Friday, August 30, 2013
DREAMERS COME TRUE
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them" (Orison Swett Marden). In my experience, I have found that people tend to follow the crowd, live life safely, and follow the guidelines that others have instructed them to live, in order to conform to what is acceptable within the general populous. What a crock! Where are the free thinkers, those that unashamedly stand for a purpose or passion in life? Where are those that not only look outside of the box, but transcend beyond what is thought to be the impossible?
We are the free thinkers, those of us that do not settle in life, but make life happen. We are the ones that question the status quo and challenge the limits that others have placed on themselves within their own lives. This life is a gift for us to explore, we are not to be bunched up like a herd of cattle waiting to be slaughtered in the end. We must not give in to the herd mentality, those that wish to tell us that it can't be done. You must believe in yourself and stand against those that would tell you that you are just a dreamer... as if that was a bad thing.
My fellow dreamers, do not be discouraged by the scoffers and pessimists of this world who have given up on their dreams because they believed someone who sucked the soul out of their own hopes at one time in their life. These are the zombies or the living dead that seek to discourage you from becoming, experiencing, and living the life that you dream it to be.
My friends, let it not go unnoticed that every dream must have an action that brings it to life within our world. Make no mistake, there are those that entertain ideas of dreams but fail to bring their dreams to life because they fail to act upon or take the steps necessary to bring their dreams to life. This step, this action, can be very scary to take at first but once launched into motion... it is as if your spirit is soaring to new heights of enlightenment...as if the shackles of life or prison door has opened up to allow you to live the life you chose for yourself.
Let us all learn from the hearts of our children in this world. Those beautiful little human beings that dream and live their lives in such freedom. Those untainted minds of pure imagination and promise of an amazing world that is revealing itself right before their very eyes. May we never tell them to stop dreaming... may we never kill the hopes that lie within the deepest threads of their existence. For it could be their dreams that change our world into a better place someday.
Whether our dream is to work within the world of arts, devote our lives to the service of others, become the next Internet Billionaire, develop a plan to solve the issue of world hunger, design a new invention that may have world-wide implications for the advancement of our societies, or just want to live the life we always dreamed of... then it is time for us to take charge of our lives and make our dreams come true.
Message From The Author:
There are too many messages out there in the world that tell others what they can and can not do... too many messages that tell children to grow up and stop dreaming, when in reality it is those dreams that create the world around us. I would hate to think about where we would be in life if the inventors and entrepreneurs of this world listened to that horrible message.
Thank you for taking the time to read my articles. I have never been a follower and have always taken charge of my decisions in life. It has always been my dream in life to empower others to realize their own. It is now time for those who believe in themselves, who are ready to take hold of their own futures, to stand out and be noticed. I encourage you to tell others about my articles and to look for our company's debut in the somewhat near future.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Embrace F.E.A.R. And Achieve Your Dreams
I am sure your heard the famous quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt which stated that the, “only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. In contrast, others constantly state that fear can paralyze a person’s ability to live a more fulfilled life. Unlike others’ advice, I am here to tell all of you that F.E.A.R. is our friend and that we should embrace it within our lives to achieve the dreams our heart has desired for so long. Do you want to know what I am talking about? Keep on reading.
Fear is a matter of perspective and that perspective is often taught to us by our social norms within whatever cultural or geographic location we have grown up in. From childhood we may have been taught that certain actions are considered inappropriate, certain thoughts should never be entertained or challenged, and possibly taught that the way other cultures do things are the wrong way of doing things in life. In addition, a lot of us may have been told to play it safe in life and not to make waves within our communities because those around us might take a negative outlook on what we are doing, criticize us, or even label us outcasts. There is a constant fear message to conform to the norm or be judged for your actions that is killing creativity and blocking positive advances in human development within this global village we all call Earth.
