Grow Your Dreams

By Mary Morrissey

Your mind may play host to a myriad of wishes, but you need to distinguish your deepest desire from whims and passing fancies.  You have been endowed with the power to choose the dream closest to your heart.  You can embark on a path that will bring that dream to fruition.

1. Set your intention.  What is the life you want to be living?  Your focused intention will move through the energy field of all possibilities and draw to it the substance that will produce the crop of your life.  Thoughts held in mind reproduce after their kind.  Practice telling yourself, “Where I place my attention, I place my intention.”  Buy a dream journal and commit to paper the deepest longings of your heart.

2. Test your dream with five essential questions:  Do you feel passion for your dream?  Does the dream align with your core values?  Do you need God for your dream because the dream is bigger than something you can accomplish on your own?  Will the dream bring good to you by moving you closer to your true self?  Will your dream bring good to others?

3. Commit to your dream mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  We find ourselves breaking commitments all the time, disappointing others as well as ourselves.  For your dream to come true, you’ve got to stick with it, pledging yourself to a particular course of action.  As you commit, you willingly take steps toward your dream, proceeding even as doubts arise, even when you do not have all the answers.