Follow Your Heart's
Desire
by Paula Bonnell
Everyone has dreams. You may dismiss
them, wish them into your life or escape into them, but there is always one
inside you. What do you do with your dream? Have you ever tried to actively
pursue it? Have you ever attempted to make your dream your life's reality? This
is life's biggest challenge and one of the greatest opportunities for you to
grow as a person.
If you're not following your dream
right now, what's stopping you? Is it the responsibilities you have that hold
you back from the pursuit of a dream that seems self-indulgent? Is it the risk
of discovering that you can't have the dream you've spent years nurturing in
your heart? Could it be the fear that once you capture your dream, there will be
nothing left inside you to spur you on? Or is it, perhaps, the fear of
discovering that the dream wasn't really what you thought it would be when you
achieve it?
Sometimes it's the path you
walk
to follow your dream that's important,
not actually realizing the
dream.
All of these things are valid concerns.
Risk, disappointment, unfulfilled expectations, irresponsibility, and fear are
all powerful deterrents. And, yet, if you do begin to follow your dream, what
will happen? What's your reward for overcoming all the conflict these deterrents
will greet you with? You will discover who you are.
Don't Give Up!
As you meet resistance on the path to
your dream, you'll discover strength, beauty, depth, and talent you never knew
were within you. And once you set out on this path who knows what opportunities
you'll encounter along the way? Each step towards your dream is a chance for you
to discover other dreams, skills, friendships, interests and passions. With each
step taken, comes hundreds of new paths to walk — if you wish to pursue other
dreams.
Sometimes it's the path you walk to
follow your dream that's important, not actually realizing the dream. With every
day and every new experience, you change. And, as you continue to walk the path
to your dream, the dream may change. This is not a lack of focus or commitment.
Changing the nature or substance of your desires is called growth. How can
anything that reveals more of who you are to yourself be destructive or
irresponsible or selfish?
Of course, as you walk the path you've
chosen, there is also the possibility that you may lose the dream for a while.
You may travel quite a distance and suddenly decide that the dream isn't
attainable. You may not be able to capture the dream as you have envisioned it.
But dreams are never gone forever. Have faith in yourself. Stop for a time, look
around you and then look within. What have you learned in pursuing this dream?
Is there anything in the experiences, feelings and knowledge you've acquired
that point you toward another dream? Can you modify the dream you have? With an
open mind and a few questions, you will find your dream again or discover a new
one. Keep searching.
It is no failure to have walked a path
halfway instead of to the end. All the discoveries you've made stay with you
regardless of what path you choose. You never lose these.
Every Step Is Valid
So, no single day, hour or minute when
you seek your dream, any dream, is ever wasted. When you seek a dream, you seek
yourself. Finding out who you are and sharing yourself with people is life. And
what better way to discover yourself and share what you've learned with those
around you than following your heart's desires?
Eventually, there are only two courses
you can travel. You can bury your dreams and live a contented life allowing
experiences, opportunities and chances for happiness and growth to come to you
as they may. Or, you can decide to fulfill your life's potential and take that
first step on the path to your dream.
Chance may not reveal you to yourself.
Seek out who you are while there is still time. Take that first step and follow
your dream.
Recommended book:
The One Minute Coach: Change Your Life One Minute at a Time
by Masha Malka.
To make a real difference in your life requires not just an
understanding of what would make it different but also consistent
focused action, which this book helps you achieve.
Info/Order this book.
 About
The Author
Paula Bonnell is an aspiring author who left the corporate world to
discover her spirituality. She founded Aslite Enterprise in 2002 for the express purpose of
helping business owners and sales professionals gain access to the
power of gratitude through acknowledgment. Aslite produces a series of
motivational cards to inspire customers, clients, patients and referral
sources as well as developing acknowledgment systems to encourage
customer retention and increased referrals.
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