Dreams That Come True

Ideas of possibility backed by faith and action

Teiichi Igarashi climbed Mt. Fuji when he was 99 years old. Los Angeles Times archive from July 21, 1986

True story: I sometimes tell myself I am too old. People do major things at advanced ages. My favorite example may be the Japanese man pictured here. Teiichi Igarashi climbed Mout Fuji at age 99.

I’m never too old to inspire, to create, to make a change in my own heart and influence others. What is my dream?

The dream you keep alive is the one that comes true

As the song lyrics to “Happy Talk” from Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific say

Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk,
Talk about things you’d like to do.
You got to have a dream,
If you don’t have a dream,
How are you gonna have a dream come true?

If you are more positive in your waking hours, won’t you accomplish more? Remind yourself of your strengths and talents. Examine old ideas that say you lack certain abilities. Are they your ideas or did someone tell you that? Are they true? Create an affirmation to counteract the ones that are not. Collect positive statements and post them where you will see them often.

A dream and your working style

In my article about the most important thing I learned on February 18, I told about four working styles. My terms for them are:

• The Creative is a font of ideas.  They are the dreamers who live in the future.

• The Socializer gets everything done through social interaction. These outgoing people live in the present.

• The Analyst is detail-oriented and loves to organize everything.  They prefer quiet to do what they love best.  They live in the past where the facts can be studied.

• The Manager gets things done or leads others to complete tasks. Managers live in a carefully defined part of the present, up until the task is done.

How do these relate to dreams and dreams coming true?