven’s sake do not forget to live. You will never have a better chance than you have at present. You may think you will have, but you are mistaken.” — Arnold Bennett
January 6, 2010 – 5:30 am
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
– Pamela Vaull Starr
Whether you call them dreams, goals, aspirations or something else, make them big; make them profound; make them worth your best effort. Let them draw you out of your past, away from your fears, and beyond any failures of the past.
Allow your dreams to become big enough to define your goals for every year and even for every day of the rest of your life. Establish for your life a roadmap to your dream, mapping daily steps to accomplishment of the whole. Then pursue the goal of each day with all your heart and all your joy.
Moving ever closer to your dream will warm your heart, will embrace the support and the involvement of others, and will light a fire that will inspire those around you to share both the trials of the journey and the celebration of success.
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