Securing Dreams ... Avoiding Nightmares

Ten years ago I left my birth country of Kenya in pursuit of the dream of a better life in America. I won’t ever forget my late younger brother’s words as he hugged me and bid me farewell at the Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. He said, “Don’t let your best dreams become your worst nightmares”. I was stunned when I heard this! These words left a powerful imprint in my heart. Throughout my entire 17 hour flight from Nairobi to Dallas, TX, I kept on mulling over these words. In the process of mulling over the words I started developing for myself a strategy for actualizing my best dreams. My strategy is captured in my first book, The Road to Arrival: Ten Empowering Principles for Actualizing Your Dreams. In this book I focused on ten power-packed principles that are essential for making dreams come true. If dreams are not pursued with massive action, they can easily become nightmares.

What’s your dream? What’s that one thing you absolutely believe you were born to do? What keeps you up at night and keeps you dreaming during the day? What’s your greatest desire in terms of accomplishments? Each of us have been created with a desire for greatness. There is no human being who does not have the capability to dream big dreams. Greatness does not necessarily mean being rich and famous. Greatness is simply understanding what you were born to do and doing it to your utmost potential. All human beings have the potential to dream great dreams and achieve them. T.E. Lawrence, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, said, “All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” Don’t let your dreams become nightmares. Back them up with massive action and sound strategies. May your resolution for 2012 be simply: to make your dreams come true. Go for it!