Always another way

Perhaps you’ve now been beaten down so often by the challenges that you see no way around them. But the past does not equal the future. Just because you’ve never before been able to get over the mountain does not prevent you from finding a new and successful approach that will get you over that mountain.

There is always another way. The dreams you have are yours because you are the person who can make them real. Those dreams do not exist to tease you or to frustrate you. Their purpose is to inspire and motivate you to more fully express your most authentic purpose. Connect yourself to that purpose. Explore the reasons behind the desires you feel.

Perhaps a specific expression of your dream is simply not possible. But that fact in no way diminishes your dream or prevents you from reaching it. You simply must create a different expression for that dream. Consider, for example, that your dream is to live in a cabin beside a mountain lake. You search for and find the perfect cabin beside a beautiful mountain lake. But it is not for sale and probably never will be. That’s no reason to abandon your dream. For there are other lakes and other cabins. You just have to put some more effort into finding and achieving another expression of the same dream.

You’ll often find that by the time your dreams get to the surface of your awareness, they’ve taken on many arbitrary qualities that don’t matter one way or another. So it’s important to explore beneath the surface. Ask yourself why you want what you want. The specific expressions of your dream are important, because they give you something tangible to move toward. But the underlying dream itself is even more important, for that is what will drive you to do whatever is necessary to reach it.