Yes Virginia, Dreams Are Possible!

Even if sometimes they seem impossible .…

We’ve all had ‘those’ dreams…. The ones where we dream that our bank account is loaded with cash, giving us the freedom to live our lives as we please. Buy what we please, go where we please without ever having to count the cost.  

For many people, the closest they come to realising this dream is a trip to their local lotto kiosk to buy their weekly lotto ticket. Along with the millions of others who do the same thing. All dreaming that impossible dream – that they’ll somehow wake up one morning and find themselves on the list of ‘newest’ millionaires. Or at least a few thousand dollars richer.

Unfortunately for most folk, that’s all it ever amounts to – a dream. Your lotto numbers never seem to come up, or if they do, hundreds of others also had those same numbers. And if winning lotto is the highest you aspire to, then that’s fine and may you be that lucky one in a million whose numbers come up in the top division.

For the rest of us – we need to learn how to aspire higher. Set goals that, whilst achievable, challenge us and push us outside our comfort zone to achieve more than we’d usually achieve.  We need to get over thinking we ‘can’t’ do something because, sure as eggs, if you think you ‘can’t’ do something, you won’t do it. If you believe it’s too hard to create an income for yourself that will achieve all those things you dream about, then it will be too hard. If you think being rich beyond your wildest dreams is unattainable, it will be. Guaranteed. BUT only for YOU though, not for anyone else who is prepared to dig deep and find the resources within themselves to get the hard things done.

Think about all the things the human race has achieved…. We can soar with the birds but 200 years ago that would have been thought impossible. Lucky for us the Wright brothers thought otherwise and were prepared to work hard to achieve their dream – that one day mankind would be able to soar with the birds. 

It’s the same for most other inventions that today we take for granted. Someone, at some time, had a dream but instead of believing that their dream was unattainable, or hard, or impossible, they set themselves a goal to DO it. Whatever it took. And by and large, most of them succeeded. Limiting yourself with self-doubts, with self-limiting assumptions, WILL surely limit you. But if you take hold of your dream with both hands, if you break it up into attainable goals, and if you steadfastly stick to achieving each and every one of those goals you will inevitably find that, before you know it, your once impossible seeming dream is within touching distance. The impossible has become possible….

It was Thomas Edison who famously said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Unfortunately, most of us prefer to think of success as being the other way around – 99% inspiration and 1% perspiration. It isn’t.

What’s your dream and how close are you to realizing it!