How Far Can Your Dreams Take You?

 ........... as far as the power of your imagination and motivation

Denis Waitley

Imagination and motivation are powerful things, and with them on your side, you have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Need proof? Take the story of how the first bridge over the Niagara River near Niagara Falls was built in 1847….

You see, to build a bridge over the giant gorge, the builders first had to get a line over the canyon, from one side to the other—from the United States to Canada with roaring rapids underneath. Except the engineers couldn’t cross the river in a boat because it would go over the falls, the airplane hadn’t been invented yet, and the distance was way beyond bow-and-arrow range.

The designing engineer, Charles Ellet, pondered the dilemma until he came up with a revolutionary idea: to sponsor a kite flying contest. A $5 prize (a small lottery back then!) would go to the person who could fly a kite across the gorge and let it go low enough to the ground for someone on the other side to grab the string. It was successful—a young American boy won the contest on his second attempt.

The kite string, fastened to a tree, was used to pull a cord across, then a line, then a rope. Next came an iron-wire cable and then steel cables, until a structure strong enough to build a suspension bridge was in place. The bridge opened on August 1, 1848. And it all began with an idea and one thin kite string.

That string is like a single thought. The more vivid and clear the thought, and the more you come back to it, the stronger it becomes—like the string to the rope to the cable. Each time you rethink it, dwell on it or layer it with other thoughts, you are strengthening the structure on which to build your idea, like building a bridge over Niagara Falls.

But unlike a kite, there is no string attached to how high and how far your goals may take you. They are limited only by the power of your imagination and the strength of your desire.

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How to Avoid Laziness and Get Something Done - 5 Tips For Motivation

Getting started then done is only part of the battle. What you do after you get started and before you get done is the main part of the battle. The battle is won through the productive use of imagination to pump yourself up first, without thinking of being what you want to be, you do not have a conception of what you genuinely want to achieve. in fact, the productive use of creative imagination to excite yourself is a powerful tool at the start, during what you are doing and fulfilling yourself at the end of what is done. Without imagination, everything is just "flat doing", like a machine. Reality works on what intelligently innovative action, not by flat doing. Say there was flat doing in lighting, we would still be using candles as a main source of light instead of light bulbs today.

Once you start, you must persist. Without persistence, nothing is achieved, sure you can imagine going to the moon. But, you will not even see an exhibit or read a detailed book without some persistence. Also, genuine unstoppable persistence is the key to winning over all laziness.

Another concept to get something done and make a powerful life is disciplined assertiveness, meaning you must be forceful, yet tactful, thoughtful and disciplined about it.

Sure, the second to last concept is this: You must not let too many emergencies happen, always be prepared to the best possible extent. Without preparation and rightly used experience, either a "lucky break" happens or loss happens the first time out of the gate. You must be properly prepared to take proper action like a blacksmith with a calloused hand and powerfully prepared arm to shape metal with a hammer!

The final concept combines all the concepts into a harmonious whole. Realistically, preparation and opportunity are perfect mates that go together without qualms or argument. But, productive vigilance is the law above opportunity and preparation that unifies everything for the person who "gets the best opportunities" and is "consistently lucky".

Indeed, the most fortunate person is not really lucky, the most fortunate is the most vigilant for the best opportunities. Every valid philosophy begins with being, goes on with doing and ends with having? Well, we must first be the fortune, do the deed that makes the fortune and then have the fortune. The process is always the same, but the goals differ.

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