GENERAL OF YOUR WILDEST DREAMS …Introspection Time with JBM

A workmate walked into my office this day and simply said, we often have ideas that drop in our minds but we allow ourselves to listen to many negative voices hence a failure to launch.

I remained pondering on those sentiments and realized how true this is. That when you try to take a leap on some of the ideas you develop without listening to external voices or forces, you would attest that those are the dreams standing to date.

I believe therefore that you are the general of your wildest dreams and you can determine the tide.
Do you often mesmerize by certain dreams in your life and keep wondering whether they will ever come to pass? You hold this deep inner passion and desire to become someone or influence your circles and the world at large in a particular area-yet seems so far off.

I have a dream to influence humankind positively, a dream to help give a word in season to the weary or discouraged, it’s a dream to unlock the muscle of resilience in me and others around me.

Whether I am already living that dream, I do not feel that am there yet. What is funny about life is that whatever you imagine can actually be achieved. You can accomplish your dream because you are the general of your wildest dreams.

Sometimes inspiration for the whole process in motion toward your dreams may begin small and unlikely. But with persistence, consistency, and discipline you must begin to record small wins. It is these small wins that accumulate to be that dream of your life!

Reading and mastering other influential people known around the world reminds me that most of them actually began their journey with baby steps. What seemed to propel them forward is the power of the passion they carried inside beyond the understanding of the world. I am informed that challenges and moments of discouragement saturated their atmosphere like road signage that led them to their destination.

You are the general of your wildest dreams entails that there is no need to fear to dream. This is because out of your wildest dreams lie the possibility of actual fulfillment and actualization much to your amazement!

It is important to be reminded that like the expressions of Loretta Milan, your dreams are not a faraway destination. Through the thoughts and imaginations that often swirl up in your mind, give yourself permission to be surprised. The need to identify that which gives you energy, therefore, remains key.

Remember dreams of who you want to be or accomplish can be said to be that energy that keeps you alive in your journey of life. That the driving force behind every successful person is their dream, which is the burning desire igniting a fire in them.

It is one’s dream that explains the reason for their existence and who they are meant to be and the influence one carry. That a true dream deep sited in you should not make you tire, nor make you give up no matter how long it takes.

You are indeed a general of your wildest dreams and you can turn them into reality because Dreams do come true if you believe. Your thoughts form your realities and experiences.

QUOTE:
“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.”
– Tom Bradley

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).

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Author: Joan Beulah Mute (JBM) Lecturer in Research Methods, Sociology and Law and Ethics in Public Health at the University of Lusaka
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