Are You Brave Enough To Dream Alone?

One of the hardest parts about the actual process of living our dreams is realizing that there are people who are close to our heart who will not see things the way you do. Time and circumstance has limited their view. You want so much for them to understand what it is that has you fired up and inspired. You long for the day when they come to you and say “hey, I get it…how can I help?” Instead, that day never comes. The truth of the matter is that what is for you is for you. No matter how hard you try to convince some people to believe in your dreams, to the best of their ability, they cannot. Are you brave enough to dream alone?

Of course this can slow us down a bit. It can break your spirit and kill our momentum if we let it. Let’s dissect this for a second. You find yourself becoming passionate about something you can see yourself doing. You really believe that you can make it happen. That thing has begun to wake you up early and it keeps you up late at night. You really think that you have finally found where you fit. You excitedly run to the people who you believe in most, be it family or friends. When you share with them your great revelation they laugh, shake their head and look at you as if once again you have lost your mind!

You will have to find a way to excuse them. You see, these are the people who have known the most intimate sides of you. These are the people who have seen you in your most embarrassing situations. Sometimes it’s difficult for them to picture you as being serious or committed to something because they had a front row seat to all of the times you were not. In their eyes, this is just another chapter in your book. It’s another phase you are going through and they wish you would just wake up and do like everybody else. Play it safe. Color inside the lines. Good enough is okay. I guarantee that the day you settle for what others expect from you when your own expectations are far greater, a part of you will die a little each passing day. You my friend have just given up on dreaming.

Author, James Allen wrote in his classic “As A Man Thinketh,” this excerpt in relation to dreams:

“The greatest achievement was at first a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg. And in the highest vision of a soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

If that thing that has you so very excited is truly worth your time, do your homework. Pay your due diligence. Rip it apart and truly ask yourself if this is something you want to invest yourself into. Prayer and meditation are always recommended! Once you have made the decision for move forward, jump in with both feet, burn the bridge and don’t ever look back! Even in the midst of what some may define as failure lies a blueprint for the type of prosperity on a select few will ever know. Sadly, most of us will never do this. It’s just a statistical fact. Actually,only 3-5% of the population will find the freedom they see in their dreams. Maybe that’s why they control about 90% of the world’s money. That’s a completely different subject though….

Right now, I just want you to begin focusing on your dreams. If you don’t have any, get some fast. Your dreams are the only things that will sustain you when everyone else fails you. I recently watched a video where Tony Robbins explains that the only path to having the things you desire is to first experience them in your mind. If you cannot see yourself being successful, you will never become successful. That my friend is the dividing line between living your dreams and having no dreams to live for.

Until the next post….remember….

Dreams mean work!

One Response to “Are You Brave Enough To Dream Alone?”

1. DaJournalist says:

   August 31, 2009 at 7:14 am

   It is feeding me! I love Lou Riley Live!!!