For your greatness, carry great dreams!
YOU carry the seeds of greatness and with patience you will do great things. Do not lose heart or despair because of your current station, or delays. Greatness is attracted to deep desire and bold dreams. Think big, dream bold and take solid steps forward. If you cannot dream there is no reason why you should sleep. If you cannot wake up to purse the dreams your hold, there is no reason why you should wake up. Before things fill your life, let them fill your dream journal and notes.
Good dreams will give you mileage. It is not the dreams that you dream with your eyes closed that matter most but the ones you dream with your eyes wide open. If you dare to dream, do so in colour and not in dingy grey tones. First a dream, then reality. Without a dream there is no seed to birth new realities.
Trapped in the current
Do not be trapped and swept away by the current circumstances you face. The present difficulties cannot be compared to your potential and the magnanimity of your future. See beyond your current problems and limitations.
Even if it feels as though there is a concrete wall in your face, there are possibilities beyond that wall. See differently in order to do differently. Seed what you want to see. Your dream is a seed. The simple steps that you are taking today are a seed.
There must be a big dream throbbing in your heart, that holds your attention and animates your action. Expose and stretch your mind to new possibilities to fuel your dreaming capacity. There is a wide canvas of possibilities beyond your limited thought span and current grasp.
Unless you can see beyond your current step you will easily become cynical and negative. Your negativity will not benefit you or inspire anyone. Being positive will not solve your problems, but it gives you a better platform and energy bank to work from.
The walking dead
The tragedy in life is not death, but walking with dead dreams. Refuse to be part of the living dead. If you are alive express life fully. Refuse to be part of the walking dead - those who do not dream or feel. Those who know no joy or pain. Those who can no longer dream or do anything. Express life and live to the full. Death is not big enough to kill any powerful dream.
No situation can drown a motivated soul. No amount of obstacles can kill a worthy dream. Dying should never be a convenient escape that you wish for. Refuse to die while you are still living. The saddest thing in life is that important dreams die while their host is still living. Life is more than just footing daily routines and sustaining metabolic functions. Living a lifeless, hopeless and dreamless life is not a reasonable way to pass through life.
Stop feeling pity for yourself and thinking that the whole world owes you a living. You are the one who owes the world rent. You pay rent when you serve others in worthy ways. The world was there before you were born and you will likely live it grinding on.
You are not part of the living dead. You have greatness in you and are faced with unlimited possibilities. See beyond the clouds of despair and the clods of desperation. There are possibilities everywhere. All of them depend on you and how you think.
Stop being obsessed with death and spend time thinking about life. Your thoughts shape your experiences, stop terrorising yourself with negative thoughts. Be obsessed with possibilities and not the constraints in your path. Refuse to be one of the living dead.
Keep the dream alive
Whatever you go through, keep the dream alive and be part of the dream team. Be like a rubber ball that bounces higher when struck down harder. Bounce higher than your challenges. Keep dreaming even when you are walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
A living dream is a powerful driver that motivates you and gives you sustained energy. You can be delayed but you can never be denied. Pursue your dream with all that you have got and keep learning all you need to know.
Half-hearted slumber is not a posture for greatness. The future is not some place somewhere that is coming but some dream you are realising. You are carrying your future already, currently shrouded in the dreams you have. Keep hope alive. Keep passion alive. Keep vision alive. Do not die in the winter of your life.
So you are here
Where you are today is not a terminal point but a good starting point. The discomfort you feel is an evidence that you are growing and you have not parked. Never let those who have abandoned their dreams tempt you to give up yours and join the chorus of malcontents.
Do not bring me a more detailed autopsy of your situation and problems, bring me a dream of the future. Whenever you do not see the future, you abuse the present. You can hug the clock but you can never stop time. There is a future and there is always space for a worthy dream and the crazy dreamer.
Big dreamers see opportunities when others only see problems. Where you are today is an important starting point, not a point of despair. Any day you decide to start living your life differently you start walking towards something big and exciting. Life is too big to be small.
Step out of your comfort zone and decide what life will be to you. Frame your future with your fertile imagination. The comfort zone is a place of death and defeat. Cast away the garment of laziness and complacency.
Press delete
You do not afford the luxury of a negative thought. There are words that you must delete from your thinking and speaking. Delete “impossible” because all things are possible and you can be whatever you dream and desire. Delete “negative” because you do not afford the luxury of a negative thought. While your are being negative Someone is laying big foundations and launching big things.
The language that you use determines what you become. Your words have creative potential. To change your life change your thoughts and words. You cannot afford to speak mindlessly, forgetting that it’s words that share life’s experiences.
Greatness is not as far as you think if you have an engaging dream list. The distance between you and your greatness is your thinking and resolve.
Make empowering lists
To fertilise your dreams make some lists that will inspire you and jolt you into action. Make a bucket list and keep adding to it. This is a list of all the things that you would like to do before your kick the bucket. List the books that you would like to read. Then work through that list. List the places that you would like to travel to. You may not know where to start but what is important is to start doing the list. List all the places that you would like to visit.
List the things that you would like to own. List inspiring people that you would like to meet. Keep your lists handy because they inspire you to dream. Explore more lists and build on them. Set out everyday to pursue something worthy and exciting. Life is too big, too challenging, and too exciting to be boring.
Committed to your greatness.
Milton Kamwendo is a leading international transformational and motivational speaker, author and coach. His life purpose is to inspire greatness. He can be reached at: mkamwendo@gmail.com and Twitter: @MiltonKamwendo or WhatsApp at: 0772422634