Dream Pursuit

Would you like to find out what those-in-the-know have to say about dream pursuit? The information in the article below comes straight from well-informed experts with special knowledge about dream pursuit.


You must grow into your dream. Believe it or not, just because you have the dream and are busily pursuing it, doesn’t mean you’re capable of living it yet. That only happens when you’ve become comfy enough with your personal power to fully inhabit your dream, and do what it requires. The sometimes slow process of fulfilling your dream actually trains you to do hard things, like handle rejection, take risks, become more intimate with others, and use your full creative powers. Meanwhile, the Universe will kindly protect you from receiving all that good stuff until you are ready.

Stop being patient and have fun, instead. This is the only real reason there is to pursue your dream. Because the work feels guided, somehow, and personally validating; because it feels as if this is what you were born to do. And so, such work becomes one of the most fun and compelling things in your life. Concentrate on doing what your gut tells you to do, and dig into the process with relish. That takes your mind off the calendar, and then your
work no longer feels so pressured.

Drop your expectations. Life is only really fulfilling when we let it surprise us. And dreams can do so wonderfully well. Yet, in order to be surprised, you have to let go of the clenched urge to know just how things are going to turn out. You have to give up control; you cannot, nor will you ever, be able to predict results. Heavy expectations usually leave you disappointed, not to
mention creatively constipated.

Keep the faith … and stay open. And yet … sometimes bad results happen. Still, those can take you in unexpected directions that yield even greater rewards. Remember the story of Michelangelo’s first job as an architect, on the façade of San Lorenzo (he got fired!) This brief setback actually led him to an entirely new career designing St. Peter’s in Rome, and the Medici chapel, two of the greatest artistic achievements of that period.

Don’t treat your emotions as facts. On a cold day in February five years ago, I lay on my bed, sobbing, convinced I would never publish my self-help book, reach my readers, or find my way out of an ill-suited temp job that I hated. I soggily asked my husband if I should just chuck it all, and go back to work doing this very thing I hated fulltime. Fortunately for me, he told me to stop being hysterical and keep plugging away on my dream. Five years later, I really am living my dream full time, simply because I didn’t treat my momentary upset as factual proof that my dream was kaput. Remember – emotions are emotions; only facts are facts.

Don’t compare your progress with anyone else’s. Your dream is not a test of your self-worth. Instead, it is the playground of your soul, as well as your spiritual mission in life. So treat it as such, and stop playing the big shame tape every time someone else you know accomplishes more than you do. In fact, another person’s achievements have nothing to do with your path, your dream, and your karmic lessons in life. Assuming that they mean anything is simply a trick of your mind. So stop comparing, and get back to work.

Remember how little you know. I contend that our dreams are here for us to seize in small, digestible chunks. If we could really see the larger picture, and know where we’d be in five, ten or twenty years, we’d become overwhelmed instantly. So take what information you do get, and humbly stay your course. Just because it seems like nothing’s ever going to happen DOES NOT MEAN that nothing ever will. It just means that today, that’s how things look.
In other words, remember … you haven’t got a clue how this dream thing will turn out, and you can take all kinds of comfort in that, especially if you’re busy having fun!