The Choice to Dream It and Live It Again

With a new year starting and a new day, we have the chance to dream again. Some of us do a lot of planning at the end of the year gaining a vision and putting into place action steps to ensure a productive and fruitful year. There are hours spent, sometimes through weekend getaways, mastermind group meetings, brainstorming meetings or other like events to strategize and plan for our business or personal lives. We leave with a feeling of hope, confidence and excitement about what the future months ahead can bring. We create vision boards, write our goals out and put them on our refrigerator, in our wallets and on our office walls helping to keep the vision in front of our eyes and on our minds.
In all these things, I believe and do practice, not only at the end of the year but periodically throughout the year also.

What happens though when we find ourselves in October, November and December realizing not only did we not achieve any of our goals, we were so far off track we got lost somewhere along the way. We may slip back into questioning our motives, our strategies, our desires and even ourselves as to why we wasted so much time thinking we could accomplish something so outrageous.

At this time we are offered a grand opportunity, this opportunity is the chance and choice to dream again. Everything doesn’t always work out as we plan. There maybe some unforeseen problems or circumstances that try as we may, we could not plan for it and something happened beyond our control to detour us. But we can make a choice to dream again. Maybe a person we depended on to help us with an important project reneged and left in an untimely matter which caused our efforts to be delayed or halted all together. But we can make a choice to dream again. Maybe what we thought was the goal, after much thought and no progress in our efforts, we found was not the proper goal at all. We still can make the choice to dream it and live it again.

The problem with choosing to dream again lies between our own two ears. When we can get past the possible shame, guilt trip and embarrassment we place on ourselves, the process to make a choice to dream again is quite simple.

The first step is to believe in ourselves and our dream again. So it didn’t work this time. So things didn’t go as planned. So people let you down. So you let yourself down. Make the choice to dream again.

The second step is to be willing to take a look at your plan and rework your strategy. If things were going well and some unforeseen occurrence happened which was beyond your control, then pick up where you left off.

Lastly, surround yourself with people who are working to achieve their dreams and people who will support and believe in you. The choice to dream it and live it again is up to you. Following these simple steps will put you back on the fast track to achieving your goals and living your dream.

c/o 2013 Cynthia L. Hatcher