Dreams Can Come True

 

“Don’t measure your dream by sense or logic. If your dream is making sense, it’s not really a dream.” ~ Hiral Nagda

One of the six activities of the Miracle Morning SAVERS is Visualization. I have a playlist of guided visualization exercises that I cycle through during my morning ritual. Earlier this week, I found myself asking if I truly believed in what I was visualizing and the possibility of it coming true.

The answer showed up in a Sister Circle Podcast episode as if on cue. Chrystal Evans Hirst was talking about how to achieve the dreams you can’t afford.

All around the world, the economy is in a recession. Here in Kenya, we are experiencing a prolonged drought season and economic issues. As if that was not enough, our political environment is muddy at best. The situation seems bleak and it is easy to fall into a pit of despondency and begin to imagine that things will never be right again. Actually, many have fallen into that pit and ended up committing suicide, but if you’re reading this, you’re still here and there’s hope.

So what do you do when you can’t afford even the basics and there’s no clear plan for ever affording those things you once dreamt about? What do you do when all you can wish is for the tunnel to end, whether or not there’s a light at the end of it?

First, check your foundational beliefs. Where is your faith anchored? Mine is based on a scripture in Habakkuk 3:17-18 which says, “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”

When I take off the rose-colored glasses of my skewed view of the past, there have been seasons in the past when things were worse off than they are now or just as bad. However, when the seasons ran full circle, things got better and life was sitting on the right side again. This too shall pass.

Secondly, dust off your dreams and revive those you had killed. A lot of people spend time worrying and creating scenarios in their heads about how bad things could get. The result is good energy wasted, unnecessary ulcers created and the net effect is a loss. I’m suggesting a better way to spend that energy.

Take a piece of paper and a pen. Dream in writing, putting down all the things you wish you could do but can’t do now. Go into as much detail as possible and use all your research skills to flesh out the dream until you have a complete version in technicolor. Spare no imagination in your quest to create the perfect dream.

Fold your dream and put it away somewhere you can check it whenever you can indulge in dreams. Get back to whatever grind you’re involved in and give it your all.

Lastly, begin to save for your dream, no matter how little you can afford now. Do you need to save ideas for that possible business you will one day own? Are there contacts that might be imported on that future date? Save them. Will your dream cost money you don’t have now? A little amount saved in a Money Market account can be compounding while you slowly add to it. You will be surprised how much your money can grow given time and consistency. The key idea here is to prepare yourself to actualize that dream one day, to prepare to be the person deserving of that dream coming true, and to prepare to celebrate a miracle when it happens.

When the tide turns, be ready to ride the new wave, knowing that high tides always give way to low tides, and on and on it has always been since the history of mankind.

“The possibility of the dream gives strength.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita