Dreams

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I came across this quote by Robin Sharma the other day ~ “Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths”. What do you think? How does one grow and learn if not through life’s dead ends, detours, roundabouts, and bumps in the road? Did I mention roundabouts, yes there are always a few roundabouts, there to revisit lessons not yet learned or to view situations through different (more mature) eyes. Do difficult situations result in you changing direction? Or lead to you giving up on your dreams?

Do you believe your dreams are worth persisting and fighting for, to achieve them when obstacles present blocks and barriers? Our dreams are full of our hopes and wishes, yet generally speaking, they usually don’t come to fruition without a lot of hard work, right? On the flip side of this, does that make your dreams even more special after you put in all that hard work to achieve them? Are our dreams worth changing and growing for?

The photo above is an example of what started out as a small dream. I really wanted floating wooden shelves for my counselling office space. The first photo is of a hardwood external very old step, it had lots of coats of paint, and some dry rot and had definitely seen better days. The process should have been easy, take the steps to a wood place and have the boards ripped to remove the outer layers, exposing the beautiful red hardwood hidden underneath. But no business would touch the step due to the age of the steps and the likelihood of potential unseen nails that would wreck their expensive machine blades. I was asked if I really needed these shelves as it would be labour intensive to achieve my dream shelves and easier to just buy some. As you can see, where there is a will there is a way. The boards were painstakingly sanded back, the rot sections were cleaned and then filled with black putty, followed by a couple of natural coats of varnish to bring out the rich red colour of the boards. When no premade fixture kits were available to attach the shelves to the wall to create the floating effect, steel plates and rods were crafted to create the mechanism that would support the very heavy shelves. It turned out to be so much more planning, creating and work than initially considered, but the end results were worth all the hard work. They look fantastic in my office space.

I can always remember having dreams, whether they have been small or big and seemingly out of my reach, just as I suspect you have. For example, one of my early dreams was to marry and have children, there was no forethought into just how involved and difficult this might be when I was a child. I didn’t care about that I just wanted my dreams to come true. I have achieved many dreams over my lifetime, some of which have been built on the back of achieving other dreams that have at times, been significantly influenced by events in my life. If certain events hadn’t happened, I believe my dreams would have looked very different.

Dreams are so very easy to conjure from our thoughts and feelings, though if there are lots of moving parts that just don't seem to want to work together, what do you do, give up, try another tactic, alter your dreams, or do you stay the course knowing it WILL eventually be possible. Your dreams, big or small are all important.  So keep dreaming, lovely people.

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