Follow Your Dreams in 2005

We start out in life as dreamers.
Kids talk often about their dreams :

"When I grow up I'll be a.... "
"When I'm big I'll buy a... "
"I'm going to live in a... "

And adults think it's OK for kids to dream. After all, they "don't know any better", and it keeps them busy, out of our hair!

But as we grow older, we let people, circumstances, "reality", self-limiting beliefs rob us of those dreams.

We settle for much less, and spend the rest of our days pining for what might have been.

I'd like to tell you here that God put those dream-seeds in you as a child because He knew you didn't "know enough" back then to reject them.

You need to hold on to the dreams God gave you.
They are His gift to you, for a better life.

He has given you all you need to make them come true.
If only you'd stop looking in the wrong places!

You've got everything you need to get started, even if to you it looks like nothing!

Strangely, following your dreams, rather than giving in to the dream thieves, is the path to true satisfaction.

You'll never be happy doing anything else.

Why follow someone else's dreams when you can have your own?

I recently wrote that:

"Most people do not have the courage to follow their dreams.
They ask:

What will people say?
What if it doesn't work out?
How will I find the money?
Where will I find the time?

Most are defeated before they even start on their dreams.
They say:

I don't have the skills.
I don't have anyone to help me.
I can't do it.
I don't know anyone."

Excuses, excuses, excuses.
You've made them for so long that you now believe them!

Let this not be you in 2005.

Decree death to all your dream thieves (but please, not the people)!

Resolve to dig up your childhood dreams, see if you still want them, and GO FOR THEM if you do!

They're yours for the taking, believe me.

In my next post later this week, I'll talk about the "How" of following your dreams.

Meanwhile, ponder this:

You'll either live your life DRIVEN by your DREAMS,
or RUNNING from your NIGHTMARES.
-Omafuvwe Edoja

Copyright 2005 Oma Edoja