Dream the Impossible Dream

To think of riches, when one is in the condition of poverty or lack, requires sustained and concentrated thought; but he who practices this disciplined thinking inevitably becomes rich, and he can have whatever he wants.~Joseph Murphy

How do you seize courage when your whole world is collapsing around you?

You do it by picturing the opposite.

You ignore what is before you and you focus on what is within you.

When you create a dream, you must nourish it. This nourishing has to happen in good times and in bad times.

Rather than suspend your belief, suspend the value you place on what you see before you. If for example, you dream of making money in your own business but all you see around you is the harassment and poverty of your circumstances, choose to nourish the inner and take no value from the outer.

What appears around you as lack is but the outcome of your past thoughts. Your current thoughts of belief in plenty are the ground on which you will form the architecture of your abundance. The emotions that you invest in your dreams are the rain that nourishes the seeds of your desires.

It takes a strong will to think in a way that is contrary to sensible thought. Yet the reasonable person makes no progress, settling always for the obvious. Progress and the future of the world depend on the unreasonable one, who believes visions over actuality.

The dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they bring their vision into creation.

How often we rob ourselves of our dreams, ransacking them like bandits, savagely denuding ourselves of our own power.

When Martin Luther King raised his voice against the oppression of his race, he did not see what was before him but what was within him. His dream was so vivid, so powerful, so convincing that others shared it with him. It became such a force in the world that even his death could not stop that dream of equality from taking shape.

Similarly, when Nelson Mandela dreamed of a better world for his race and for his country, neither imprisonment, humiliation, and prolonged exile could staunch the flow of his vision. Today because he held the dream, sharing it with other freedom fighters, the impossible happened and apartheid collapsed in South Africa.

When the British Empire seemed the only great power in the world, a puny, skinny Indian man dared to dream a different dream. While his eyes saw the stranglehold of his native land by a power that embraced the world, Mahatma Ghandi dared dream

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Your Dream is Calling You!

"An uncommon dream will require careful and wise use of your time" ~ Mike Murdock

We’ve all been encouraged by someone to go out and live our dreams. Our dreams have even been calling us for many years but we have not taken the call. Most of us will look at the caller Id and not answer. There’s also a percentage of us that hide behind the excuse -- "I don't know what my calling is" or "I don't have a dream." Ignorance is not an excuse for remaining in the bleachers of life and refusing to come onto the playing field. As my mentor always says, “Excuses are the tools of the incompetent used to build bridges that go absolutely nowhere.” The truth of the matter is that most people have let fear paralyze them.

Well no need to worry, your dream is STILL calling you. Your dreams are orchestrating certain events in your life, specifically designed to get your full attention. Here are some of the methods being used to get your attention -- downsizing, resizing, restructuring, outsourcing, trimming the force... and there are many more. You can no longer hide behind the security blankets of life. Healthcare is not healthy! Social Security is not secure! Your 401k is not OK! You are being forced to pursue what has been planted on the inside of you. Many of us are visited by ideas, concepts, insights and knowledge of witty inventions, that we never act on. It is time to finally take action on our talents, gifts, opportunities, and dreams!

I know many of you reading this will say, "I'm too old” or "It's too late for me." The old saying goes, “You can't teach an old dog new tricks.” Well I’m hear to tell you... that's only a myth. According to a study featured in the May 2005 issue of Fast Company, our brains have extraordinary "plasticity", meaning that we can continue learning new and complex things throughout our lives, assuming we remain truly active and engaged. Make a decision today to remove all excuses and accept the calling on your life. If you truly don't know what your purpose or dream in life is, then stop all recreational activities until you figure it out! It's that crucial; it’s worth discovering. Seek it until it is revealed, then pursue it with everything that's in you! Uncover what it is you love to do so much, that you'd do it for free. Once you've figured that out, do it so well that people will want to pay you for it!

So, stop reading and go get busy today... Your Dream is Calling You!

About The Author

Chris Gloss, "The Possibilitarian" - Speaker, Author, Personal and Business Coach.

