Time To Wake Up!

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

- Paul Valery

 (1871-1945) French Poet

Personally, I think dreamers are wonderful.  It is the dreamers of our world that keep life interesting.  They are full of ideas and their creative juices are always flowing.  To the dreamer, impossible does not exists.  Each day is greeted with a new thought, idea or plan.  However, (yes, there is always a however), there comes a time for every dreamer to wake up and get going.

                Even the best dreams and ideas are only smoke until action is added to the vision.  Action is what makes dreams reality.  Action is what puts flesh on an idea and causes the impossible to become possible.  Dreaming alone cannot achieve a goal or bring success, it can only, in the end, bring disappointment and frustration to what could have been greatness.

                Here is where many people go off the track.  They believe, or are told by others, that to achieve the goal they must stop dreaming and get to work.  The get to work part is correct, again, nothing happens without taking action, but you never stop dreaming. 

                The dream is the life force.  The dream gives the vision of what action needs to be taken.  The dream is the motivator and the inspiration that all action and planning is built on.  Once the dream is gone the goal disappears into the mist like Brigadoon, never to be seen again.

                Success-minded people must know that they can never stop dreaming.  In fact, the bigger and grander the dreams the better.  What they must do is start to bring that dream into reality.  What do you need to do to start seeing the dream come true?  What is the first step in the plan of action?  What is the second step, and so on?  Now, start to do the work it will take to achieve the dream and you are on your way.

                People without a dream are empty and lost in a world of the mediocre.  They have nothing great to achieve because they allow nothing great to come in.  You can change that.  We all have different talents and abilities and no one is able to do everything, however, we all have one talent in common, we can all dream.  Each dream is different, unique and special to you.  We don't all have the same dream, but we all can dream.

                Allow yourself to dream and develop great ideas.  Just remember that without action, that dream will go on farther than your head.  With action, that dream can lead to greatness that will change the discover the unknown and change the world forever!

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