You have to have a dream. A dream so powerful you would be willing to light the match and leave all else behind (see Ben’s Day 12 Post). This is more then a tool to help you form a habit, it is the undercurrent that flows behind everything that you do.
I obtained a boat a few years ago and tried to start using it in San Diego harbor. The hardest part was docking it. It took me over a year to learn that despite my motors turning propellers, there was this constant force of wind and current that is always at play. With that force behind you, you will glide smoothly and with little resistance. Pushing against you and you will struggle and discover that bringing the boat about in a tight turn is not so easy. I have some permanent hull damage to reinforce that concept!
The point is the natural force that guides, reinforces, strengthens, and propels you forward has to come from within. In honor of MLK, that has to be a powerful dream.
The more powerful the dream, the stronger the current. The more nautical miles you will put behind you each day as your weak and feasible efforts try to paddle ahead. Go with the flow, but go with the flow of your future vision. It is amazing how things just come together when you are in the channel.
When you first discover this power you will experience what the great philosopher Crush expressed as: “First you were like WHOA! Then we were like WHOA! and then you were like ..whoa..”
This is true power. When your dream, that future vision, becomes one with your actions.
The challenge is many of us never take the time to articulate to ourselves what that dream is. We do not write it down, we do not work on it. How can you possibly hope to achieve something that you have not thought of? Were you expecting life to accidentally drop success on your doorstep?
Sorry, does not work that way. God, the cosmos, the great spirit nor whatever you subscribe to all seem to come from the same camp. You have to ask first, you have to seek in order to find. That implies that you know exactly what you are looking for. As I think about what is the most important things for me to do in a day, the most important is making sure that I remember that future vision of myself that I created. Really think about that, have that vision, that dream.
As you do so, each day, your actions will become magnified by that unseen current and as you build momentum that dream will become a reality.
Guy Reams (380)
365 Alumni
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