sharing her awesome life and her desire to have community while doing it!
What does it look like to fully lend
yourself to a dream, whether it is your own or someone else’s?
I think when we are contributing our
lives to someone else's dream, we find ourselves more spent and
less lent. We must be careful that we don’t spend most of our time pursuing the
dream of someone else.
For the sake of clarity, when I
say "dreams" I mean life goals -- your vision for your future, etc. My
dreams are embarrassingly grandiose, and I am okay with that. Having just enough
is too small a thing for me. I don’t mean to sound selfish but having just
enough for me and my family is limiting. It limits what I can do for others
and, you know me, I hate limitations. Ha!
Take a moment and get your dream in
front of you, mentally.
What do they look like? Feel
like? Smell like? Taste like?
How deep into this dream are you? Is
it something you remind yourself of daily? Is it this unattainable but great
idea? Is it so scary you leave it alone, only to think about it when probed?
Wherever is simmering inside of you, I encourage you to bring it into
focus. Let’s stay right here today, seeing our bright, bold, futures.
It is my opinion that being able to
envision my future is a sign of good mental health. There have been many
times when I could not see past the present situation and, during those times,
I was allowing stress, disappointment, and fear to overwhelm and cloud my
mind. It was like a barrier was created that prevented me from
hoping for my future and it takes hope to dream. So what do you do if you have
no hope? One of my most beautiful friends lived a life advocating hope. Click
here to learn from her about hope.
You see, I debated with myself about
writing on this topic today because my dream is just out of arm’s
reach. My arms aren’t quite long enough yet. I struggle with the balance of
pursuing a dream and being fully where I am, and I do jump through a lot
of mental hoops in the process. Because I dream so big, it sometimes
(probably most times) stops me from starting all together. I do all the
research, I consume excessive amounts of knowledge, and then, when it
comes to the hard part of walking it out, I stop. It’s not that I don’t
want to put all that knowledge into practice, it’s that I lack the discipline
to start. But I am working on that one.
Christopher Reeve put it perfectly:
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem
improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become
inevitable.”
Take some time this week and
dream fearlessly.
Thank you for reading.
See you next Tuesday!
Carrie
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