Whether coaching sales teams, company execs, or individuals, it’s unquestionably Chris’ inborn ability to arouse his audience with passion and conviction, to reach beyond self imposed limitations, that brands him the consummate motivator. Having reached the seemingly impossible in his own life, Chris Gloss truly is the message that he brings!

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Living Your Dream

By now, you’ve probably heard about the incredible performance by Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent. What an amazing display of allowing your soul to fly.

Watching the video, you realize that not only the judges but the audience as well were prejudging her before she started. They were sure she would make a fool of herself. Some were even laughing.

And boy did she surprise everyone. A standing ovation and 3 Yeses…… a record for the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Susan is a perfect example of someone being willing to come forth with their dream and regardless of what others think, going for it. How much courage did it take for her to stand on that stage, watching the judge’s faces (especially Simon’s) and then sing?

We can learn much from Susan about expressing our passion and letting our soul fly high. Before going onstage, Susan said, “I am going to rock the audience”. So not only does she have courage, she has a deep faith in herself.

How about you? Are you allowing your soul to fly?

What would happen if you decided to act as if you could reach your dream? As if you did have courage and faith within yourself? How much could you change your life?

Some of you might be saying that if you had the courage or faith, you’d be living your dream, so now what do you do? Both of the characteristics can be enhanced by small actions we can take on a regular basis.

To begin to develop courage and faith in yourself, put these six things into practice for a week and notice the difference in yourself.

1. Begin by taking small steps. Do a little something each day toward your dream. It can be as simple as making a phone call to someone about how to get started. Or start a business plan.

2. Say No when you don’t want to do something or don’t have the time to do it. Oftentimes, we give in to others and agree to things we don’t want to do out of fear of them disliking us or of confrontation or that we’ll appear selfish. You can say no politely and tell them maybe next time. Each time you honor your own commitments, you build faith in yourself.

3. Think back over your life and make note of the times you made the right decisions or actions. Many of us have a tendency to only notice what we’ve done wrong and to emotional berate ourselves over it. Switch that over to being aware of the times when you “did it right”!

4. Acknowledge when you do something well or a decision you make works out as you wanted. The more we notice ourselves doing what we consider to be “right”, the more we can begin to hear that small still voice of intuition.

5. You know that one thing you keep putting off because of anxiety? Tomorrow morning, first thing, do it. Like Nike says, Just Do It. Bite the bullet, take a deep breath and go for it. Whether it’s a call you’ve put off or going for a run. Tell yourself you can do this one thing. And then Do It. You’ll have so much more faith in yourself for accomplishing that one thing.

6. When you find yourself using self-limiting language…..things like, “I can’t do that” or “I’m not good enough”…….change it to a positive. Come up with the opposite statement and then run it like a mantra. Say it over and over to yourself. After awhile, you’ll automatically say the positive statement.

My suggestion is to do each one of these for the next week and notice what happens.

Taking small steps everyday, will over time, build up your courage and belief in yourself. Then you too can, like Susan, proclaim that you are going to “rock their world” and let your soul fly!

About The Author

© Copyright 2009, Debra Fentress: Life Change Catalyst© Debra Fentress is committed to assisting others in achieving the outcomes they desire in their life and business. Author, international speaker and owner of a personal-growth training company, she provides seminars, trainings and coaching worldwide.

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Inventor Comes Up With Dream Product

While his natural curiosity has often led inventor Frank Miller of Ponte Vedra Beach to research and development, his diagnosis of prostate cancer six years ago added another kind of R&D to his repertoire -- resolve and determination.

"I had no insurance when I was diagnosed with cancer," he recalled. "I was dead broke and nearly dead when I picked myself up off the floor and started researching an idea that had been in the back of my mind for years. I had nothing left but time on my hands and the intense desire to leave something of value behind me."

Frank's idea? Inventing an environmentally safe, non-solvent metal cleaner that would work in engines, gear-boxes, transmissions and any type of oil-lubricated equipment.

