Just Remember: DREAM

We usually start off a New Year eager to see what it brings and excited to make some inroads into areas we might have been toying with for a while. Yet, as the weeks and months slip by, we are painfully aware that the time is going fast, while we remain stagnant.

We can quickly feel as if we have been swallowed up by our daily responsibilities and sinking further down in the pool of all work and no life. Additionally, what little snippets of time or puffs of energy we have left over are pressed into duty by an odd demand here and an odd demand there. Before we know it, we have lost our way, misplaced our list of goals and even worse, our dream is missing in action.

Is this where you are now, today?

Even if you have to forego chasing your dream for a while, you don’t necessarily have to give up all together. When you are too busy and exhausted to do anything else but fall into bed and wait for sleep to come, take a minute to use the word DREAM to remind you of the goals you want to achieve and to keep you inspired and excited about them.

D – Dare to Dream Your Dream

With all the commitments on your plate right now, the timing might be all wrong to go after your dream. Nevertheless, don’t let anyone play down its importance to you.

Well-meaning individuals can be blind to the passion you harbour in your heart. Steeped in their own opinions, they are deaf to your explanations and plans. Sometimes it is impossible to avoid such people. So you learn quickly to devise ways to survive their efforts to change your mind and steer you in a different direction. Arguing and fighting may never change their minds or help them to understand.

So I suggest that you be gracious in the face of their advice, criticisms and even their dismissive remarks.

A quiet but resolute stance will keep the dream alive, build your confidence, strengthen your determination and empower you to take the first steps when the time is right. Refuse to let the ammunition of negativity to penetrate and destroy it. Regardless how far-fetched it may seem to others, dare to dream your dream.

R- Renounce Your Fears

Fear is a killer of dreams. It conjures up negative images of you at your worst and your dreams shattered at your feet.