Share It: the smaller the better

It is easy to tell the toiler how best he can carry his pack. But no one can rate a burden’s weight until it has been on his back. ­– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

So you have a vision and you have all the desire you may need to fulfill it. Your heart is burning with the passion that the work entails and you are sure that you will bring it to pass. The moment you take the first step you suddenly realize that your dream is bigger, much bigger than you thought. Painfully, though it is difficult for you to admit, you dream is bigger than you. For the first time, since the initial thought flashed through your mind, failure seems real and you now contemplate abandoning ship.

This trend is very real in the lives of most achievers. At one time or the other they have considered themselves incapable of achieving the very things they ended up achieving. If it is then reality that success driven people encounter such obstacle how then do you overcome it?

It begins with the way you consider your dream. Most big dreams are bigger than the person that dreams them – that is why they are called big in the first place. What you need to do is to make it smaller. Every dream can be broken down into smaller parts that will be easier to achieve at the time being. Once you have been able to break your big dream into achievable bits, pick them one at a time and accomplish. This way, it becomes easier to achieve and fun too.

Another simple way is to share your burden with like minds. When you carry the load alone it eventually becomes too heavy but when you look for like minds to share it with, they will encourage you when you are weary and tired. Accept the proverb that notes, “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another,” and share your dream-burden with people that can energize it and help bring it to life. You need people that will not let you sleep on it, folks that will own your dream as though it were theirs.

To insist that your dream must come to pass as a whole part and without the help of other people is to assign the seal of death to it.