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One must first dream, then to make those dreams more real, apply them to paper in words that impinge upon reality. Reality required to acknowledge and begin to make real your dreams when they move from mere ideas and for the first time breath in the newborn light of reality, unfolding upon paper anew.
But you're far from done. You must write and then re-write and re-write and re-write and re-write. Many a writer has said that writing isn't so much writing as it is re-writing (one writer re-writes each page a minimum of 20 times). Each go through of your ideas building off the newest connections from the most recent re-write, creating new bridges to existing ideas and ideas to come. Oftentimes ideas will come in partial lumps waiting patiently for you to come back and pull them through the murky unknown to known to brilliance and insight.
And as you move along, pursuing your goal(s), they will inform you of the details, the adjustments made in flight, for in reaching for new heights, one must shoot first and aim as you go. For it is the waiting, the re-thinking that causes doubt and confusion, goals unfulfilled.
Remember in the beginning when your goals excited and energized? But over time you lost enthusiasm because someone doubted you, told you you're crazy, that you're wasting your time: "You'll never do it." And other detractors and distractions sap the energy of your dreams. But if you drop your dreams they will drop you, slack jawed and saddened, empty, living as the walking dead, as so many, too many live out their lives.
It is better to be dead than to live what others want to take from you, a dreamless life. Let them fail in life. Let them live unfulfilled, boring, deadened existences. Let them go to their graves with greater regret, for our reason for being is to win the Regret Game. He who dies with the most toys does not win here, but he who dies with the fewest regrets wins now and forever, for what do we take with us but only our thoughts, words, and deeds.
So be a doer. Give to yourself the greatest gift: goals pursued and achieved. For the universe helps those who do what they know they were put here to do. And if you don't know or believe you have no special genius, stop listening to detractors, society, "friends," and liars, and listen to the whispers of truth floating on the breeze of dreams, your dreams waiting, only waiting, for you to take actions for them to take flight. God bless.
Goals:
"Goals...There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them."-- Jim Rohn
"People who say life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile... Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project... Always have something ahead of you to "look forward to"--to work for and to hope for."-- Maxwell Maltz
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."-- Les Brown
"A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement."-- Gary Ryan Blair
"It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise."-- Goethe
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."-- Dodie Smith
"This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force."-- Dorothy Parker
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."-- Dale Carnegie
"The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny."-- Frederick Speakman
"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are."-- Arnold H. Glasgow
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."-- Laurence J. Peter
"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."-- Jim Rohn
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life."-- Joseph Campbell
"We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are."-- Jim Rohn
"No one rises to low expectations."--Jesse Jackson
"We tend to live up to our expectations."-- Earl Nightingale
"Setting goals provides man with an excuse to stop before he has exhausted all efforts to reach his maximum potential."-- David V. Ellison
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."-- Lord Chesterfield
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."-- Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do?"-- Jim Rohn
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."-- Napoleon Hill
"I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future."-- David Copperfield
"It may be that those who do most, dream most."-- Stephen Leacock
"Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them."-- Phantom F. Harlock
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."-- Carl Gustav Jung
"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought."-- Leon Blum
"Great souls have wills; feeble ones only have wishes."-- Chinese Proverb
"Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible."-- Author Unknown
"To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service."-- Oliver Goldsmith
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit."-- Aristotle
"The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with themselves, and when they lie on their deathbeds, they have few regrets."-- Charlie Kaufman
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."-- Benjamin Mays
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."-- Andrew Carnegie
"The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent."-- Edgar W. Work
"What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal."-- unknown
"The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome."-- Helen Keller
"The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit."-- Jim Rohn
Jeff has written 100's of essays and articles;over 50 poems; and several books: Now available are his motivational works Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe at Amazon.com and ToDie at the Age of Man at Lulu.com; Coming soon: Give and Grow Yourself Rich (May, 2008); Education is a Waste of Time, (late 2008); and a children's novella The Search for Adriana (late 2008). Currently, he teaches writing and owns Inner Projection, a self-improvement business.
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