WORK ON YOUR DREAM

Dreams are in the mental state; a state where only the dreamer can see and experience the dream. However, to transfer the dream from the mental to the physical requires work. In his fascinating book THE OUTLIERS, author and speaker, Malcolm Gladwell argued that for any person, be you an athlete, swimmer, banker, writer, speaker, etc. to achieve world class success, the person must spend 10,000 hours honing their skills and mastering their craft.
Victoria Pendleton won gold in the Women’s Sprint Cycling event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics after training for four hours a day, six days a week. Rebecca Adlington, the 19-year-old swimmer who won two gold medals at the same tournament had put in an estimated 8,840 hours of training since the age of 12.
Working out your dream involves a lot of dedication and sacrifices. A lot of people want a successful outcome but they seldom want to pay the price required for success. If the price wasn’t there, then everybody would be living the life of their dreams. But if your dream is dear to you, if your dream has sunk deep into your soul, you will pay whatever price as long as it is ethical to make it materialize.
Working out your dream will require a huge dose of focus and discipline. The world is replete with things that want to distract your attention, and I must add that some of them are not negative, but they can’t take you where you intend to go. When you’re working out your dream, develop the ability to say ‘NO’ to some of your friends and family members, say no to some parties and weddings, pour your whole soul into working out your dream and build the momentum necessary to materialize your dream. Then when you’re done, you can socialize all you want.
If you don’t achieve greatness with your life, the very same people who wanted to invite you for parties and weddings will tell their children not to be like you, so that instead of your life to be an example of possibilities, it becomes a warning sign.
So work out your dream now because there are two pains in life: one is the pain of regret and the other, the pain of discipline. The pain of discipline weighs ounces, while the pain of regret weighs tons.
Pay the price of discipline now. Do whatever you have to do to nurture your dream so that you will not look back at life with a look of regret and a list of ‘if I had known I would have’...