Dream all you want. But put it to action.
Many people die with their dreams still in their heads and hearts. My “someday” never happened, they would tell us.
Why do so many people wait?
What prevents people from acting on their dreams?
Most people cite practical obstacles such as the lack of money or time.
“I am too old now.”
“I am too young, I need experience.”
“I need to save more money.”
“When I retire…”
“When I take a sabbatical.”
“The idea is not good enough.”
But no matter what your reason for inaction, it has its basis in one emotion only – fear.
The fear of the unknown, the fear of failure, the fear of uncertainty. But most of all, the fear that in order for dreams to become a reality, we have to first be willing to kill the dream.
As long as we want the comfort of the dream, its fantasy alive, we will hold on to it and nurture it, play with it in our minds, but never willing to release it into the world, to act on this dream.
Dreams are fragile. It is the nature of your dream to resist the light of day, because it is fragile. It lives a tenuous existence as it is, between the world of fantasy and reality.
But in order to act, you have to first be willing to let your dream go. To see the dream die and be reborn as something tangible, imperfect perhaps, but real.
So harness the fact of your death. The best antidote to inertia is to harness the knowledge of your mortality. Fight the fear that makes you continue living in the safety of shadows, by reminding yourself that you will not live forever.
You do not want to carry your dreams to your grave. Act now. Your someday is today.