Dreaming Impossible Dreams

"I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine."

It is 2am.

But despite the fact that I am exhausted, physically and mentally spent from the stress of a long day just over, I am unable to sleep.

My mind is busy thinking, thinking..

Of character.
Of passion.
Of thinking big.
Of achievement beyond your wildest dreams.

My mind cannot let go of the quote which I stumbled across earlier today.

Dream impossible dreams?

Not many people dare to do that.

It takes a very rare breed of people who are willing to even take that first step in thinking big, in expecting great things, in breaking psychological barriers of what they might be able to achieve.

Can you imagine WHAT we could achieve if we just for a moment opened our minds? It is that kind of liberating moment when you walk out to look up at the stars in the night sky rather than staring at a man-made cement ceiling 3 meters above your head.

The amount of possibilities is endless.
And the thought itself, mind blowing.

Nobody said it would be easy to achieve big dreams. We all know by now that life never gets any easier or less busy. Winning and achieving takes hard work.

But your DREAM gives you the direction in which to work.
And you need your dream to be CRAZY and IMPOSSIBLE, because only then will you push yourself to prove otherwise.
And of course, you gotta Really. Want. It.

The leaders of my company are teaching me that.

From my MD's big dream figure for our final quarter as a company to my Sales Head's individual target for each of us sales account managers, they are playing the game of inception.

First, they instill the thought, the dream.
And although one's first reaction upon hearing the Q4 target is "That's insane!", the figure has already been branded in our minds like a hot iron.
And no matter what we think or do, we cannot forget about it.
And eventually, slowly but surely, with much inward fear and trembling, we begin to think that maybe, just maybe..it might not be that insane after all.

Not if we work REAAALLY hard.
And want it REAAALLY badly.

You know what I want?

I want to be able to say, at the end of March, that insane dreams CAN become a reality.
I want to prove to myself that impossible is nothing.
I want my greatest fear to be - not that I cannot achieve something - but that I am capable of achieving beyond all that I ever hoped or dreamed. BECAUSE THAT'S JUST DOWNRIGHT SCARY.

Former Major League baseball player and manager Tommy Lasorda said, "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."

Well.... I may be a girl, but if determination is what it takes to make the IM disappear, then so be it. (: