Dec 24, 2008
Are You Taking Action on Your Daydreams?
Daydreaming is extremely pleasant for both positive and negative folk. We all do it. Oh, boy! In his daydreams the self-pitying clerk inherits a fortune, quietly buys the company, and walks in one day to give a Bronx salute to his hated boss and tell him he’s fired by the new owner – the clerk, no less.
Roy Howard, who became a guiding genius of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, was once upon a time a penniless newsboy peddling the Indiana Daily Times. One day he walked in and bought the paper for cash.
By her wishful thinking Dolly Dizzysteps is picked up at the curb by the handsomest hunk of man imaginable, who screeches to a stop in a shining new Cadillac convertible.
He presents her with diamond jewelry and flies with her off to Dreamland in his private jet airplane. Actually, though, there was once a miner’s daughter who got married to a millionaire.
Every man can be a superman in his daydreams. Every woman can be whatever women want most to be in her daydreams. Amazingly enough, like Roy Howard and the miner’s daughter, there are many men and women who do make their dreams come true in full or in great part.
Many others could make their dreams come true, too. There has to be a strong desire, though. And a positive, can-do attitude. Those who have that mindset are those who transform their reality.
Those who stolidly practice the negative attitude condemn themselves to a life of unrealized dreams. They fail to recognize that man’s infinite capacity to fool himself makes wishful thinking without positive action more damaging than all the opiates and the hard liquors of the ages.
There are two distinct types of daydreamers: The positive daydreamer, who takes action to gratify his wishes, who takes definite steps to turn dreams into reality, who tackles his problem in particular, will get results. The negative type who doesn’t act, will not.
