POINTS OF INTEREST
YOUR DESTINY YOUR CHOICE Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.
It’s crazy to think that majority of people do not have goals set for themselves. I’m not talking big dreams to be rich and successful with a mansion and a fleet of cars in the garage. But, I’m talking about the difference between just having dreams and actually taking the necessary steps to attain those goals. So what happens when people go their whole lives without ever coming close to their dreams? To be honest, I’m not sure. But, from what I’ve seen and learned, a big part of it is failing to create real goals. It’s time to make a choice. I am going to ask you some questions. Do you want to live life to the fullest, or are you content to just go along with the crowd and settle for whatever comes your way? It’s always your choice. As Abraham Lincoln so aptly wrote, “We’re just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” We adults
cannot blame our unhappiness on the environment, our upbringing, our family or friends, our jobs or anything else. We need to take responsibility for ourselves to be all we can be.
DO YOU STILL HAVE DREAMS? AND ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MAKING THEM COME TRUE? Start by writing your dreams down, the clearer the better. Don’t judge the possibility, just write whatever comes to your mind. Remember, what the human mind can conceive it can achieve! Be outrageous! Think big! You can do it - if you really want to. Maybe the poem written by Marianne Williamson demonstrates what I mean. The words are very powerful and were used by Nelson Mandela in his Inauguration speech in 1994.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be! Our playing small does not save the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking, so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. You are born to make manifest to the glory of God that is within us; it is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.”
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