Chase Your Dreams And Start Living

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Chase Your Dreams – Life Happens

We start out in life with pretty much the same career ladder.  We are told that we will go to school and then decide what we want to do in adulthood.  We then are told that we will have to work hard until we retire to take care of and support our families.  Now, not everyone does it the same way but pretty much everyone has done just that. 

The bad thing is that what people dream of doing are not typically what people ‘decide’ to do after school.  When the time comes and it’s time to go to work, you take whatever position you can get. Instead of choosing to chase your dreams, you somehow get caught up in a career path that wasn’t necessarily what you imagined doing. Work becomes a rut, a daily grind.  There are good times along the way but the 40 hour work week is not the magical, happy picture that you thought it was growing up.

Why didn’t you chase your dreams?  Where did your dreams go?  Some of them are realized by promotions, on vacations, with family, through hobbies, etc.  For the most part though the big dream is snuffed out.  You may even forget what you wanted to be when you grow up. You may not be living the lifestyle you planned for yourself and your family.

You Should Chase Your Dreams

They say you only live once.  They also say that the only reason a person is where they are is because they put themselves there.  These are true statements.  A bit hard to take at times but true.  Another true statement:

You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results!

So if you want to live the lifestyle you desire you need to start to chase your dreams. It may mean that you may have to sacrifice things in the short term to get to where you want to be long term but it will be worth it.  Don’t put it off any longer, remember that tomorrow never comes.  Get started today with your plan and set your goals to help you get there. 

Chasing your dreams is totally worth the pursuit and the work it takes to achieve it!

Chase Your Dreams Quotes

I want to leave you with some quotes.  Think about them and realize the power is in you.  I believe in you, I believe you can do it, the time is now!

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.” – Steven J Ross

“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

So, chase your dreams.  Dig down deep inside and believe it can happen, because it can!

To your success!!

Mary Riley