An application engineer who worked in the printing industry for some 30 years, Miller said he spent much of his career "knee-deep" in petroleum-based solvents used to clean printing presses. He's convinced that his close proximity to those solvents brought on his cancer.

"I found out that my fellow in-plant technicians nearly all had the same cancer," Miller said. "It's the constant eight hours a day, five days a week of solvents getting into your skin and pores that does it, and it's in the air that we breathe. Solvents do not disappear. When they drift from the printing plant or through the emissions from your car, they hang onto leaves and drop into the grass. They are there forever."

Physically weak and financially strapped, Miller spent hours at his computer, searching the Internet for the newest non-solvent, non-petroleum chemical technology.

"I was determined to find a formula that would clean metal and not poison me," he said, "and I found it in Natralube 1006, a natural occurring ester chemical formula developed by the Fanning Corp. With that formula as a base, we developed the pourability that would make the product viable."

After independent field and emissions tests and receiving U.S. application patent No. 6,544,349 for the cleaner, which he named Auto-RX, Miller arranged with Haviland Consumer Products in Grand Rapids, Mich., to produce and bottle it, set up his Web site and began marketing it over the Internet.

"It was a stroke of genius to sell it only over the Internet," said Miller's friend, Michael Camar of Jacksonville Beach. "Frank has complete control over his invention. He answers his phone and his e-mails, fields questions and gives advice one-on-one to customers. That kind of service is rare these days. Frank's invented the most ecologically safe product I've ever seen, and it's working in engines everywhere from California to the People's Republic of China."

Camar and Miller met recently to add a 12-ounce bottle of Auto-RX to the oil in Camar's 1994 Ford Taurus.

"After 35 years in the operations end of the oil business, I was a skeptic," said Camar, now retired, "but I've watched Frank market Auto-RX and seen the e-mail testimonies pour in, so I had to try it. This old car had some transmission problems, but since Auto-RX went into my transmission fluid, the results have been remarkable. Now, it's going into my oil. As Frank says, a clean engine is a healthy engine, and since better combustion equals better gas mileage, that's for me!"

On Miller's Web site, www.auto-rx.com, and other Web sites frequented by auto enthusiasts, such as www.bobistheoilguy.com, the buzz about Auto-RX is predominantly positive.

"I have noticed an increase that went from 18 miles per gallon to 21 miles per gallon," wrote Daryl Baines of DeLand. "On my daily commute, coming home tonight, I did tank top up and got 27 MPG versus my normal 24.5! .. . Woo Woo ... Snake oil, I think not," wrote Steve On from Palmdale, Calif.

Frank Nipper of Jacksonville said a lubrication specialist recommended that he try Auto-RX for the rear main seal oil leak in his 1987 Mitsubishi pickup truck.

"It just absolutely stopped the leak," Nipper said. "It seems Frank has a really effective product."

"It cost me less per bottle than the present-day cost of a tank of gas, and my engine in my 2002 Chrysler Sebring is worth $6,000," said John Marchant of Jacksonville's Northside. "The dealership told me I had sludge in the engine and they couldn't do anything for me. I put Auto-RX in my oil. My engine is now quieter and running smoother. It's working."

After about five years of marketing on the Internet, and the addition of new lines including 3-RX for printing presses and Cycle-RX for motorcycles, Miller recently incorporated his business.

"I just need a couple more years to make my dreams come true and leave a legacy for my four kids and four grandkids," he said.

"I've devoted myself to staying alive and getting this thing off the ground," he said. "I go in for treatments every four months, work out twice a day, eat a lot of healthy green stuff like broccoli, and take a battery of strong nutrients over and above the chemo. I'm not afraid to die. I just want to die well, knowing that I've done something good. I'm praying to God that my kids inherit a company they can be proud of or the money from the sale of that company. Either way, I'll be in the history books as the guy who did this."

About The Author

Susan D. Brandenburg is a free-lance writer who lives in Ponte Vedra Beach. Contact her at 543-0730 or e-mail susand1@bellsouth.net.