Feel Like You Are Failing At Life? Is It Possible The Answer To Your Success Is The Law of Attraction? » dream great dreams http://www.therealmikegriffin.com The Law of Attraction - The Science of Getting Rich, Personal Productivity, And Self Development at The Real Mike Griffin Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Notes On As A Man Thinketh Chapter 6: Visions And Ideals – It’s The Law of Attraction Again! http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/1199/notes-on-as-a-man-thinketh-chapter-6-visions-and-ideals/ http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/1199/notes-on-as-a-man-thinketh-chapter-6-visions-and-ideals/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:49:41 +0000 Mike Griffin http://www.therealmikegriffin.com/?p=1199

Dream Great Dreams

Someone rewrote some lines in Edgar Guest’s poem Equipment. Guest says: “So start for the top and say I can.” The rewrite said: “So dream great dreams and say “God can.” I’ve always liked the rewrite better but I don’t know who to attribute it to. I believe that James Allen would also go with the rewrite. Allen’s words in As A Man Thinketh go like this:

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your
Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is
the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The
oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the
highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the
seedlings of realities.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long
remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities. What an awesome quote. What do you need to do to sustain your dreams so that they grow from seedlings to giant trees? The idea is the same as we see expressed by Napoleon Hill and Wallace Wattles – your thoughts are things. Your thoughts grow from seedlings into a great reality. Like the seedling thoughts need nurturing and the need some work.

A seedling needs suckering – the offshoots that just take away nutrition from it and which would stunt it’s growth need to be removed. Did you have a nice dream that has gotten confused and unclear by following too many offshoots and neglecting the real dream? You need to deal with that.

A seedling needs nourishment. You’ve got to feed your dream or it will die. You’ve got to hold it up in the light of your mind so it can get the nourishment from the light. If it’s just a seedling and blocked from light by all the other stuff that is happening in your life soon it will be crushed and lost forever. Hold that vision, see it, experience it, and be thankful for it.

Life

These dreams the seedlings are actually a microcosm of your life. People are born and endowed with promise and hope as all new babies are. Some grow to be the tall trees while others don’t fully meet their potential. The Edgar Guest poem Equipment mentioned at the beginning talks about that. You and your dreams together are these seedlings. Dreams really are all the equipment that even the great ever have, this is the promise and hope that wraps each of us as we are born. Can you get rid of the suckers in your life, can you hold your dreams and your hopes in the light and give them the appreciation and the care that they need to take you into a great future?

Read what Allen said again:

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long
remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

This is what Wattles and Hill are saying. It is yet another statement of the law of attraction. Hold the vision and it will come to pass. Let me say it again in another way:

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and I will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what shall I answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”

—Habakkuk 2:1-3, King James Bible

I have long loved that scripture. Write the vision – make it plain – because it will surely come, it will not tarry. When we were born a vision was written upon our souls but many of us have not nourished the vision and have allowed suckers to take us off into paths that will not take us to the great heights that we are intended to achieve. But as Allen says those circumstances won’t long remain if we but perceive an ideal and strive to reach for it. Again – it is the law of attraction.

“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

Carpe diem – seize the day. This is your day take a moment and reach for that dream and hold it in the light, hold in the “Thinking Substance” as Wattles calls it. See it, nurture it, and soon live it. But it starts with today, it starts with you, that dream and holding it up to the light, holding it in the thinking substance.


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Remember Monday – Remember Your Dreams

I once said to someone whose dreams needed to be lifted, “remember Monday!” Monday was the last sign up day for that semester of college. Every time I saw her, I smiled and said, “remember Monday.” Like an old drag race commercial that said “Sundayyyy,” I said, “Mondayyyy.” She responded and entered classes. A little encouragement, a little care from someone, a little stoking of the fires of hope and a new beginning.

We must all make a beginning sometimes and afterwards we have we need to continue to feed the fire and keep it burning. Sometimes we let our fires die down and need a little stirring or stoking to get them started again. Sometimes, we have to say it to ourselves, “Remember Monday!” People around us come to help us live in reality, often they tell us we can’t. Voices rise up inside us of things that say no, can’t, impossible. If we hear that long enough we no longer need to hear it from them, because we begin to tell ourselves. We begin to push our dreams and desires from our concousness. But, we must always remember Monday. We cannot rely on anyones opinions to form our dreams. We cannot rely on anyone to stoke our dreams and hopes, our fires, our passion but ourselves. The world always seems to try to tear the dreams and hopes down — to put out the fires. We can let that happen and fall into complacency, into a dull dream, or we can always and forever “remember Monday.” Falling into complacency. Being somewhat comfortable just now. It is slow death. Often we avoid doing things because we are concerned that, ” if it fails we will loose everything.” We look so long and hard at the consequence of failure that we do not move at all. We stay in the place we are. We fail to realize that with that attitude over time, “we will loose everything!” As we see our lives draining away day by day, the place we are seeming more and more mundane our fires grow cold; in our hearts we become desperate and look to find a way out but the alternative is worse than what we have.
On Monday, the week is new. Why do people dread the fresh start that comes when Monday breaks again? Monday should always be a new hope and a new beginning. What our response to Monday or anything else in life is, is always up to us. Most people just want to roll over and go back to sleep on Monday morning. Some people so dread Monday that on Monday morning as they face the life they hate they become sick. Monday morning is the peak time for heart attacks. When dreams should be alive and excitement in the air — people faint over things, mostly little things, that seem to have grown so large and so pervasive that all else is blocked from their view. Sometimes things will happen that makes a situation even more hopeless than it was. 
 Life is an adventure. We need always to know that if we face it with courage, wonder, faith, and love, that the hero, us, will win. Instead of choking at life’s free throw line, while at bat, as we go for the gold, or whatever analogy works for you, we need to relax, breathe in fire and confidence. We need to stoke our own fires within.
When we have a dream we must keep it alive! There is a line from an Edgar Guest poem, “Dream great dreams and say, God Can.” You may think that your dreams and God’s are different, but you are wrong.

(Jer 29:11-13 NIV) 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. {12} Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. {13} You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

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