by Jim Rohn While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily working at building and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. And here sits the much larger group, wondering how life can be so unfair, so complicated and unjust. What's the major difference between the little group with so much and the larger group with so little? Despite all of the factors that affect our lives - like the kind of parents we have, the schools we attended, the part of the country we grew up in - none has as much potential power for affecting our futures as our ability to dream. Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path. To unleash this power, though, your dreams must be well defined. A fuzzy future has little pulling power. Well-defined dreams are not fuzzy. Wishes are fuzzy. To really achieve your dreams, to really have your future plans pull you forward, your dreams must be vivid. If you've ever hiked a fourteen thousand-foot peak in the Rocky Mountains, one thought has surely come to mind "How did the settlers of this country do it?" How did they get from the East Coast to the West Coast? Carrying one day's supply of food and water is hard enough. Can you imagine hauling all of your worldly goods with you... mile after mile, day after day, month after month? These people had big dreams. They had ambition. They didn't focus on the hardship of getting up the mountain. In their minds, they were already on the other side – their bodies just hadn't gotten them there yet! Despite all of their pains and struggles, all of the births and deaths along the way, those who made it to the other side had a single vision: to reach the land of continuous sunshine and extraordinary wealth. To start over; where anything and everything was possible. Their dreams were stronger than the obstacles in their way. You've got to be a dreamer. You've got to envision the future. You've got to see California while you're climbing fourteen thousand-foot peaks. You've got to see the finish line while you're running the race. You've got to hear the cheers when you're in the middle of a monster project. And you've got to be willing to put yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable and until you realize your dreams. -------------------------------------------- Marilyn L. Ali

Hello Marilyn, You always come up with such interesting subjects. Thank you for sharing. Dreams, do I know about dreams? I am a very optimistic type person and over the years I have developped many ways of getting me through the most difficult of times. I have told quite a few times;"Stay with us, you are already gone somewhere in your head where we are not!" or " Stop dreaming, stay in the real world!" or "Why can't you just be satisfied with right now!" or ...and the list goes on and on. To these people, I would say;"I am allowed to have my dreams and the day I cannot dream is the day I will have died!" I understand how difficult it is for soemone who is a little negative to stand with a dreamer and a very optimistic person. These mechanism, I believe have helped me through so many tough times and I always grant the most important thing for me along the way was my faith. I, by no stretch of the imagination am or have a perfect child of God, but He has been there for me always and like the footprints in the sands, so many times, I could only see one set of prints because He was carrying me (and I am not to skinny, so that must be why the prints were a lot deeper in certain areas). Sorry about going on, I said what I felt, Your friend, Louis http;//www.yorgoo.com/?1850

Hello my friend, Sometimes are dreams are all we have,Some people will say.Thank you for always sheding light on things for us,kathy martin

HI Marilyn, Its much like I have said, I can taste success. Never stop dreaming friends, thats where an idea starts! Thank you for sharing Marilyn. Lisa Lomas

hi Tank you for the incvtation to this forum i have to say i like your comment make me remember somethings in the past ( i was a kid)lol i use to think when i grow up ill be millionare then i make some goals while i dream awake in my dreams i share fortune with my familly and friends in my goals too but there its something when i talk about the goals and proyects my friends laught at me why? cause normal people think they can't never reach wealthy why? mostly times other sell the idea to succed you have to go to the college and get a job and thats the way to succed in the finacial live well rich people dont let this happen cause their goal keep them so busy and just by given a new step walking step by step you can reach the goals when you notice you are rich but this is because you keep doing the best without hesitation just focus in the goal so now i still dreaming but now when am going to bed lol but i make my goals awake and keep them in the track of every day one friend told me a crazy man do same things always expecting changes when the only thing he need its change what he is doing to get the diferent results i apologize for the grammar one more time tank you for the invitation to the forum i wish you a fantastic day