May All Your Dreams Come True!

When someone used to tell me 'May all your dreams come true!' I would think about all my dreams for a couple of minutes and how wonderful it would be if that actually happened, and then just wait for all those dreams to come true, not doing anything myself, of course.

Sometimes I would indulge myself in a vision of winning the lottery and having countless amounts of money in my bank account, allowing me to lie all day long on pristine beaches in the most remote places in the world, while sitting on the sofa and looking at the raindrops falling on the window.

Other times I would find myself thinking how very unfair it was that other people had it so easy in life and I didn't, so I would keep dreaming about winning the lotto.

Yet so many people win the lottery every day, why shouldn't I?

I am sure that this kind of wishful thinking is known to us all and, at some point in our lives, everyone has wished that, if they just won the lottery, all their dreams would come true.

Nowadays, I find 'Stop wishing, start doing' a better method of making my dreams come true.

The amount of work I put in every single day towards my goal is proportional to the outcome.

The work is slow and hard quite often, so the more I enjoy the process, the better.

What really works for me when I put a lot of work in but still don't see the overall achievement, is to be grateful for those little steps I get to make day after day. I guess, if I look at what I have achieved on a daily basis, it doesn't make that much of a difference.

However, if I look at what I have done in a year, where I was in my life a year ago and where I am now, I do have a better perspective and a greater appreciation.

When I look at my life now, at my dreams and goals, I can see that the dreams and goals are not much different, but the life I am living and the behaviors I choose now are completely different from those from years ago.

I think that my everyday goal now is to be a better me than I was yesterday.

To better myself in everything I do, at work, in writing, being a better human being.

Just a bit better than yesterday.

I keep my dreams very big - it means that if someone wishes me now 'May all your dreams come true!' I know I have a lot of work to do until the end of my life.

On the same note, I keep my dreams big but simple.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.