Pamplemousses’ Botanical Gardens, Mauritius, August 2012
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
To dream is to achieve. Without a dream, one cannot move. Any project begins with a vision, a foresight to move along. Life goals are those targets far away in the future for which we have to move towards often doing so in small steps. Any achievement may not have emerged without conceiving it in the mind first and foremost before taking actions towards it.
How we see that future unfold depends on our vision of life. Whilst many will have some vision about what they would want to do or not do, others will simply be contented and whirl away in the forces of nature and let things just be. Others will have a goal to work towards; some which are authentic at outset and indeed take steps towards making it a reality but only to succumb within a few days or others much later. A new year always brings along new hope, new aspirations and somehow resolutions emerge: ‘Oh yes, I shall be endeavouring to this with newly acquired energy’; would be a thought of many.
The dream is not real. It is simply a verbal or mental statement without too much commitment. It lacks a factual, real element to it…therefore, no commitment at all. It is plainly superficial. That is why New Year resolutions remain unfilled and we give up as easily as we started our resolves. The lack was precisely that element of trust in ourselves in that we fail to perceive that beauty inherent within that dream. Rather, it was pursued without much thought or started haphazardly or without much reflection; hence the failure to abide by this.
Others have dreams that have been carefully nurtured, dreams that have been felt not only superficially but with the mind, body and wholly. Because it is so, it is a goal that one has set with a futuristic vision. This may not necessarily be a non material vision. As long as this is an authentic vision, one who endeavours such desires or goals may have one’s wishes fulfilled. The simple reason being is that there is the intensity and a vision to be. Another way of putting this is to say that, there are more reasons for it to be fulfilled than not to precisely because the proposer has actually felt it completely.
I shall only be pro-active to those aspects of my life which are of extreme importance to me. Where there is a lack; there will be no intent, without intent there will be no resilience and without resilience can there be pro activity as it all crumbles in the realm of reactionaries and or finding thousand of excuses not to move forwards.
One who sets a goal based on a dream needs to be consciously aware of what one may achieve. One must feel it and be in it in the mode of the future. This being so, one easily have tasted it fully and have been there. Once the dream is apprehended, then the mind takes appropriate steps towards that dream of the type that Yohann Wolfgang Von Goethe reminds us of ‘’Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.’’
So that dream must be BIG if we are to follow Von Goethe’s dictate since small dreams cause us to stumble sooner or later. What is required is that which will make us live it, feel it, taste it and be it. The Maitri Upanishads talks of ‘one own thought is one’s world. What a person thinks is what he becomes’ That may not be so obvious with those who dare not dream but is simply contented in the pools of materialism where one simply be in the passivity or live as those epsilons, deltas or even alphas which Aldous Huxley warned us in his brave new world or even the Orwellian 1984. Choosing such a path effectively means a choice or not choosing to involve a choice which shatter our being in the world where we are ensnared by those small dreams, nay those little dreams that corner us into subjectivity where we cannot shrug free and move along since with that choice comes limitation or a desire to remain fulfilled within the realm of the small dream and with that comes the notorious attitude contrary to the spirit of real freedom where one engages fully, actively or pro actively to put it more ‘coolly’. And so we succumb or fall prey to reactionary forces since we would be cut off as there is no real reason to be and dare-ness to dream BIG!
The challenge remains for us is that can we make our dream that big so that we may endeavor to achieve it in that even if it be within our non-comfort zone for often that BIG dream is about moving onwards and forwards outside of our arena where we are called upon by our inner conscience to adopt strides in full commitment to achieve that desired goal. My question for you is you ready for it to dream and achieve as Zig Ziglar stated years ago ‘If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.’ But as I was saying THAT DREAM MUST BE BIG… What do you think?
In a way a dream is like a goal, a life goal which we may set up or can set up along with a coach and work towards it. A coach simply empowers one to achieve it as your enabler and inner conscience whilst within relaxation, there are ample strategies provided for simple dreaming.
Dare you dream big? Certainly mine for 2013 and beyond is!
Please accept my good wishes and may you make the right choice for the upcoming New Year.