Every day, we hear people wishing for things things that we would like to see happen, things we are going to do someday and things that should go our way. It seems that the moment these wishes are uttered, the person expressing these wishes enjoys a relative peace of mind that temporarily satisfies the speakers yen. In parallel, the speaker feels that the world has now been notified that:
O We are worth it
O It is mine for the taking
O I am successful
These wishful words are usually, more often than not however, a verbal and mental sedative that give us a false sense of impending achievement as countless wishes rarely materialize.
I saw a saying a long time ago that was so simple. but when I read it. I knew that it had some meaning that demanded I change my own habits.
‘Happy are those who dream dreams, and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.’
I took a double take on those words and committed them to memory and at that moment in time vowed that I would speak with conviction in everything I did, knowing full well that I would have to ‘pay a price.’ The price may be time, it may be money or it...