Dear
reader, welcome to another moment of inspiration and motivation. What are those
things you desperately want to achieve? What is it you passionately want to
become?
The
fact is, you can achieve anything you desperately want to achieve, if you keep
the dream with you. If you are willing to keep the dream with you, you will
eventually achieve it, no matter how long it will take.
One
success story that powerfully buttresses the power of keeping your dream is
that of Monty Roberts. As narrated by Jack Canfield, America’s number one
success coach, in his bestselling book, How
to Get from Where You Are to Where You
Want to Be, when Roberts was in high school, his teacher gave the class an
assignment to write about what they wanted to do when they grew up. Roberts
wrote that he wanted to own his own 200-acre ranch and raise thoroughbred
horses. His teacher gave him an “F” and explained that the grade reflected that
he deemed his dream as unrealistic.
The
belief of his teacher was that nobody in the calibre of Roberts living in a
camper on the back of a pick-up truck would ever be able to amass enough money
to buy a ranch, purchase breeding stock and pay salaries of ranch workers.
Well,
Roberts’ teacher gave him another opportunity to rewrite his paper and get a
higher grade, but Roberts replied, “You keep the F; I am keeping my dream.”
Roberts
refused to rewrite his paper, but finished high school and went on to own his
own 154-acre ranch, which he called, Flag
Is Up Farms, in Solvang, California, USA.
There
in his ranch, he raises thoroughbred horses and trains hundreds of horse
trainers in a more humane way to join him to train horses.
Dear
reader, there are many lessons to learn from the success story of Monty
Roberts, but here are five lessons I
have distilled which I believe will be invaluable to every success seeker. The
lessons are:
1.
Dream Big
Big
dreams have one thing in common – they look unrealistic, they appear
impossible. When Marconi was struggling to invent the radio, people laughed at
him and tried the best they could to discourage him because they thought it was
impossible for any person to discover a way of transmitting messages over a
long distance through the ether. Marconi’s friends even planned to take him to
a psychiatrist thinking that he had gone insane, for insisting and believing that he could invent the radio
- something that appear unrealistic and
impossible at that time.
When
Professor Graham Bell was busy doing the best he could to invent the telephone,
people laughed him to scorn because they thought it was unrealistic and
impossible to come up with an invention that enabled persons to communicate
with each other regardless of the distance between them.
The
fact is, every worthwhile goal looks unrealistic, but you should not let that scare
you. IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT. Your passion, your desire, your
yearning for achieving your dream is a prophecy or a pointer to what you are capable
of achieving.
Begin
to dream big dream now and hold unto your belief that you can achieve it even
when no believes you can.
2.
Don’t Allow Any
Person to Write You Off
The
fact about big dream is that they are no respecter of persons. Big dreams are not
the exclusive preserve of a privilege few. Dreams have nothing to do with your
background. Where you are and what you are today do not determine what you will
become in future.
The
mistake of Roberts’ teacher was that he used Roberts’ background to write him
off. He thought it was impossible for any person from such a humble background as
that of Roberts to achieve massive success, but he was wrong. Roberts proved
him wrong.
The
lesson here is: NEVER ALLOW ANY PERSON TO WRITE YOU OFF. Never allow other
people’s negative opinion about you to hurt you or discourage you. Let others
keep their evaluation about you, but you keep your dream.
3.
Don’t Write Yourself Off
The
starting point to achieving great success in life is believing that you can
achieve whatever goal you set for yourself. The fact is, you can succeed if no
one believes in you, but if you don’t believe you can succeed, you will not
succeed even if every person believes you can.
Like
Marconi and Bell, your belief is what counts. Your belief is what keeps you
working tirelessly towards achieving your dream. NEVER WRITE YOURSELF OFF.
Regardless of the situation, regardless of how many times you have ried and
failed, you can still make it. As long as you are still alive, all things are
possible. We live in a world of possibility and when you believe you can make
it, you will surely find a way of making it.
4.
Hold Unto Your Dream
Some
of our dreams will remain unfulfilled not because we cannot achieve them but
because we let go of them. To achieve our dream, we must hold unto it, not some
of the time but all the time.
Often,
we allow challenges to make us give up our dreams. When we don’t seem to make
meaningful progress, we get discouraged and abandon our dream. It is important
we remind ourselves constantly that we cannot make our dream come true without
confronting and overcoming myriads of challenges on our way.
It
is our reluctance to confront the challenges on our way that is making us to
abandon our dreams. To achieve our dream, we must make up our mind today that
we will not abandon our dream until we achieve it.
5.
Pursue Your Dream
Dreams
don’t come true by merely holding unto them. We have to get up each day and do
something however little to keep moving towards the realization of our dream.
And
as you apply the lessons contained in this article, it is my hope that you will
soon get from where you are to where you want to be.
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