“Cherish your
visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprint
of your ultimate achievements”- Napoleon Hill
Years
ago in a small kindergarten classroom where my mother taught, I happened to
interact with some school kids who shared with me their ideas about their
future careers. Some of them predicted they would be Presidents, Doctors,
Lawyers and other reputable accomplishments when they grow up.
I was
partly surprised and partly not surprised about their various affirmations.
Partly not surprised because everyone needs to dream and so kids are no
exceptions. I was however amazed to experience that the sizes of the dreams
these children declared by their mouths were large and extra-large dreams. More
gladly, none of them included negative endings into their lives by exclaiming
unworthy statuses on themselves.
Let’s
take a brief thought of what a dream is and why it is necessary to be
developed. Many descriptions exist for the word “dream”. One of them tells us
about the sequence of events we see occurring when we are deep asleep.
Unfortunately, this concept is not about those night dreams in which we see
fantastic things, then wake up to realize they never existed. Oxford dictionary
of current English (3rd Edition) defines a dream as “a long help
ambition or wish” and that is what we are up to here. Dreams are thoughtful
imaginations that set a floor for one’s destiny to be designed. Dreams pinpoint
how things should be when time elapses. In other words, dreaming is the act of
envisioning the end result of something peculiar from a distance.
Being a
great dreamer doesn’t mean you are sitting on a throne at the moment; neither
does it mean you are having a fat meat in between your molars, nor you are
walking with your head in the cloud above everybody. It rather means, you are
setting a pace for achievements meant to be a fulfillment of your purpose.
“Every great dream
begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the
patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world”- Harriet
Tubman
Every
dream has in it its respective responsibilities. Your responsibilities equip
you with the skills to fulfill the appointment your dreams offer you. Below are
seven (7) facts about dreams and you need to believe and use them as you sail
through to graduate from being an aspiring achiever into being a real achiever;
1. Dreams fulfill your destiny:
Robert
E. Hughes in a public address declared; “it’s the independent American spirit
that built this country; - hardworking, entrepreneurs who believed in the
reality of their dreams”. A clear focus on the above quotation teaches us three
(3) lessons as follows:
1.
American
fore-fathers had dreams
2.
These
dreamers believed and worked their dreams hardly
3.
America
is a well-built nation today as dreamt many years earlier.
It therefore
means that today, which was the future of yesterday, is a fulfillment of a
dream once created and hoped for and believed and worked on. You owe it to
yourself to change the story of your future by dreaming today!
“Yesterday is but a
vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every
yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow, a dream of hope”- Anonymous
According
to Eleanor Roosevelt, “the future belongs to those who believed in the beauty
of their dreams”. By this, Roosevelt was not just referring to a merely live
future, but stressing on a future well fulfilled.
The life
you will live in the nearby future will surely have question to answer,
problems to solve and goals to accomplish. Do you know how you will provide the
answers to all those pressing requests? Edgar Cayce answers rightly; “dreams
are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions”
2. Dreams tell you are still alive:
“When you cease to
dream, you cease to live”,
said Malcom Forbes. From the scope of this concept, we can settle a fact here; thus
there is a difference between a person who is truly alive and another who is
merely breathing and that difference is a dream.
Anyone
who lacks dreams, lack an access to a fulfilled live. A fulfilled life is rated
by the number of dreams that fulfilled your purpose of existence as evidenced
by how swift you are able fly beyond every reasonable doubt to set your foot on
success. A person who has deficiency of dreams is the one who merely lives and
breathes without a thoughtful future and his / her wage is to stand still in
that dreamless future without any fulfillment.
“Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”- Langston
Hughes
3. Dreams make you an innovator:
With
well-defined dreams, you can be able to create something that was not in
existence until you took the courage and patience to dream and make a new thing
altogether or make something already existing in an uncommonly excellent way.
A
dreamer brings in things that are marvelous and serve as a role model for other
to imitate. A dreamer also sees the dawn earlier before anyone else wakes up.
This was what Oscar Wildes was trying to decode in his quotation when he
said;
“Yes, I am a
dreamer. For a dreamer is the one who can only find his way by the moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world”
Dreamers
are leaders because they pave the ways for people to trek on and they win in
their own style. Take your time to dream big and you will discover the
responsibilities to accomplished them. Keep saying and confirming it in your
life “I have a big dream” and you will never get bored to fulfill the
responsibilities you have identified to respond to with your abilities.
4. Dreams are raw; actions cook
them;
The
first step in accomplishing you dreams is the discovery of your purpose. Next
to follow is dreaming about the fulfillment of the purpose you have discovered.
That purpose becomes achieved the moment actions are perfectly taken to fulfill
the dreams dreamt about.
“A dream doesn’t
become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work”-
Colin Powell
It is
very obvious that spectators and bench player in a football stadium have a
negligible influence on the ability of a football team to win. It’s only those
who dress up and enter the game to change the worsts to the bests that have the
credibility and quality to be called real dreamers.
You may
have a dream or a vision towards an achievement of something eyes have not yet
seen, but without actions, bet me; it’s just a fantasy that ends in thoughts and
words. Remember, thoughts do more, words do much; but actions do much more.
“Vision without
ACTION is merely a dream. ACTION without vision just passes the time. Visions
with ACTION can change the world”- Joel Barker
You must
be willing to be responsible for the actions needed to have the dreams you
dreamt fulfilled. Take a close notice of this fact; “Happy are those who dream
dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true”- Anonymous.
Wake up to cook up your dreams to the best taste of the world. Start now!
5. Dreams position you well:
It is
very obvious that anyone who dreams and works towards the fulfillment of his
dreams is carried automatically from a state of deficiency to a state of
affluence. A dream worker meets new friends, new discoveries and new areas of
success to recover. Remember, to meet those new dimensions, beware of how you
position yourself. Not every position on the football field is conducive for
goal scoring. You can’t be at an offside position and still think you can score
a genuine goal.
Dream
big and offer your dreams to put you in the right position for their
fulfillment. Mike Tyson once said, “I am a dreamer, I have to dream and reach
for the stars, and if I miss a star, then I grab a handful of clouds”.
When you dream about biggest things, you will by all means capture bigger
things. And if your dreams are bigger, the worst that may ever happen to you is
to achieve big things.
6. Dreams are not
expensive:
Dreams
are not costly at all. It does not take anything from you to dream big! You
don’t pay anything to anyone in order to obtain permit to dream. No
organization, not even an agency, governmental or non-governmental has ever
been given a task to determine the size of people’s dreams. It would have been
unfair on the sides of great achievers we see or hear of today if dreams were
to be directly proportional to the money they have had in their pockets
initially.
It takes
a child to dream; it equally takes an elderly person to dream. Rich men and
paupers, all have an equal privilege to maximize the length and breadth of
their dreams anytime, anyhow and in any way! Don’t stop dreaming! Dreaming doesn’t
stop the moment you are old. “You are never too old to set another goal or to
dreams another dream” (C.S Lewis). You have the whole time of your life to
dream. It is free!
7. Dreaming is not a crime:
Nobody
had ever been arrested yet on this earth on account of over-dreaming! It
therefore means as long as you can dream, you have neither offended the
monarchs nor the Pope!
If dreaming had been a crime, the world would
have been the same way it was few minutes after creation; no castles and no
gadgets would have been in existence if it were so. All the past and present
heroes we see or hear of who have contributed to make the earth a place of
comfort would have spent the rest of their days in jail if dreaming were to be
an evil act. You are safe to dream!
“Man alone has the
power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man alone, can dream and
make his dreams come true”- Napoleon Hill
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