Achieving Halloween Dreams
September 9th, 2009 by John WolfeToday’s entry serves as my own inner inspirational dialogue regarding my dreams for Season of Shadows. Whether you have Halloween aspirations like mine (to pursue my vision of Halloween while making a generous living from this site and giving back to others) or not, I believe the following is applicable toward any goal.
While Season of Shadows, on the surface, is all about Halloween (and ghosts); underneath it’s a turbocharged engine fueled by ever expanding dreams. You see, I’m the type of person who still believes in Santa Claus. Scratch that. I’m the type of person who knows Santa Claus exists – not the man in the red suit, but the notion — the spirit and the essence.
That very essence is the representation of dreams and the unwavering faith we had as children. We didn’t give up on our dreams because they were impossible. Nothing is impossible. Instead, we gave up on them because we allowed someone else to convince us they were unachievable. I say to hell with that noise! Without dreams (no matter what they consist of) and without the white hot desire to take action toward achieving them; in the process never taking no for an answer, life is an empty shell.
Have you ever wanted to accomplish something so badly you could taste it? But even the imagined taste wasn’t the end of it? After swallowing the object of your desire, its succulent juices ooze out through every pore in your body and you begin to reek of your aspirations. Your skin burns like fire from the intensity of your desire laden sweat and you are inspired into doing whatever is necessary to bring it to fruition. In my opinion, that’s the type of inflamed passion required to accomplish your dreams.
There must be an impetus to follow your dreams wherever they may lead (minus self-imposed conditions); down any fear laden tunnel, over every uncomfortable bridge and through all avenues of uneasiness. Passion must be accompanied by ignoring fear and pressing on beyond your comfort zones.
You are an unstoppable force when you combine inflamed passion with definitiveness; a rock-solid, unwavering belief in your self; the understanding that sacrifices must be made; the power of giving back and tenacious, persistent action.
If you want it, you have to go after it again, and again and again and again. Failure is never an option! As for how to deal with those who have lost the belief in themselves and the belief in achieving their own dreams: lead by your own example and never, ever let their attitude or behavior influence you.
I find the following quotes (somewhat paraphrased) to be extremely inspirational:
Keenen Ivory Wayans, from the HBO documentary ‘The Blacklist’: “If you make certain you have something to fall back on while simultaneously working on your dreams – you’re going to fall.”
Richard Branson: “If you’re not doing what you love [and what you’re passionate about], you should not be doing it.”
Russell Simmons: “The only reason dreams are never achieved is because people give up — plain and simple.”
Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”
Hernando Cortez: “Burn the boats!” The historic conqueror inspired his troops to win the battle (on “enemy” soil) by burning their own ships. If they wanted to get home, they had to obtain the enemies’ boats. Guess what? They won the battle. What excuses do we use to keep us afloat, but apart from achieving our dreams?
The following two-part video contains a great deal of truth and inspiration. I watch it at least once a week.
Video source: You Tube user PrimeauProductions
September 9th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
“We become what we think about most of the time”.
Nice quote.
I hope I don’t turn into Super Sculpey.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Thanks for pumping me up on my day off, to go out and attain my dreams during this 24-hour respite.
September 9th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Mmmmmm, I’ve missed your more lengthly expressive blog writings. It’s been a spell and reading your more drawn out writings feels like……..when I drive around that last mountain before seeing the immense blue ocean. There is a feeling that comes over me when I turn the bend that’s hard to duplicate……..until I found your writings my friend
It’s as though all the craziness of the world STOPS for just a few minutes as I transport out to some other dimension. Thank you for sharing this and your spot on about everything that SOS means to me and all of your viewers out there.
Off note: Now that “things” have calmed down at work, I’ve been able to make contact again and it seems “she” was just waiting for me to do so. Most interesting really and “she” seems to be a rather aggressive spirit but in a good way. I thought T’s baby monitor was exciting…..lol, nothing compared to whats going on with this new one that is also part camera. Long story for some other time. I hope your well and talk to ya soon.
All My Best, Goldie~*~
September 10th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Ghoul Friday,
Due to my recent activities, it’s possible I may be morphing into a box of Franken Berry cereal. I’m outta control (doing my best Regis Philbin impression) with those things!
autumnforest,
It’s my pleasure. I’m glad the energy came through in the post, because I was definitely pumped up as I wrote it.
Goldie,
You know me when it comes to my writing style – as inspiration strikes, I go to it.
And I was highly inspired during the course of this entry! I can never thank you enough for how supportive you are of my blogging and the site in general.
Very cool to hear about the paranormal contact progressing. That’s exciting! Hopefully she has become a lot more comfortable with you now as well.