Just Remember: DREAM

You can’t run from fear. It may be deep-seated and stem from a bad experience or some external conditioning and the history of your fear can seem real. But fear keeps you stuck. You cower in one corner of your life casting blame and complaining while your dream remains unfulfilled.

Stand your ground in the face of your worse fears and dismantle its hold on you.

E – Enlighten Your Mind

During the years when there was neither time nor money to allocate to pursuing my dream, I saturated my mind with related information. I am not advocating that you become an information junkie like I did and still am today. Instead, I encourage you to garner the kinds of information that could give you a head start when the time comes.

Sometimes though, too much knowledge can put you at a disadvantage. Because you have learned so much more than is necessary to approach your project, you become impatient with the systems and people you have to depend on.

Still, it is far better to begin with far more knowledge than you need. After all, an enlightened mind is a prepared mind.

A – Anticipate Success

If you doubt that you will succeed, you are already defeated. Because you had to put off the grand beginning you planned doesn’t mean that you’ll never get started. Since you are never too old to pursue your dream, success is simply delayed, not impossible.

Picture yourself taking the steps you need to take, accomplishing one goal after another and finally acquiring success. Anticipating success can lift you out of the doldrums of a hard day and difficult situations and keep you hopeful about successfully achieving your dream.

M – Maintain a Positive Attitude

The road to achieving your dream can be filled with stops and starts and long periods of no movement at all. When discouragements, failures, and diversions crop up as they often do, they can easily blind you to the positive aspects they bring. The willingness to look for the good encased in the bad is one ingredient that could prevent you from throwing your hands in the air and quitting before you begin.

This is not a hairy-fairy, pie-in-the-sky kind of attitude but a mindset based on prayer, dependence on God, gratitude, contentment, sacrifice, compromise and realistic expectations. In the midst of adversity keep a positive outlook on life and its experiences and a bright view of the future. Remember too, that whatever afflicts you today or blocks your path tomorrow, could be working for better in the end.

Throughout history many people who have accomplished their dreams, tell stories that are laced with the unexpected, disappointments, stumbling blocks and even failures. Yet their greatest joy is that despite it all, they were able to stay resolute, struggle through and make it to the end.

In time, you can tell a similar story. While you attend to the business of living today, keep your dream alive with one word, DREAM.