Achieving Success: Following your Dreams
One of the most difficult things to do in life is to attain the focus required to achieve the success in some particular sphere of life – to rise above the crowd. Talent can most certainly make things easier and help from outside influences can also lighten the load but even with the above we can still achieve nothing if we have not marshaled the required intensity to achieve the objective. A scattered focus produces a result much the same. Therefore a concentration of will, desire and activity must be generated before a worthwhile result can be brought into being.
How much of this “blood” is required is different for everyone. We all have different qualities and attributes that give us natural talents in specific areas of life. Some of us are artistically inclined and abhor managing things and others shine when given the chance to direct and organize people, things and ideas. Naturally, an individual of one predisposition will have a much harder time accomplishing goals directed toward the later. Therefore a key part of success is determining your natural abilities and the type of activities you have been “pre-programmed” for rather than beginning the long and arduous and likely frustrating process of re-programming that which is already there.
Kevin Costner gave a good quote on success during a television interview. He was asked about what the most important thing in the world was to him and his reply was this: “I believe the most important thing in the world for anyone is our dreams. If the ocean is our life and our ship is starting to sink and there is one last piece of wood holding us afloat then it is that which we call our dreams.” Our dreams our truly what keeps us alive when the moments seem the darkest and at the same time the lack of one is often the crushing blow for those that choose to give up on life. We must have a dream, a passion and a reason. We must have something that connects us to this journey we call life with every fiber of our being and every breath we take. Without it we become lost ships at sea wandering from port to port getting just enough provisions each time to wander into the next one cold, hungry and weary.
Our dream is our map and with it we began to establish an objective and with an objective we can plan for the journey knowing how long it will be and where we are going. Though we will still have setbacks and failures along the way, we can rest assured that we will make it through them by keeping our eyes on our eventual goal.
So we must ask ourselves before anything else in this life just one simple question. What is your dream? The Native Americans have a tradition of each young man or woman undertaking a vision quest upon their entry to adulthood and it is this vision quest in which the meaning and purpose of life is revealed. Though it may be veiled in mysticism is it not a better approach than today where more often than not we decide dreams for our children and our spouses and our loved ones rather then letting them find what is in their heart and pursuing it with all their might?
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