“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
– Mark Twain
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Actualize Your Primary Goal
The word ‘actualize’ means to make actual, to make real. And to see something actualized requires action. As much as we’d like our dreams to be realized through virtually no effort at all on our part, that’s not the way it works. (And we wouldn’t appreciate it as much if we did nothing to achieve [...]
Look Out, Baby, I’m Your Love Man
Les Brown and his twin brother were adopted by Mamie Brown, a kitchen worker and maid, shortly after their birth in a poverty-stricken Miami neighborhood. Because of his hyperactivity and nonstop jabber, Les was placed in special education classes for the learning disabled in grade school and throughout high school. Upon graduation, he became a [...]
Focusing and Acting on Your Dream
Whatever dream you decide to go after, whether it is a family, or a career goal, you must consciously decide that it is your life’s mission. Benjamin Disraeli said, “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” You must go at it obsessively and set high standards for yourself along the way. There is no [...]
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“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”
- Denis Waitley
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“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
- Napoleon Hill
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“Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’”
- George Bernard Shaw
Your Dream Begins Today
Les Brown What will your life be like when you’ve achieved your most deeply held dreams? Let’s take a look at how you can start living your dreams this very day. Do you have a dream, a vision of the life you wish to live? How specific is that dream? How clear is that vision? [...]
