“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”
– Lao Tzu
Ah, Vision…..The Land of Great Imaginings where your Inner Fairy Princess waves her virtual wand and makes all your dreams come true. A magical world where hope grows on trees and the rivers flow with the sweet elixir of the possible. A land of illimitable yes.
The Land of Vision is a place where no desire is too fantastic, no dream too fanciful. A place where the you of your greatest imaginings (wearing Tom Ford, of course) accepts her second Oscar with a speech that will have them talking for years–––without the wardrobe malfunction.
There are no Naysayers or Bubble Bursters in the Land of Vision. No editorials or ‘yeah buts.’ They live in another world––a cold and scary dominion that you will eventually have to visit, but not now; not yet.
For now, you are going to let yourself dance with joy from the sheer, magnificent possibility of it all. You are going to walk the Red Carpet; launch the next Internet powerhouse; find the cure for cancer. Script that Ted talk; pack for your book tour. You are going to imagine yourself exactly where and how you want to be.
So yes, reality will eventually try and strip the sparkles from your wand. But not today. Today, you’re rocking it. And the stadium is sold-out.
