Dear
Loving People,
It’s most
probable you have come across this 16th century proverb "If wishes were
horses, beggars would ride." Why do you think its still lingering in
common parlance till date? Its because, it succinctly depicts the billions of
passive dreams many a people have resigned to. The proverb suggests that it is
useless to simply fold your arms and wish for our world to transform. The
bottom-line truth whether we like it or not is that better results can only be
achieved through concrete action. Why not and of course, if wishing could make things happen,
then even the
most destitute people
on earth would have everything they wanted.
Dreaming
of the life you want is essentially good because if you don’t have a specific dream
or aim in life, you’ll be less likely to take action on anything. The
complication comes however, when you dream and do noting about that dream on a
daily bases so simply put, stop delaying action on your dreams.
Some years back, I attended
a workshop facilitated by a medical Anthropologist, she so talked about her
field and social science in general that I decided it was time for me to become
a Medical Anthropologist. Despite the
fact that I was so obsessed with this new idea, three years passed by and all I
did was read about it and did nothing more so my dream remained just a whish
until the time when I finally enrolled in the University to study and
specializing in Medical Anthropology. I started feeling good, but not because I
was heading towards realizing my dream. I felt good because I was finally
taking action on something I wanted to do, instead of just going through the
motions.
I realized that the
time to begin working on your dreams is always RIGHT NOW. If there is a good
reason why you can’t do it now then the best time is as soon as humanly
possible. It’s normal for us to delay our dreams, to put them off by some
measure of days. But those days inevitably become weeks, then months, then
years, then a lifetime.
We tell ourselves,
“I’ll just get any available job even if I don’t like it for a while before
searching for the job I really want” or, “I will wait to have enough capital
before starting my dram business” or “I want to a music career, but I know my
family won’t approve.”
It’s natural for us
to delay our dreams. We think that there will somehow be more fertile ground
and more opportune timing in the future, so we feel comfortable perpetually
pushing them off because we don’t have to risk failure.
The
thing is, we have no idea what the future will be like, but we know one thing:
now is the exact perfect time to start. Now is the only time there is to start
working on your dreams. Make something happen. To create change in our lives and move
forward in achieving personal success, we must take action.
We can spend our
entire lives dreaming, thinking, planning and preparing to accomplish our
goals, but without action, those goals and dreams will never be anything more
than a desire. It is true that we must first know what it is that we want to
accomplish before we can move forward but in order to get from point A to point
B, our success essentially comes down to acting on our knowledge and plans and
taking the steps necessary to move forward. By taking action, we create the
movement that is necessary to make things happen.
Saying you are going to do
something and actually doing something are two different things. Life
is not just about how talented you are or how knowledgeable you are, but how
you take all of that skill in your craft and dedicate the necessary time to
move it forward. The process is never easy and if it were easy then everyone
would be able to do it, so why in the hell should it be so special?
It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but
your time is limited; you are eventually going to die. The average human being
lives 80 years, when you start looking at it like that, you realize how fast
this life is really going to pass you by. If you don’t start now, chances are
you’re just going to keep delaying your dreams.
Why not start now.
