Treasure Your Dreams

I once heard a quote that said, “Passion is knowing exactly what you want, and not stopping until you get it.”

That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? You can’t be passionate about something, and still be ready and willing to give up the pursuit of achieving it. If you can willingly give up on something, then it’s not your passion — plain and simple.

Your passion is something that, even if for a time it must be put on hold, remains as much as part of you as it was the day you discovered it.

Your passion can be found in the answer to the questions, “What does your perfect day look like?”, and “Imagine the most wonderful place on earth, what are you doing there?”

I believe everyone has a passion — I believe your passion is a desire you born with, a gift from God that is meant to fulfill your true purpose in life; the reason He put you here in the first place.

Some of you may be reading this saying, “No, my passion has nothing to do with God.” — but I have to disagree. God uses people every day in millions of ways; He put that desire (that passion) in your heart for a reason, even if you aren’t sure what that reason is yet.

Your passion is something that makes your heart smile when you think about it; something that makes your heart hurt when you imagine never being able to do it again.

So my question to you is; what’s YOUR passion? What makes you tick, what makes you get out of bed in the morning, what makes you reach for your dreams?

The quote I leave you with is this,

“Above all be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”

What defines an obsession? According the the dictionary, the word “obsession” is defined as “the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc”.

What about passion? The word “passion”, according to the dictionary, is defined as “any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate”.

I read a quote once that stated “Passion is knowing what you want, and never stopping until you get it.”

I love that quote — I find it very inspiring.

After some more digging, I found another definition in the dictionary for the word “passion” — this might be my favorite:

“The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity”

So what if you were to put the two words together — to combine them in describing a single act, whim, dream, desire, or goal that you have for yourself. What if you were to take a goal, and then turn the act of reaching that goal into a passionate obsession.

Wow. Imagine the results — imagine that feeling. Allowing the passion you held for that goal to overcome your daily life and activities and to actually influence your state of mind. Then — allowing that influence to become your most dominant thought, your obsession.

You may remember from a previous post that your attititude can be described as what you think about all day long — typically this is a multitude of things; but what if you were to allow your obsession with a thing that has become your passion to invade your dominant thoughts throughout the day — this new state of mind would become a part of your attitude, a part of yourself.

I want to transform my dreams into passionate obsessions. I want the thoughts that surround those dreams and the actions necessary to reach them to become so strong that they physically influence my state of mind and take hold of my dominant thoughts on a daily basis.

I want to become so passionate about my dreams, that I “won’t stop until I [reach them]“ –

What about you?

Each of us has a dream — many of us have several. Sadly, so many people walk through life day by day only to find themselves at the end and to realize they never got what they truly wanted out of life.

What is it that YOU truly want?

Take that dream, and write it on paper — put a deadline on it. Congratulations, you have just turned your dream into a goal.

Now take that goal and allow it to consume you. Draw a picture of it and look at it daily — allow the desire to reach that goal to become so strong in you that it becomes a passion — that it takes over and influences your mind in a way you have never been influenced before.

Become “uncontrolably excited” about your goal — and think on it, daily. Allow that passion to comsume you until you find that it has become an obsession. Allow that obsession to become so strong that you think on it “all day long” — become the master of your own dominant thoughts.

Then, in the state of your new passionate obsession, take the steps necessary to reach your goal — do not be deterred by set-backs or slow-moving… do not accept failure as an option.

Do this, then look up in 5 years, and marvel at what your life looks like.