“Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness,” Bill McCartney.  What a perfect follow up to our discussion on tiptoeing.  It is human nature to dream big—we feel the calling to do something with our lives that we can’t always identify at first.  It’s a thought that creates a feeling, a drive for us.  But there is more to it than merely thinking of big things: we need to bring those dreams/visions to life.  We can’t realize big dreams if we don’t dive fully into our lives.  Big dreams inspire action, and all action has an impact on the energy around us—it makes waves.  When we have an idea we start to feel a surge of creative energy inside of us and that energy needs to be expressed.  If we merely walk through life standing on our toes, we lose the full effect of what we can be because we minimize our impact.  This world is designed for us to create, to funnel our energy into creation.  It isn’t meant for us to stand on the sidelines hoping and wishing for something to happen.  In the pursuit of big dreams we may find ourselves guided toward something else, another big dream, or even just refining the dream we have.  It is the thought of something bigger that inspires us to take action.

As we discussed yesterday, we need the confidence to take action and assurance in our step.  We can’t develop our confidence if we aren’t using the full weight of our being.  No, things don’t always turn out how we expect them to, but as we learn to trust our abilities, we learn to adapt and refine the dream and we learn to apply those lessons to that dream.  So many things in this world have begun with the question of “what if” or “wouldn’t it be cool if” or even, “I think this would make it easier.”  Truthfully we never know how wide-ranging our ideas may have an impact—but if we don’t act on them or if we continue to act with restraint, we will never see the full impact regardless.  We need to trust that if we have an idea, we are meant to see it to fruition.  All of this is to say that we aren’t meant to shy away from the things that inspire us because that may inspire others as well. Simply sharing our action and our story may inspire people to go after their own idea/story as well.  The universe loves action and creation.  We aren’t meant to simply be cogs in this machine—a machine that, to be totally fair, was an invention as well.  As I’ve said before, if we created that machine, we can re-create it as well.

Creation is the alchemy of an idea, passion, faith, and action.  But all of that requires us to respond to that call with curiosity and follow through.  We should never ignore what our own heart/soul is telling us.  We should never take a half-hearted swing at what could create an entirely new trajectory for our lives.  We need to go for it.  The universe may not give us all the exact grand design of the dreams that we envision in our brains, but it will allow us to realize what we are capable of.  It will grant us the confidence to create more and to dream more.  I will add a caveat to this as well: we must not confuse greatness with popularity.  Some of the greatest ideas may not be the most popular or far-reaching, but just because they don’t have a world-wide reach doesn’t mean they aren’t great.  They were great to be realized for those who needed it.  We get to define greatness.  Anything that makes us happy and fulfilled, anything that puts us in the zone of creativity and purpose is great.  No one need bear witness to that to make it worthy/valid. We need to define that worth for ourselves.  So go after the dream that creates greatness in our lives and make it as grand as we want.  Let it take over and see how great it can be.