Unleash................................

While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way.  Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily working at building and enjoying a fortune.  Everything just seems to work out for them.  And here sits the much larger group, wondering how life can be so unfair, so complicated and unjust.  What's the major difference between the little group with so much and the bigger group with so little?
     Despite all the factors that affect our lives - like the kind of parents we have, the schools we attend, the part of the country we grew up in - none has as much potential power for affecting our futures as our ability to dream.
     Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead.  Dreams can drive you.  Dreams can make you skip over obstacles.  When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.  To unleash this power, though, your dreams must be well-defined.  A fuzzy future has little pulling power.  Well-defined dreams are not fuzzy.  Wishes are fuzzy.  To really achieve your dreams, to really have your future plans full you forward, your dreams must be vivid.....You've got to see the finish line while you're running the race.  You've got to hear the cheers when you're in the middle of a monster project.  And you've got to be willing to put yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable.  Because that's how you realize your dreams.
-Jim Rohn, as excerpted from Leading An Inspired Life

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