I am wishing for anyone reading this a happy Monday. That may be funny because I try to write something each Monday but persons read what I write throughout the week. I appreciate you taking the time to read.
Passion is the energy and excitement with which a dream is pursued. Pursuing a dream may not be an easy ask especially when it is something that exists in the mind and the task is to make real what at first was an idea or concept. This is especially so if the dream is easily achieved because that is an indication that the dream was not big enough and something bigger and more grand must be pursued.
Passion becomes the driving force that enables the taking on of the impossible, persisting in the face of failures and believing in spite of reality saying otherwise. Passion is the fuel that make dreams into reality because there may be a long time and distance between what began as a thought and putting together something tangible. Passion however provide the focus not to be distracted by the spin off ideas because the dream taking shape also mean the spawning of other ideas and concepts.
Where some need alcohol and drugs to get high in order to face life passion take a man to a high that exceed a point where these can go without any ill effects. Disappointment is ever present but each failure gives renewed energy because he understand that failures only occur when there is success to be achieved.
A car's engine need gas for it to function, a man's body need food to burn to provide energy and dreams need passion to move them from being just concepts in the mind to man's exclamation "He must have been crazy to have imagined it in the first place."
That is the power and result of passion.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
The power of a dream
Wishing you a happy Monday.
Today I would like for us to take a look at two definitions of a dream..
1. A series of images, ideas, emotions and sensation occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep
2. A wild fancy or hope
(www.thefreedictionary.com)
Science is still baffled by the phenomenon of dreaming and cannot give an exact explanation for its occurrence. Many books have been written on the explanation and meaning of dreams and dreams have been the source of some persons fortunes. The Bible site dreams as one of the means through which God speaks to man. Today dreams continue to be the source of premonition, hope and inspiration.
Dreams that occur during sleep are involuntary but there is the dream that comes about as the result of the deliberate thinking upon ideas. As ideas are thought about images begin to take shape. These are the dreams that are described as wild fancy. The reality is that in our lives wild fancies comes true every day. This is why it becomes necessary to make our wild fancies huge and seemingly out of this world. If the mind has the power to conceive the fancy then there is the way to make the dream a reality.
The power in our wild fancies lies in their magnetism because as soon as the dream has taken shape then they begin to attract possibilities. Possibility spawns other possibilities. The first thing necessary is to have the dream and then the possible way of moving what is an image residing in the mind to something tangible that others can see will begin.
Today I would like for us to take a look at two definitions of a dream..
1. A series of images, ideas, emotions and sensation occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep
2. A wild fancy or hope
(www.thefreedictionary.com)
Science is still baffled by the phenomenon of dreaming and cannot give an exact explanation for its occurrence. Many books have been written on the explanation and meaning of dreams and dreams have been the source of some persons fortunes. The Bible site dreams as one of the means through which God speaks to man. Today dreams continue to be the source of premonition, hope and inspiration.
Dreams that occur during sleep are involuntary but there is the dream that comes about as the result of the deliberate thinking upon ideas. As ideas are thought about images begin to take shape. These are the dreams that are described as wild fancy. The reality is that in our lives wild fancies comes true every day. This is why it becomes necessary to make our wild fancies huge and seemingly out of this world. If the mind has the power to conceive the fancy then there is the way to make the dream a reality.
The power in our wild fancies lies in their magnetism because as soon as the dream has taken shape then they begin to attract possibilities. Possibility spawns other possibilities. The first thing necessary is to have the dream and then the possible way of moving what is an image residing in the mind to something tangible that others can see will begin.
Monday, June 16, 2014
Happy Monday: The power of an idea
Happy Monday: The power of an idea: Wishing you a happy Monday. An idea is "Something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as...
The power of an idea
Wishing you a happy Monday.
An idea is "Something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity," (source: Free online dictionary).
we are creatures of thought and we assess our thoughts before we act. It is during the process of assessing our thoughts that ideas occur. It is important that we differentiate between assessing our thoughts and acting on our instincts. We sometimes act from instinct which is a given response to a stimuli. Animals act from instinct and can always be expected to behave the exact same way to a given stimuli. Man because he is given to thought can formulate how he will respond.
Ideas does not have material on which they are built but it is impossible for a man to conceive an idea which he is incapable of bringing into being. The idea is that what a man's mind can conceive he can also achieve. It becomes a matter of willingness to persist.
I grew up in Jamaica where the game most loved was cricket. A test match lasted five or six days and in the end quite often there were no results because the match ended in a draw. Cricket to me is a game about patience ,skill and endurance. Cricket to me make an interesting comparison with American sports which lasts most times at most two hours and demand that in the end there must be a result.
Pursuing ideas to me is similar to a game of test cricket. It call for patience, endurance and failure and at the same time it demands overcoming the best that the opposing side has. Ideas cannot be viewed as demanding immediate results but once you begin to pursue an idea it is going to spawn other ideas. You will then have to decide whether you focus on the one or incorporate the other ideas as you move a thought or concept from being mental to something tangible.
An idea is "Something, such as a thought or conception, that potentially or actually exists in the mind as a product of mental activity," (source: Free online dictionary).
we are creatures of thought and we assess our thoughts before we act. It is during the process of assessing our thoughts that ideas occur. It is important that we differentiate between assessing our thoughts and acting on our instincts. We sometimes act from instinct which is a given response to a stimuli. Animals act from instinct and can always be expected to behave the exact same way to a given stimuli. Man because he is given to thought can formulate how he will respond.
Ideas does not have material on which they are built but it is impossible for a man to conceive an idea which he is incapable of bringing into being. The idea is that what a man's mind can conceive he can also achieve. It becomes a matter of willingness to persist.
I grew up in Jamaica where the game most loved was cricket. A test match lasted five or six days and in the end quite often there were no results because the match ended in a draw. Cricket to me is a game about patience ,skill and endurance. Cricket to me make an interesting comparison with American sports which lasts most times at most two hours and demand that in the end there must be a result.
Pursuing ideas to me is similar to a game of test cricket. It call for patience, endurance and failure and at the same time it demands overcoming the best that the opposing side has. Ideas cannot be viewed as demanding immediate results but once you begin to pursue an idea it is going to spawn other ideas. You will then have to decide whether you focus on the one or incorporate the other ideas as you move a thought or concept from being mental to something tangible.
Monday, June 2, 2014
The power of a thought
Wishing you a happy
Monday
This week it is estimated there will be in excess of 20,000 thought going through my mind and going through your mind also. Our thoughts are the source of our ideas. This week I promise to meditate on at least two of those thoughts and acts on the ideas that result from meditating on my thoughts. My challenge for you is this, will you promise yourself to do the same with at least two of your thoughts this week?Last week it was fascinating to see the thing that I desired to happen just falling into place. I began the week by thinking of the things that I would like to get done during the course of the week and how to get those things done. The things got done but they certainly did not require the power of my mind or my input. That does not say I did not get anything done because I did quite a bit which was laying the foundations for future benefits.
The week before you and I is a week with fascinating possibilities. There will also be the uncontrollable circumstance but these help to make life all the more interesting. My other challenge always remain in place and it is this, ensure that at the end of the week there is something to show that you accomplished during the course of the week.
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