- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
- Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
Imagine your life as you wish it would be. What would you see? Where would you live, who would be with you, how would you spend your time? Do you have a vision for your life, or do you live one day at a time? Does it make a difference which way you proceed?
The vision for our lives is always evolving. What we wanted 5 or 10 years ago is much different than that which we seek today. Today we seek simplicity, not complexity; authenticity, not status; and meaning, not money. Well, maybe meaning and money, rather than not.
Napoleon Hill wrote that you were not given dreams and desires without the capabilities to fulfill them; so the mere presence of those dreams means they are truly possible for us.
One time each year where we go off and spend a weekend talking about what we want in our lives. We call it “Let’s Pretend Day” and it is a powerful animating and celebratory event in our partnership. We review what is good, what is not, and modify the vision for our future.
I wish that we had kept an entirely separate journal of just those weekends. We are coming up on our 20th Let’s Pretend Day.
Maybe I will begin that journal this year.