In fact, many great men and women of history that challenged the norm of their time were considered out of their minds. One case in point is a very famous theorist, by the name of Albert Einstein. After his publication of the theory of relativity in the early 1900s, he received a lot a criticism due to others inability to grasp what he was theorizing. Although after a careful and honest look at Albert Einstein’s ideas, his theory of relativity is widely accepted in international scientific communities today. When people don’t understand something, in most cases, they fear it, begin to reject it and then the criticism or violence comes shortly afterward. If people would let go of their fears, open their minds to new ideas, and personally experience the wonders this world has to offer, then half of our modern day squabbles would be solved from such a practice. With that said, dreamers become targets of the world’s criticism as soon as they express themselves in public.
Fear can come from within, as well. In fact, I am sure we all are familiar with the phrase “don’t worry yourself to death” which is honestly the act of a person becoming their own worst enemy. Sometimes we can talk ourselves out of doing something because we are not completely confident in our own abilities to achieve what we are after. I like to call this type of action “Self Talk”, which is that little voice a person hears inside their head which holds them back when they should be going forward in life.
In addition, worry can result from a person that may have actually been hurt or emotionally injured by their past experiences within a similar situation that has paralyzed them in the present. This personalized fear has to be faced and challenged directly in order to persevere in life. In this case, a personalized stereotype has developed that is actually limiting and hurting that person who created such a belief because it causes them to live in fear. They are not as free as they use to be in life and they have caged themselves in, with regard to that area of their life. Some examples of such a fear would be an experience with another culture. For example, let’s just say that an American insults or hurts someone from an Asian culture in some way. The fear that the Asian person can develop is that ALL Americans are like this and will hurt them, so they become highly suspicious and restrict their interactions with Americans from that day forward, therefore limiting their own ability to possibly develop wonderful relationships with other Americans over the years. How do these examples relate to our dreams?
These examples relate to dreams because the same thing can happen to someone who has a dream in life. As a dreamer, you may have been told by those close to you or those within your own societal community that your ideas are crazy and that you will not be successful by pursuing your own dreams. You may have had personal experience with other dreams or projects that you wanted to be successful but ended in failure. In addition, you may find yourself worrying about failure so much that you are at a stand-still in life, not knowing what to do next. Well, I want to express to you that you don’t have to live by others’ definition of fear any longer.
Since fear is a learned perspective from a particular development process that we engaged in through interactions with others in our lives, let’s redefine fear in order to help us discover our true potential in life. How can this be done? Simple… we are dreamers aren’t we? We pride ourselves in stepping out from the crowd and seeing the possibilities in things when others are still blindly following what they are taught to accept in life. So if this is the case, then we need to push the limits of our fears. Make fear work for us, instead of us being enslaved by its crushing hands. Fear is only as strong as we make it and fear is defined by how each individual decides to describe it in their life, so then… isn’t fear truly under our control if we are the ones defining it?
When facing fear in the face, we no longer need to bend to its wishes for our lives, but instead, we should redefine it into something that will encourage us to go on. To start you on the right path with regard to redefining what fear means to you, I would like to suggest an acronym that I discovered which spells out the word fear, but redefines the meaning into a positive affirmation. This acronym is “Face Everything And Rise” (F.E.A.R.). So the next time you find fear between you and your dreams, I want you to face it and rise because you define your own fears and can eliminate them just the same. Good luck and keep on dreaming.
Note From The Author:
It is time for us to stop giving in to what other people have told us to fear and start redefining the meaning of fear for our own lives. It is now time for fear to serve our needs and wishes throughout this life of opportunities.
I would like my readers to understand that we all have been programmed by our societies and our experiences in life to learn how to fear. The kind of fear that destroys dreams or prevents dreams from ever being born in life. I want my readers to know, as forward thinkers, that we do not and should not accept fear as an excuse to kill who we are inside. In fact, we see fear as we have defined it in our lives, so if we define fear then it has no power over us and we should choose to redefine fear's existence in our lives within a positive way in order to achieve our goals.
