I'm in the middle of Stephen Covey's 8th Habit, and early on in the book a paragraph jumped out at me. It echoes what I just posted about the other day talking about the iceberg analogy of what I see and the possibility that actually exists, as well as my post about giving ourselves permission to dream.
All things are created twice: first, a mental creation; second, a physical creation. The first creation, vision...represents desire, dreams, hopes, goals, and plans. But these dreams and visions are not just fantasies. They are reality not yet brought into the physical sphere, like the blueprint of a house before it's built or musical notes in a score just waiting to be played.
Most of us don't envision or realize our own potential. William James said, "Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. We all have reservoirs of energy and genius to draw upon whe we do not dream."
Each of us has immeasurable power and capacity to reinvent our lives...
There tends to be a notion out there that dreams are impractical, unlikely fluff, but as Covey says, those dreams are the blueprints for the future we want to build.
It reminds me of a great Thoreau quote that goes, "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
Curt Rosengren
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