You can do what you want to do. You can be who you want to be. You can achieve what you want to achieve; but, you must first believe in the message of enthusiastic positive dreams.
Enthusiastic positive dreams enable your mind to begin the journey that can forever change your life and career. In essence, your ability to follow those dreams can bring forth many new opportunities. Yes, opportunity can be found almost anywhere if you have an open dream-filled mind.
A bright young man entered the employment office of a large business to apply for a job that he had seen advertised. The human resources manager told him that he was too late. The company had received over 1,000 applications. The young man looked into the eyes of the HR manager and replied, “Well, how about hiring me to classify the applications?” Being able to look beyond the apparent futility of the present and project the possibility of what might be possible is crucial to being able to live your dreams as well as build opportunities.
Each person is given 24 hours per day to live and act to their fullest capabilities. You have so many great opportunities in each 24-hour time period to enjoy the best of life but also to make your presence felt. It is so easy due to our fast-paced, critical world to become consumed by what seems impossible. When this is done, you limit your ability to fully explore what is possible. When you allow that limit to control your actions, you indeed restrict your ability to excel.
Some critic will always come along and tell you how bad things are or why you cannot achieve a goal or change your circumstances. Most often they are miserable and want to transfer that misery to you. Keeping you miserable and restricted from allowing your dreams to direct your action allows them to make themselves feel better. As the old saying goes, “…misery does love company.”
When the debts are high and the income is low and you are simply ready to “throw in the towel” in your life or career path, think of these words from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s great, Self-Reliance, “Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place that divine providence has found for you…nothing, at last, is sacred but the integrity of your mind. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.” In other words, “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
Challenges are what make life exciting. As author and speaker Joe Griffith once said, “A determined person is one who, when they get to the end of their rope, ties a knot and hangs on.” Working through the critics and the setbacks will give you added “zest” and make the 24 hours you have more productive. Don’t allow yourself to be held back by fear, negative talk or thought or lack of faith in yourself. Dare to dream the enthusiastic positive dreams necessary to make your future bright. Opportunity and success could very well be only one dream away.
