Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Dreams

Dreams visit us when we are asleep,
but GOD is truly wise as he wakes us up each day
and gives us every chance to make our dreams come true …

Saying the phrase reminds me about “Living to hope and hoping to live” and something even beyond it, the beauty and importance of having and keeping our dreams as the energy and soul of life itself. Isn’t it something that everyone should have throughout lifetime’s ups and downs? More else, the chance that God grants us each day!! What promising realism it is, indeed, unless one wants to stay living in hopelessness. I mean even a dying person may still have hopes, any hopes till the last breath he/she takes.

I have been living with the dynamism of my emotional state and self-journey. I may say that I am constantly inconsistent in away as I always have new different dreams every time. There have been of course, some clear and obsessing dreams which I constantly remember them, and therefore, keep me trying to make them into reality. In some extent, some people had involved in helping me shaping them into a clearer vision, mission and action. They also took part when a few of the “seemed-to-be the impossible” dreams were taking place.

A few experiences of mine proved that biggest dreams of life’s moments had led to their own mysterious way of coming into reality. It seems to me that as if all possibilities facilitated us to reach the dreams we die for.

I remember participating in a Multi Level Marketing (MLM) seminar, when the speaker strongly suggested us have some dreams in life. In any MLM presentations, there is always a call for people to have big dreams, make them into clear visualization, get them obsessing the persons involved, and make attempts for the big, clear pictures of the dream into reality. I somewhat less like it. Maybe it is about the way how these ideas are injected to people. To me personally, it sounds rather excessive.

Stephen R Covey in his book: “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, listing seven principles of habits for a successful life. People who wish to achieve true interdependent effectiveness. Begin with the End in Mind – one of the chapters that Covey wrote about setting long-term goals based on "true north" principles. Covey recommends formulating a "personal vision statement" to document one's perception of one's own vision in life. He sees visualization as an important tool to develop this. This principal, he said, also deals with organizational vision statements, which Covey claimed to be more effective if developed and supported by all members of an organization rather than prescribed.

In context of management in general, whether in business, public or private management, I think the “dreams” is translated as “vision and mission” or the organization. It is the basic of what goals and objectives that an organization has, sets up, and defines. It is how the organization should conceptually and operationally leads to achieve its goals and objectives. All of these begin from a good and strong leader, a leader who is a visionary founding father (the founder) of an organization. I think I may choose Mahatma Gandhi to be an example.

Psychologically, I think without dreams, people are getting less motivated. It applies in most cases. I think lazy person has very vague dreams. These people just either ignore the effort taking for keeping the dreams get stronger, or failed to be tough and persistent. It could be either they are less motivated persons, or do not have any motivation at all, in the absence of clear-and-rather haunting dreams. The persons could possibly be pessimistic.

Spiritually speaking, people with a little faith may keep their dreams become bigger, clearer and more visible. Faith is for all, whether one is a religious, having a religion or any kind of faith, or even an atheist. An atheist can be very faithful unto himself. He has big dreams, too. Once I met such a person, who has a strong will, almost incidentally unshaken life principles, tough battle and unquestionable motivation to reach all his dreams. I learnt that in some extent, he has achieved at least, some “worldly” life success.

For me, it is not at all less beautiful than the dreams, to have found some persons, from whom I am inspired to speak my mind about dreams, my dreams, and how I am reminded to learn that in every new day to come, in every moment to pass means another chance to meet my dreams come true.