Have you ever had a brilliant idea and thought to yourself, “I am going to do this…this is great. This will change everything. This will empower me, bring out the best in me, and help me move closer to my goal.”
And…well…it doesn’t!
Welp, I have had many of those “brilliant” ideas that have gone unrealized of which I have cried bitter tears over. I have sat in my self-pity and wondered, what happened? I thought that was a wonderful idea? I thought that was what I was supposed to do or worse yet, I believe “God was in it”…
HA…though all of those thoughts may have been true at the moment, they were not sustainable. I know that can be a HUGE letdown. It may be a plethora of things, not the right time, not the right execution, not the right intention, not the right motive, not the right circumstances, not the right team…and the list can go on and on.
So, how do you get past an unfulfilled idea, a dream deferred?
YOU DREAM AGAIN…
You keep coming up with other ideas. You reset your circumstances, motives, intentions, time, and team and start again from a place of experience. You re-assess what worked and what did not work. You allow yourself to be disappointed, and you move on. We often like to commiserate too long in disillusionment, where the blame game comes to visit and stays far too long. That is simply a big waste of your creative and intellectual time.
GET UP and MOVE ON.
I know there are circumstances that we can dwell on and situations that are way beyond our control that can disrupt an idea or dream. That, too, needs to be brushed off. Life is moving forward while we are dwelling on the “what ifs.” When we stay in that mind frame, we let moments of clarity slip by.
There is always something next…
DREAM AGAIN!