I first met Howard Parsons, today’s guest blogger, just a few short months ago when I went to my first Summer of Peace Calgary 2o12 meeting. I immediately knew I had a friend for life and, I understood why Kerry loves him so much. He is straight forward, intent on being his best, a natural teacher and caring and giving. Howie, writes Hopeful Notes from Howie J., every morning — short, to the point actionable ideas on how to live your best life yet. Howie continually strives to create better in the world.

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I Have A Dream

by Howard Parsons

I have a dream to bring so much hope and inspiration to the world that the world will be a better place when I leave it.

Do you have a dream? I don’t mean the kind you have at night although they can be informative; I mean a dream for your life that is so big you need help from all sorts of resources to make it happen.

I think every child has a dream for their life. When they play, they make up stuff and play in it with so much attention that it is real to them. Then someone comes along and says “stop that daydreaming, it will get you nowhere.” The child learns to adapt to their surroundings, to follow the rules and play the game of life the way it has been taught by elders.

You can change the world. One person, that’s you, can make a difference wherever you are. You just choose it.

I know one of the challenges you might have is that you will have forgotten your dreams. You will have forgotten how to dream. The day to day shuffle of life with all its responsibilities and energy drains leaves little time to consider having a dram.

Now is the time to pick it up again. It doesn’t matter how old or young you are. You just sit down in a quiet space and ask about your dream. You remember being a fireman or an artist or a singer. These were dreams that were put aside for more practical matters.

Now you have your quiet space to bring your dream alive. It may be a whole new dream. Perhaps it is to participate in world peace or to feed the hungry or shelter those who have none.

Your dream is special. It is unique and precious and you need the time to bring it alive now. Take the time from your busy life and give it a try. Sit down quietly and ask. It may take some practice but I guarantee you the dream will come. It will be crazy and you might think, “How could I do that?” Don’t let the size, texture or complexity get in your way. Dreams are such that they don’t follow the old rules you and I have been living by for so long.

Dreams are precious and you need to nurture your dream. Let it mature as you move into it and start to see how you can make a difference in this world we call home.

As you think like a kid again, your dream becomes real and big and juicy!  It is alive in you and you start to take it out into the world and make it live for those that see for themselves their dream coming out of your dream. Now you have the multiplier effect and what a wow that is!

You are a special person with a dream inside you. I ask you to go in and get it now because the world needs more dreamers. The world needs your dream. Let it come, courageously take it into the world and see what it possible. There are no rules in the dream game. There is only the possibility of a world that will be better off because you have brought your dream to it. That, my friend, will make a difference in your world and the world of many you have not met yet.

I am Howard Parsons, The Moving On Coach working with men and women struggling with meaning and purpose. I am the author of Hopeful Notes from Howiej which is the reality of my dream to bring hope and inspiration to the world.

http://www.hopefulnotesfromhowiej.com