Fear is a matter of perspective and that perspective is often taught to us by our social norms within whatever cultural or geographic location we have grown up in. From childhood we may have been taught that certain actions are considered inappropriate, certain thoughts should never be entertained or challenged, and possibly taught that the way other cultures do things are the wrong way of doing things in life. In addition, a lot of us may have been told to play it safe in life and not to make waves within our communities because those around us might take a negative outlook on what we are doing, criticize us, or even label us outcasts. There is a constant fear message to conform to the norm or be judged for your actions that is killing creativity and blocking positive advances in human development within this global village we all call Earth.
In fact, many great men and women of history that challenged the norm of their time were considered out of their minds. One case in point is a very famous theorist, by the name of Albert Einstein. After his publication of the theory of relativity in the early 1900s, he received a lot a criticism due to others inability to grasp what he was theorizing. Although after a careful and honest look at Albert Einstein’s ideas, his theory of relativity is widely accepted in international scientific communities today. When people don’t understand something, in most cases, they fear it, begin to reject it and then the criticism or violence comes shortly afterward. If people would let go of their fears, open their minds to new ideas, and personally experience the wonders this world has to offer, then half of our modern day squabbles would be solved from such a practice. With that said, dreamers become targets of the world’s criticism as soon as they express themselves in public.
Fear can come from within, as well. In fact, I am sure we all are familiar with the phrase “don’t worry yourself to death” which is honestly the act of a person becoming their own worst enemy. Sometimes we can talk ourselves out of doing something because we are not completely confident in our own abilities to achieve what we are after. I like to call this type of action “Self Talk”, which is that little voice a person hears inside their head which holds them back when they should be going forward in life.
In addition, worry can result from a person that may have actually been hurt or emotionally injured by their past experiences within a similar situation that has paralyzed them in the present. This personalized fear has to be faced and challenged directly in order to persevere in life. In this case, a personalized stereotype has developed that is actually limiting and hurting that person who created such a belief because it causes them to live in fear. They are not as free as they use to be in life and they have caged themselves in, with regard to that area of their life. Some examples of such a fear would be an experience with another culture. For example, let’s just say that an American insults or hurts someone from an Asian culture in some way. The fear that the Asian person can develop is that ALL Americans are like this and will hurt them, so they become highly suspicious and restrict their interactions with Americans from that day forward, therefore limiting their own ability to possibly develop wonderful relationships with other Americans over the years. How do these examples relate to our dreams?
These examples relate to dreams because the same thing can happen to someone who has a dream in life. As a dreamer, you may have been told by those close to you or those within your own societal community that your ideas are crazy and that you will not be successful by pursuing your own dreams. You may have had personal experience with other dreams or projects that you wanted to be successful but ended in failure. In addition, you may find yourself worrying about failure so much that you are at a stand-still in life, not knowing what to do next. Well, I want to express to you that you don’t have to live by others’ definition of fear any longer.
Since fear is a learned perspective from a particular development process that we engaged in through interactions with others in our lives, let’s redefine fear in order to help us discover our true potential in life. How can this be done? Simple… we are dreamers aren’t we? We pride ourselves in stepping out from the crowd and seeing the possibilities in things when others are still blindly following what they are taught to accept in life. So if this is the case, then we need to push the limits of our fears. Make fear work for us, instead of us being enslaved by its crushing hands. Fear is only as strong as we make it and fear is defined by how each individual decides to describe it in their life, so then… isn’t fear truly under our control if we are the ones defining it?
When facing fear in the face, we no longer need to bend to its wishes for our lives, but instead, we should redefine it into something that will encourage us to go on. To start you on the right path with regard to redefining what fear means to you, I would like to suggest an acronym that I discovered which spells out the word fear, but redefines the meaning into a positive affirmation. This acronym is “Face Everything And Rise” (F.E.A.R.). So the next time you find fear between you and your dreams, I want you to face it and rise because you define your own fears and can eliminate them just the same. Good luck and keep on dreaming.
