Mari Broman's "The Column"

Where do you put your dreams?

Several years ago I was a Salesperson for a decorating company, and the company offered many wonderful incentives. I remember looking through the newest incentive catalog and seeing a particular diamond ring, that was certainly the prettiest and largest I had ever seen. I looked at the amount of certificates that would be required to earn it. I attempted to total what it would take to earn this ring. Just what amount of sales would it take for the total amount of certificates and thought hmmmm!!!!

Then I figured out step by step how many sales appointments and the average amount each one would have to meet, then how many of those I would need, then how many in a week would be needed, and how many in a year, etc. All the way down to when would I start working at making this dream a reality. Thirteen months later and many thousands of dollars in sales, (the smallest item cost .50cents, the largest $46.00) I had earned enough certificates, and I went to the seminar to collect my ring. No one was more surprised, amazed, joyous, excited, (you name the feeling) than myself.

Sometimes we just may need to set out step-by-step planning our dream, plotting it, breaking it down into mini-steps, making it manageable, putting it on our list of possibilities. Maybe the only thing holding us back from our dream is us. As we seriously plan and plot what needs to happen, we are already closer to accomplishing that dream. We have already made progress. We are putting possibility thinking in our lives, rather than negativity thinking. We are removing roadblocks, and stumbling blocks, as we are plowing through the obstacles. We are putting our dreams into action. For most of us we know Rome wasn't built in a day, but for me that day along with many other days put together took a Mountain and made it into a Diamond instead.