Make Your Dream a Reality

Mr. Motivator, how can I make my dream a reality for me?  Anyone can make their dream a reality if that person is serious.

If you are truly serious about making your dream a reality, the first step is to realize that you must develop personal motivation.  In other words, you must have the ability to motivate yourself.

When you possess personal motivation, your dream will transpire into reality -- because it is very difficult to stop someone who's highly motivated and moving forward with such tremendous momentum.

It's like trying to stop a train that's headed down the tracks.  You may ask, what is personal motivation?

Personal motivation begins with developing personal courage, enthusiasm, know-how, confidence, and belief.  The bridge that supports personal motivation is having a positive attitude towards your abilities.

A positive attitude will help you become motivated enough to create, produce, and achieve.  Once your dreams become a reality, you will want to help others become motivated so that they can cause their dreams to become a reality.

Thinking Like a Winner

It's all about thinking positive and expecting to win.  No one ever wins without the sacrifice of taking the necessary steps that will lead to your destination.

If you can see yourself as a winner, you will begin setting goals for yourself and having an action plan.  Success is the progressive realization of a predetermined worthy goal that you set for yourself.  A winner thinks that he can do it even if he or she doesn't feel like it.  Having belief in oneself gives you an attitude that ignites confidence and enthusiasm.  Some may say that he is arrogant or cocky.

Sometimes people mistake cockiness for persistence.  When you know what you're doing and you're good at doing it, you will develop a winning mentality.  Thinking like a winner is being able to focus and to see yourself with a favorable outcome.

The Road is Never Long Between Friends

Sometimes in life, you find a special friend;

Someone who changes your life

just by being part of it.

Someone who makes you laugh

until you can't stop;

Someone who makes you believe

that there really is good in the world.

Someone who convinces you

that there really is an unlocked door

just waiting for you to open it.

This is Forever Friendship.

Author Unknown

Are You A Reason, A Season, Or A Lifetime?

I had a conversation with a friend and was asked what I thought it meant to be a friend, my column last week, gave some insight into what I thought a friend was.  About the same time, I thought about individuals that have been in my life one time or another.  Many are now deceased, some moved away and we stopped communicating, and others, we just drifted apart.  Each played an important part in my life.  A "Reason" or a "Season" individual was hard to let go of, at times, but let go, I finally did.  Think about individuals that have come into your life and the part that they were there for you.  This is something to think about, this I believe! 

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.  When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.

When someone is in your life for a REASON--It is usually to meet a need you have expressed.  They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually.  They seem like a godsend, and they are!  They are there for the reason you need them to be.  Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, the relationship comes to an end.

At times they walk away.  Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.  Sometimes they die.  What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.  Your need has been answered, now it is time to move on.

When people come into your life for a SEASON it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn.  They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh.  They may teach you something you have never done.  They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.  Believe it!  It is real!  But, only for a season!

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.  Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.  It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank  God for each person being a part of your life.  --Author Unknown