The Right to Dream

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” Bernard Edmonds

You must become strategic and deliberate in your life-hood experiences. You do have a choice in the experiences you share within your lifetime. The choice may never be obvious but it does always exist. We must start to invest our energy in direct connections with our life long goals. Hard work is not always enough to obtain the goal. It is a mistake to believe that hard work alone always yields great results. This ideology of hard work alone embeds a person with misunderstanding the purpose of hard work. The truth is that having effort alone doesn’t necessarily mean you are effective and that in order to obtain a goal, you must be able to visually foresee its occurrence within your future. Are you a dreamer? Does your thoughts inter-scope all your capabilities or wants in an ability? In other words, you must BELIEVE the goal is possible for existence into your life. Regardless of those who oppose your dreams, the chaos or undesired situations impacting your life’s current settlement. You cannot win against that which you will not see and confront to change. Therefore, it posses the question: Are you fighting to obtain a goal without aim? Periodically, all of us face those seasons of life that are difficult to survive. Often these seasons of uncertainty are brought about by circumstances seemingly out of our control. However, the choice for change is still yours.

Part of your learned education from previous experiences or mistakes, require assessing correctly what you have in your personality that can empower your arsenal of weaponry to force desired outcomes through demonstration to the universe of the opportunities you want to engage in. If you have the tools in your heart that match the information you have in your head to the desire you have of your soul, then you can begin to find the most powerful areas for convergence to take place. You must know your dreams are able to come true.

Mindfully, you must fully conceive and trust the idea to interface your reality. The combination of a focused mind and an impassioned heart can be so helpful in determining what we are really meant to do with our lives. With your God-given abilities to move mountains with the usage of having faith and belief, so too can having faith and belief progress your desired reality into progressive existence. You can choose to use your previous experiences as wind beneath your wings by moving beyond the limits of our past mistakes, transforming folly into wisdom, frustration into fuel, and denial into the detonator of explosive change. The failures of the past can become battle scars that toughen your hide and make you more resilient and resourceful moving forward, if you will only believe!
Jakes, T. (2007). Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits

The only thing certain about life is that it will and always does change. We’re forced to keep the change in our lives whether we want to or not, realizing that the best of situations can turn on a dime and become the worst crisis we’ve faced. So many of life’s hardships derive their power from the unexpected timing of the punch that catches us off guard. Although all of us face these rails, it seems that some people have a secret edge that enables them to withstand the vicissitudes of life. Basically, these people simply manage the challenges of life better than others through consistent belief and faith that their dreams can STILL become their reality. Staying focused toward their dream regardless of life’s obstacles is a symbolic reference to their faith and belief. Thus, they are thereby able to expend their energies on winning their obtainable goal rather than merely enduring the disarray life will bring into existence, threatening to detonate their careful plans with the shrapnel of the unexpected. How are you handling your dreams?

The Fairness In Freedom

“All citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.” Voltaire

Two hundred and thirty-three years ago a small band of valiant men & women began a long struggle for freedom. They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, not only to found a nation, but to forge an ideal of freedom; not only for political independence, but for personal liberty; not only to eliminate foreign rule, but to establish the rule of justice in the affairs of men. That struggle was a turning point in our history. Today in far corners of distant continents, the ideals of those stated American patriots to explore and shape the American Nation into a sense of freedom; through the ‘Melting-Pot, Democracy & Equality’ hypocrisy tail still shape the struggles of men who hunger for freedom in other countries. Freedom for our American Nation as it stands in today’s society is currently described as, ‘fairness’. An American History of gaining slaves freedom has shaped itself into the mask of being able to be equated with fairness against others of a different race. Truly this would be a proud triumph for our American county to gain development & positive practice on. Yet those who founded our country knew that freedom would be secure only if each generation fought to renew it and enlarge its meaning.

From the Minutemen at Concord to the soldiers in Vietnam, to our current war on Iraq; each generation has been equal to that trust. This trust is embedded in the assurance that the United States Government will reform this nation into a true demonstration of a ‘Melting Pot, Democracy & Equality’ truth. Americans of every race and color have died in battle to protect the ideology of freedom. Americans of every race and color have worked to build a nation of widening opportunities. Now our generation of Americans has been called on to continue the unending search for justice within our own borders. We believe that all men are created equal, yet many are denied equal treatment. Fairness is now our illusionist view of freedom. We believe that all men have certain unalienable rights. Yet many Americans do not enjoy those rights. We believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. Yet millions are being deprived of the blessings with held in liberty to pursue your dreams. Unfortunately, it’s not because of their own personal failures, but only because of the color of their skin. The reasons are deeply imbedded in our American history and the American tradition encouraged through the nature of a American man’s greed.

The purpose of the American law is simple. It does not restrict the freedom of any American so long as he respects the rights of others. It does not give special treatment to any citizen. It does say that those who are equal before god shall also be equal in places that provide service to the public. We do not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. Its purpose is not to punish. Its purpose is not to divide but to end divisions. Its purpose is national, not regional. Its purpose is to promote a more abiding commitment to freedom, a more constant pursuit of justice and a deeper respect for human dignity. No single act of Congress can by itself eliminate, discrimination and prejudice, hatred and injustice. But an act of Congress can go further to invest the rights of man with the protection of law than any legislation in this entire century. Because first, it provides a code carefully designed to test and enforce the right of every American to go to school, for every American to get a job, for every American to vote and to pursue his life unhampered by the barriers of racial discrimination. Second, it educates all Americans to the responsibility to give equal treatment to their fellow citizens. Third, it enlists one of the most powerful moral forces of American society on the side of civil rights; which is the moral obligation to respect and obey the law of the land. Fourth, and perhaps the most important, this act is a renewal and a reinforcement, a symbol and a strengthening of that abiding commitment to man’s dignity and man’s equality, which always has been the guiding purpose of the American Nation. This law is the product, not of any man or group of men, but of a broad national consensus that every person is entitled to justice, to equality, and to a chance to enjoy the blessings of liberty.

The Civil Rights Act is a challenge to men of good will to transform the commands of our law into the customs of our land. It is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our states, in our communities, in our homes, and most of all, in the depths of our hearts, to eliminate the final strongholds of intolerance and hatred. It is a challenge to reach beyond the content of the bill, to conquer the barriers of poor education, poverty, squalid housing; which are legacies of past injustice and impediments to future advance. It sets goals to improve the lives of all underprivileged Americans. Fulfillment of rights and prevention of disorder go hand in hand. Resort to violence blocks the path to racial justice. We must maintain law and order among our own citizens. Those who would hold back progress toward equality and, at the same time, promise racial peace, are deluding themselves and the people. Orderly progress and exact enforcement of law is the only path towards an end of racial strife.
Johnson, L. (1964) My Hope For America.