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How To Nurture Your Goals And Dreams
Wendy Betterini
One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves is
make a conscious effort to nurture our goals and dreams. After
all, isn't nurturing care what makes everything grow? Think
of the nurturing energy you provide to your children, your
pets, your spouse, and even your own personal development.
Without nurturing care, living things will die.
Our dreams and goals are certainly living things, breathed
into being by our own thoughts. It is vital to nurture them
and encourage them to grow and thrive, or else they will surely
perish. Though this may sound like common sense advice, it's
amazing how many of us don't do this.
Following are the six ways to keep your dreams alive, and
even better - make them thrive!
Provide a Fertile Foundation - If you begin planting your
dreams in a heart and mind that is polluted with negativity
or scattered with doubts, they will not be able to thrive
properly. Before beginning the planting process, sweep away
all unnecessary debris that could stunt the growth of your
dreams. If it's too late and you've already planted the ideas,
you can simply uproot them momentarily and begin again with
fresh soil.
Feed Them - The most important sustenance you can feed to
your dreams is love. Treat your dreams like your most precious
creations. Hold them close to your heart and continue to breathe
loving life into them. Hold them in a place of prominence
in your mind and continue to believe in them. Dreams and goals
must be fed with positive thoughts at least daily, preferably
several times a day. Give them nourishing snacks of happy
encouragement and watch them grow fat and happy.
Water Them - Water is the bearer of emotion and feeling. Lend
as much emotional feeling to your dreams as you can, because
emotion is what gives your dreams energy and animation. Visualize
the outcome of your dreams and goals, and infuse this vision
with emotion. Feel the joy and satisfaction of realizing your
dreams. Embrace them and shed happy tears for their beauty.
Feel your heart lift with awe and thanksgiving, and allow
those feelings to infuse your dreams with the power to become
real.
Give Them Light - Let the light shine upon your dreams, in
the form of inspiration and optimism. Jealously guard your
dreams from negativity like a mother bear guards her cubs
from danger. If others put your dreams down, the absolute
worst thing you could do is to agree with them. Honor your
dreams no matter what, no matter how stupid or worthless others
may think they are. What others think does not matter, only
your own opinion counts. Holding your dreams in high regard
will always keep a positive light shining upon them.
Prune Them - Our dreams and goals will often change over time,
just as we do. The older and wiser we get, we might realize
that the dreams of our youth might not suit us as we are today.
Periodically, take some time to re-evaluate your dreams and
goals. Take a closer look at them and decide if any aspects
might be pruned away or revised slightly. Goal-setting is
rarely a one-time activity. Rather, we need to consistently
evaluate our progress, and adjust our actions accordingly.
Give Them Room to Grow - Part of the pruning process described
above is what will create more room for your dreams to grow
bigger and better. But you can also take a look at whether
your original dreams were self-limiting in any way. Perhaps
you held back out of fear or hesitation, and now you feel
you are capable of more. Remove all doubts and uncertainties
and make as much room for your dreams as you can. Once they
begin to grow and take shape, they will expand and fill the
space you provided for them. At that point, you might need
to readjust everything again and make even more room. One
can hope, right? :-)
Wendy Betterini is a freelance writer who strives
to motivate, uplift, and inspire you to make your dreams a
reality. Visit her website, http://www.WingsForTheHeart.com
for more positive thoughts to help you on your journey.
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