Dreams are easy!
Wouldn’t it be great if we could just go to sleep and everything we dreamed just came to pass effortlessly? And that is exactly what so many people do. They have a dream, something is birthed in the imagination and it’s already reality to them. But life doesn’t work that way.
The greatest gift human beings have is imagination. It’s here that God puts an idea in our souls, and we can co-create with him. But that is exactly it, you have to put in the effort, the discipline and developing the strategy. And it’s the 1% that do that. You can do it to, if you’re willing to put in the effort and pay the price for it.
The creation process is where you take the reality in your imagination and put it to practice here in daily life. How do you do that? It requires the skill of strategy. It’s won or lost wars, ruined or elevated empires, it’s made the wealthiest people even more and it’s kept the dreamer in poverty. Strategy is crucial.
I hear so much talk of ‘perseverance’ and ‘determination’ but I’ve watched people with no clear vision or strategy be like a robotic toy just banging over and over again into a wall and not stopping for a moment to think that maybe they needed to shift directions.
I like to read and study the greatest generals in war. It’s amazing how much you can learn in life from this simple step. It is said that McCarthur stated in WW2 that you are a fool to go into a battle without a strategy. But you are equally a fool to stick to that strategy in the middle of the battle. This is a crucial point and pursuing a dream in your imagination. You might start implementing one way and the doors are shut, and you might need to shift directions.
A few years ago I had a friend share a dream they had to build something that was a brilliant idea. They started to take action and had a strategy, but bad partners and other obstacles left them sleeping in their car destitute. They walked away from the dream. Today I read in the news that someone else is doing their dream. My friend was crushed. Listen, if you don’t do it someone else will. Just because your at a financial rock bottom or you’ve hit one barrier after another don’t keep doing the same thing and don’t give up. Both are equally wrong. Adjust your