{"id":344,"date":"2013-02-02T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/?p=344"},"modified":"2016-10-08T23:42:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T03:42:38","slug":"in-pursuit-of-your-most-passionate-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chistell.com\/africanamericanfiction\/in-pursuit-of-your-most-passionate-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of Your Most Passionate Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denise Turney<\/p>\n

Become aware of a dream you have deep inside your being and you might be tempted to think that the road to achieving your dream will be an easy one. The illusion could be so intense until you disregard the hard challenges and ongoing struggles, some lasting for years, that other people faced as they pursued their dreams. For example, while reading autobiographies and biographies about courageous people like Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, John Johnson, Mary Kay Ash and Harland David Sanders, you might focus solely or heavily on the triumphs in their lives.<\/p>\n

Dream Fulfillment May Not be Easy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do this and you might convince yourself that other people who fulfilled their dreams had it easy, were gifted with miraculous journeys that other folks don’t get to experience. However, if you look closer at many courageous people’s lives, you may find that this simply is not the case. Not only do courageous people, folks who do what it takes to fulfill their most passionate dreams, bury their loved ones and meet the responsibilities of caring for their children, they also experience financial challenges, have to find time to take care of their personal health and seek out creative ways to keep moving forward during changing and hard social and economic conditions.<\/p>\n

Their lives are anything but easy. It’s a reason many consider them to be heroines and heroes.<\/p>\n

As you continue to pursue your dreams, consider letting go of the idea that achieving your dream will be easy. Consider letting go of the idea that your journey to the success you want will be smooth. As Raymond Clarke, a man determined to make it on the professional track and field circuit discovered, It might not be. In fact, your physical journey might hold experiences, surprises, you are yet to know anything about. You might celebrate some of these experiences and curse others.<\/p>\n

Pursuing Comfort Might Keep You from Fulfilling Your Dream<\/strong><\/p>\n

What you may not want to do, especially if you have conviction about your dream, is quit. Additionally, as you pursue your dream, you might not feel as if the journey was easy until your dream completely manifest itself, and even then, you’ll likely be starting another life journey. It’s a reason the goal for constant comfort and the process of achieving a dream may not marry well. The pursuit of constant comfort could find you seeking rest more than labor, lack of change more than change and routine instead of unexpected events.<\/p>\n

However, it’s the unexpected, the non-routine and focused effort that, step-by-step (sometimes these steps feel frustrating and way too hard), lead to the fulfillment of dreams. As Raymond Clarke does in Love Pour Over Me<\/b><\/a>, if you really want to fulfill your dreams . . . keep going.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading my blog. To learn what happens to Raymond, Brenda and the other characters in <\/i>Love Pour Over Me<\/i><\/a>, hop over to Amazon.com, B&N.com, <\/i>Ebookit.com<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>and get your copy of Love Pour Over Me<\/span> today. And again I say \u2013 Thank You! Consider Love<\/span>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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