In Others’ Words: Make a Wish

Wishes can come true … 

… but only if you stop wishing and do something about them.

How’s that for a practical thought to start your day?

And yes, there’s a certain energy to wishes and dreams … a creative buzz, if you will. Dreaming isn’t a waste of time unless that’s all we ever do. Dreams are meant to become something more … something real …

And that’s where the planning has to happen.

A book, for example, begins with an idea — the “what if,” we authors like to call it. And we dream about that story idea for awhile. Hours. Days. Weeks, even. We toss it around with other writer-friends. But, at some point, we have to take all that dream-energy and turn it into planning-energy. (I won’t say plotting, because not all writers consider themselves plotters. Some just get right down to the business of writing — “the plan” is the writing. No plot needed.)

Wishes are the seeds of dreams . . . and dreams need to be watered and allowed to grow into something real. And that takes planning. Action. We have to go beyond “wish I may, wish I might” and get to the doing of the dream.

In Your Words: What are you wishing for … dreaming of … today? What’s one step you can take — one action you can do — today to move toward your dream? 

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