On Manifesting and Living Your Dreams
Just yesterday I was at my mother’s house, and she handed me a poem I had written when I was 14. The funny thing about her doing this is that I was recently thinking about that poem and wondering what had happened to it. I remember writing it and having a lot of people tell me that they liked it. It was a rhyming poem, and the reaction I got to it inspired me to want to write more. When I read over the poem yesterday, I was struck with how much my viewpoint has changed since I was 14, but I also had some appreciation for my 14-year-old self and my writing ability at that time.
Then this morning when I opened my email, I had a response from the editor at The Daily Word. I had submitted a poem to the publication back in August and knew that they were considering my poem but then I didn’t hear back. Just recently I was thinking about that submission and whether I should follow up or maybe give it to my writer’s group to critique—just in case it needed improvement before being considered for publication. But the email indicated that The Daily Wordwanted to publish my poem.
I never cease to be amazed by how thoughts can manifest. I have been recently reading books by both Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra about how you can have your wishes fulfilled by envisioning what you want in detail and then acting as if that wish was already a reality.
Think about this: everything ever created was once just a thought in someone’s mind. And those thoughts manifested into things like reclining chairs, carpets, lamps…just to name a few things I can see around me right now. It makes me wonder where those thoughts come from. I believe all creativity is divinely inspired and when used for good, this creativity can make the world a better place.
That’s what I want to do—make the world better. Hopefully I can do that with my writing—whether it be creating study materials for the SAT and ACT or jokes that make people laugh or inspiring poetry. I feel like the talent I have been given with my writing ability is somehow related to my purpose in life. But even if I can’t make the world better with my writing, I can still strive to do things for others that will hopefully make their lives better.
I also believe that when things come easily for me, it means I’m heading in the right direction. I now view difficulties as roadblocks that make me reconsider what I’m doing and whether I should continue on the current path or whether I should be doing something else. Because every experience provides a learning opportunity, it’s good to stop and analyze what’s going on in your life on a regular basis. Are things falling into place, or are you really struggling? If it’s the latter, I would encourage you to look is what’s going on and see if there are any changes that you can make that will make your life better.
I did this just recently and made a decision to keep track of the number of hours I work. I feel like I work too much and don’t have enough balance of work, rest, and recreation in my life. After seeing that I work well over 40 hours for a salaried job that really pays me for 40, I decided to cut back on work to leave time for seeing my friends and family more. This will also give me time to write things like poems and jokes (such fun!)
As I often say, you only have the one life, so follow your dreams and try to spend as much time as possible doing things that make you happy!
Joke: The other day I saw a man with a fishing pole at the swimming pool. I asked him what he expected to catch as he baited his hook with a string. He replied: “The girl who lost this bikini.”
Quote: “If you can dream it, you can do it” – Walt Disney
Advice: What have believed to be true for your life has created the life you now how. If you want a different life, believe something different.