Note From The Author:
It is time for us to stop giving in to what other people have told us to fear and start redefining the meaning of fear for our own lives. It is now time for fear to serve our needs and wishes throughout this life of opportunities.
I would like my readers to understand that we all have been programmed by our societies and our experiences in life to learn how to fear. The kind of fear that destroys dreams or prevents dreams from ever being born in life. I want my readers to know, as forward thinkers, that we do not and should not accept fear as an excuse to kill who we are inside. In fact, we see fear as we have defined it in our lives, so if we define fear then it has no power over us and we should choose to redefine fear's existence in our lives within a positive way in order to achieve our goals.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Release Your Dreams
A
dream without a dreamer is like a bird without wings to fly. While this
may sound backwards to some, the reality is that dreams exist in an
ever-growing number within the deepest realms of our hearts and souls.
It is up to the dreamer to release these dreams into reality by taking a
leap of faith to bring them to life. Our dreams rely on us, just as
much as we rely on them. Without our dreams we exist within a hollow
existence and without the dreamer, our dreams will never take flight. So
how can we release our dreams into the world of reality?
In order for you to successfully tap into the true potential of your dreams, you will have to learn to explore your own existence. To look deep within yourself, in order to find your purpose and reason for being. What are your passions? What are your desires? What do you enjoy doing in life? What talents come natural to you? What do you have to work harder on to achieve? What do you want to share? Who do you want to influence? What mark do you want to make on this world? The answer to these questions and more will take deep introspection, which may either alter or compliment your current path in life.
It takes a lot of strength and determination to accept what you will find out about yourself. Some things may be expected, but others may shock you or even disappoint you at first. The sooner you accept what you have discovered about yourself, the sooner you will be able to sculpt yourself into the type of dream catcher you want to be. Oh, but the challenge doesn't stop there.
Once you have zeroed in on your purpose and can see your dreams within reaching distance, you must learn how to shape and master those dreams into a finely tuned instrument. It will not only take hard work, but sacrifices will have to be made in order for a dreamer to transform their dreams into reality. This hard work and sacrifice can cause some dreamers to lose hope, in the beginning, but later become the fuel that transforms their spirit into a dream catcher themselves. As their dreams develop all around them, it will be their introspection and preparation which will make their dreams become the reality that they are currently living. It is then that they have learned to release their dreams from the realm of impossibilities to the realm of possibilities.
In order for you to successfully tap into the true potential of your dreams, you will have to learn to explore your own existence. To look deep within yourself, in order to find your purpose and reason for being. What are your passions? What are your desires? What do you enjoy doing in life? What talents come natural to you? What do you have to work harder on to achieve? What do you want to share? Who do you want to influence? What mark do you want to make on this world? The answer to these questions and more will take deep introspection, which may either alter or compliment your current path in life.
It takes a lot of strength and determination to accept what you will find out about yourself. Some things may be expected, but others may shock you or even disappoint you at first. The sooner you accept what you have discovered about yourself, the sooner you will be able to sculpt yourself into the type of dream catcher you want to be. Oh, but the challenge doesn't stop there.
Once you have zeroed in on your purpose and can see your dreams within reaching distance, you must learn how to shape and master those dreams into a finely tuned instrument. It will not only take hard work, but sacrifices will have to be made in order for a dreamer to transform their dreams into reality. This hard work and sacrifice can cause some dreamers to lose hope, in the beginning, but later become the fuel that transforms their spirit into a dream catcher themselves. As their dreams develop all around them, it will be their introspection and preparation which will make their dreams become the reality that they are currently living. It is then that they have learned to release their dreams from the realm of impossibilities to the realm of possibilities.
Dreams exist whether we chose to acknowledge them or not. Without dreamers to release those dreams, those dreams will never have a chance to cross over into the realm of reality. It will be those who dare to reach within themselves and invest the hard work necessary to transform their dreams into a newly regenerated life, that will have the potential for a greater enlightenment of being and a happier life overall.
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