Have you ever watched children use their imagination while playing? As they grow older, they are often told to stop daydreaming, focus, and take their head out of the clouds. Even as adults we are often told to stop dreaming and come back to the real world. Ironically, in the real world, the leaders in cutting edge technology, scientific development, research and marketing, and many more fields are asking their associates to dream and imagine more. In fact, it is the dreamers, daydreamers, and those who are not afraid to go into the ‘enchanted forest’ who have driven progress for us throughout the years. The Wright brothers were thought to be crazy until they combined the imaginary worlds of many before them and became the first to have sustained and controllable flight. Their unwillingness to give up their imagination has resulted in roughly ten thousand airplanes being the air, worldwide, on any given day and time.
Whether you are 30, 60, or 90 years old, you’ve probably had some dreams you lost along the way. Some may be lost forever, some are still doable, and some may have turned into nightmares. Just as we sometimes wake up and cannot remember our dreams, many of the dreams and aspirations we once had are now only faded memories. Before you despair over lost dreams, let me remind you the most amazing thing about us is not our dreams but the fact that we can dream new dreams at any age. Perhaps God give us sleep each night so we can dream and see possibilities and awakens us each morning to have another opportunity to turn dreams into possibilities, and possibilities into realities.
In order to be disciplined for success, we may need to develop a disciplined imagination which allows us time to keep back and daydream. All reality started with an image, and our imagination has endless possibilities.