Start Breaking Your Dreams

Everybody has dreams. Maybe you dream of starting a business or writing a book or traveling the world. If your present situation is unpleasant, dreams offer a pleasant escape.

It’s tempting, though, to keep your dreams on a high altar. You dust them off in the morning, make offerings and pray to them. Then you cover them up and go about your life.

Actually pursuing your dreams could be disastrous. You might realize that you actually have no interest in business. You might find that you can’t stand to write a sentence, let alone a whole book. Your first trip to another country may reveal that foreign cuisine makes you sick to your stomach.

So much for those dreams.

We love to make excuses for avoiding what we think is important. Not enough time. Not enough money. Too many health problems. But waiting to explore your dreams is foolish. They could have all come true by now. Or you might have realized that you wanted something that you hadn’t even thought of yet.

Take your dreams off the sacred altar. Throw them around. See if they break.