How To Get Passionate About Your Dream – Part 1

Over the next few posts I’m going to talk about how to passionate about YOUR dreams!  

“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.” – Sheila Graham

Do You Have A Dream?

I’m going to go faster. Now that you have your Dream and have committed to it, you’re probably experiencing some Divine Impatience. A part of you is saying, “Let’s get on with it!” And so we shall.

We move now from the mental realm–the world of discoveries, choices, goals, and commitments–into the emotional.

Although the mind can get the body jumping here or there, emotion is necessary for sustained activity. This section is about cultivating and channeling your emotional energy for consistent, persistent action.

There are a lot of different words for this emotional energy–enthusiasm (en theos, to be one with the energy of the divine), desire, and even obsession. The one I’m passionate about is passion.

The emotions are, however, controlled by the mind. What we think about determines how we feel. So, even though the goal of this section is to produce passionate emotions, much of the time I’ll be discussing the uses of the mind.

“Put all your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET!” – Mark Twain

To reach a dream, especially a Big Dream, we need an ally, something to counteract all the limiting emotions the comfort zone can dish out.

That ally is our passion. We must love and desire our Dream–and love and desire it intently—for our Dream to come true.

To paraphrase Mark Twain: “Put all your eggs in one basket–and LOVE THAT BASKET!”

Or, as Elbert Hubbard said, “Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed–there’s so little competition.”

Visualization

“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.” – Dr. Rob Gilbert

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real–a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

As I mentioned earlier, don’t let the word visual throw you. I’m talking about the imagination.

Some people primarily see in their imagination. Others primarily feel. Still others primarily hear. Whichever sense you use to access your imagination is fine.

How do you visualize?

What does it look, feel, or sound like?

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The same way you remember things, that’s how the imagination looks-feels-sounds. What’s the shape of an apple? What color is a carrot? (“Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?” asked the Amboy Dukes.

Does anybody remember the Amboy Dukes? It was back in the sixties. You had to be there.) What is your bathroom sink like? How clean is your car? However you saw, sensed, or heard those images, that’s what it’s like to visualize the future in your imagination.

But you know all this. You already have a sanctuary built-in your imagination, and probably a few taco stands, too. With such advanced readers, it must be time for a Pop Quiz!

POP QUIZ: Although the brain is only 2% of the total body weight, it consumes

25% of the body’s oxygen. What does this mean?

• If you feel short of breath, stop thinking.

• People without brains need 25% less oxygen.

• Our brains should be bigger.

• The body considers thinking an important activity.

• We should spend 75% of our time doing something other than thinking.

• You shouldn’t walk, think, and chew gum at the same time.

• Keep breathing.

“Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.” Sir Winston Churchill

In our imagination, what we behold we can become. What we have beheld in the past has made us what we are and gotten us what we have. If we want something different – something greater – we must think greater thoughts.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes meandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We’re especially responsible for the thoughts we put there.

It’s time to plant a Dream crop of positive visions. It’s time to focus on the positive; to hold an image of what we want; to see, view, play (s’il vous plait) our Dream.

Or, worded for our more negatively thinking friends: Don’t think about what you don’t want.

No matter what else you’re doing, think about your Dream all the time.

Live your Dream in your imagination.

Become obsessed by it.

Fall in love with it.

Court it.

Seduce it.

Marry it.

Become passionate about it.

To paraphrase Churchill: Never lose in your imagination. Never. Never. Never. Never.

It’s your dream. Your imagination.

Why on earth should you lose there? Don’t. If you find yourself losing, turn it around. Call in a cavalry charge. Bring on your Fairy Godmother (one of your Master Teacher’s many outfits).

Whatever it takes.

In your imagination, always come out on top, always be victorious. Always win.

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

If you feel you are underwhelmed by your dreams and want to kick it up a few notices, I suggest requesting an Introductory Consultation and let’s see what we can do together.