Are you an everyday achiever?
How many days do you sacrifice to meaningless activities?
I say sacrifice, because when you let any day go by without nurturing and spending time furthering your dream, you are killing previous progress. Let me say that again, you are killing previous progress. You may complain that others are holding you back, because you don’t make enough or are not appreciated enough or loved enough, or whatever your preferred excuse is, but the truth is that the killer of your dream lives within your home.
When you do not love and honor and respect your dream everyday, you are the murderer that is killing it while it sleeps. Your dream is like a baby in that it needs to be nourished, appreciated, loved, tended to. You must give your dream constant daily attention. Like a baby, if you do not spend time with your dream everyday, it will fail to thrive, and if you ignore it long enough, it may die. Life is already filled with too many doubters, haters, and challenges that would kill your dream; you cannot allow yourself to be part of the problem.
Today is the day you need to make a decision; you need to snap out of the deadly routine that is your life, because your dream is a matter of life and death. Your day to day actions either create life or reap death; your time is either spent constructively or it is squandered destructively.
Let me ask you again….Are you an everyday achiever?
Why not?
Is your dream not big enough?
Is it not important enough?
Do you have a dream or do you have a wish?
No one is guaranteed the next breath, let alone another day, so what part of you thinks that it is ok to let a day go without spending time with your dream? You have got to love your dream. You have got to touch your dream. You have got to see your dream. Your connection to your dream is only as strong as the last action you took to move it forward, and if action isn’t taken everyday, then you don’t want it enough.
I don’t care how busy you are. I don’t care how much you work. If you can’t make 15 minutes for your dream a day, then you are not worthy of your dream. It probably isn’t your dream; it is just something you think you should do or something you think it would be neat to do. Your dream is something you have to be willing to die striving to achieve, because you might.
Your life could end at any time and aside from loving other people, pursuing your dream will be the greatest work you will ever do. Your life is like currency that must be used or lost each day. Are you investing your time to make your dream come true, or are you using your time doing activities that will keep you where you are.
Each day you have less life within you, so each day we are sacrificing our lives to what we do. Is your dream worth dedicating your life to? If you said yes, then prove it. Every day, you must do a least one thing to advance your dream. I you are really passionate, you must do several things.
This essay and this moment is your gut check; do you have a dream or just a really pretty story to tell yourself and others?
Someday isn’t on my calendar, and tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone. Your power resides in today, which is the one day you don’t need a calendar for because you are living it right now.
So let me ask you one last time…Are you everyday achiever? (Hint…if your dream matters, the answer must be yes)
If you can still say no, then you just don’t want it bad enough.
1 comment November 18th, 2007
