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.
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.
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
“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.
“First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus, Discourses
Who do your dreams call you to become? How will fulfilling your dreams transform you? If fulfilling a dream will not make you better or stronger is it worth pursuing?
I am convinced that as we reach the second phase of our lives and we are given the gift of a chance to pursue our dreams, we owe it to ourselves to pursue only worthy dreams. The others are probably best left in the memory of the years of our immaturity.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Throughout our lives we dream of a future we would like to design. From childhood dreams of a world filled with lollipops and cotton candy, available to us every moment, our dreams change to what life would be “if only.” In time, our dreams mature apace with our lives and we dream of a future more beautiful, more compelling and more perfect than the reality of life at the moment.
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
– Victor Hugo
Human history glows with the truth of Hugo’s words. Human civilization has progressed through every age because courageous people dared to dream a better future and then dared to make it true. If you doubt it, pick up any novel by Victor Hugo and read the beautiful and transformative stories of those who dreamed and whose dreams shaped the future.
Enjoy a Break
Time passes by so quickly, as though digital timekeeping has sped up the Earth’s rotation. Our routine is set at exact times. Things get done like clockwork. And we are slaves to our routine, from the moment we wake up to the time we close our eyes.
One Minute Retreat
You may not know it but it even adds up to that tummy bulge we often call “middle aged spread.” Blame it on leptin, the protein that’s depleted when you’re always beating deadlines and chasing after the subway train every day but, it’s the same protein that knocks off your appetite control, causing you to eat when you really didin’t want to or don’t need to.
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