In our last +1, we spent time with Langston Hughes and James Allen.
As you may recall, Hughes told us…
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
While James Allen told us: “Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.”
As I captured those inspiring words, I thought of another poetically wise passage—this one from Henry David Thoreau.
He told us: “I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
btw…
Thoreau ALSO told us: “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
In other words.
WOOP those goals.
Rub them up against reality.
Know the price you’ll have to pay.
And go pay it.
TODAY.
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