What Do You Think About It?
A Collection Of Daily Thoughts
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Why Our Dreams Don’t Take Flight” I’m a dreamer; I always have and always will dream. You might say that I’m an expert dreamer. Since I was a kid I dreamed of being movie stars and action heroes. Even though some of my dreams have never come true, it has never stopped me from experiencing the joys of dreaming. On the other hand some of my dreams have come true and some of those that didn’t come true came pretty close. So if I dream for the moon and fall short I’ll still be among the stars. Most of us never see our dreams come true or come close. Instead of soaring through the clouds, our dreams languish like a broken-down airplane confined to its hangar. So let’s try to identify common reasons why dreams don’t take flight. We are discouraged from dreaming by others We have to pilot our own dreams; we cannot entrust them to anyone else. People who aren’t following their own dreams resent us pursuing ours. Such people feel inadequate when we succeed, so they try to drag us down. Remember what I’ve always said; whoever has your ear has your future. . When surrounded by the turbulence of criticism, we have to grasp the controls tightly to keep from being knocked off course. We are discouraged by past disappointments and hurts Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality, and all of us have encountered that gap. Failure is a necessary and natural part of life, but if we’re going to attain our dreams, then, we have to summon the courage to deal with past hurts. Again, something I’ve said in the past; forget the experience but remember the lesson. It’s the lessons that make us strong. We fall into the habit of settling for average Average is the norm for a reason. Being exceptional demands extra effort, sustained inspiration, and uncommon discipline. When we attempt to give flight to our dreams, we have to overcome the weight of opposition. Like gravity, life’s circumstances constantly pull on our dreams, tugging us down to mediocrity. So shoot for the moon and see what happens. We’re robbed of the confidence needed to pursue our dreams Dreams are fragile. They will be attacked and assaulted from all sides. As such, they must be supplied with the extra strength of self-confidence. It’s inside all of us. We just need to be like the little train that kept saying “I know I can, I know I can”. We lack the Imagination to dream Hey, dreaming isn’t just for kids. For thousands of years, we traveled along the ground: by foot and by horse-and-buggy. Thanks to the dreams of Henry Ford, eventually we were traveling by automobile. Thanks to the dreams of Orville and Wilbur Wright, we now hop across oceans in a matter of hours. They both overcame ridicule and doubt and the world has never been the same. In summary I thing sometimes we except what life passes out because we don’t allow ourselves to dream. We trap ourselves in reality and never dare to go beyond what we can see with our eyes. Imagination lifts us beyond average by giving us a vision of life that surpasses what we are experiencing currently. Dreams infuse our spirit with energy and push us on to greatness. I’m dreaming right now. I’m dreaming of being a published author some day and its gives me joy. Don’t let anyone or anything steal your joy...
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A Collection of Daily Thoughts
The word thought generally refers to any mental or intellectual activity involving an individual's subjective consciousness. It can refer either to the act of thinking or the resulting ideas or arrangement of ideas. Over the past few years I've put my thoughts down on paper and shared them with family and friends. Some said to me "it’s too long", some said to me "I’ve heard that before" and some just said nothing as if my thoughts were delivered and fallen into a black hole. On the other hand there were those who cheered me on and encouraged me to keep distributing my thoughts and consider some day writing a book. "What Do You Think About It" is a labor of love collection of my best 31weekly thoughts for your reading enjoyment. In addition, you can take an active part in my literary endeavor by writing down your thoughts at the end of each chapter. One difference between humans and other animals is our ability to think, process our thoughts and make life changing decisions on the results. As you read and hopefully enjoy my book apply your thoughts to the message intended in each chapter. It's not really our efforts that define us; it's our ability to open our minds and hearts to the depths of our true thoughts and honest feelings. Paracelsus, renaissance period physician, chemist, and surgeon wrote; thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rest the freedom of a man and they tower above the light of nature . . . create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new art flows.
This book represents a small piece of my heaven, my new firmament, my new source of energy from which my new art will flow. I hope you enjoy all my thoughts but I don't expect you will just sail away on a literary cruise navigated by everything I've written. So I've provided space at the end of each chapter for your thoughts on each topic. Hence the title, "What Do You Think About It" ...Bon Voyage
About the Author
Warren Monroe currently works in human resources for an international textile company. He is also owner and operator of a marketing franchise, Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing. Over the past thirty-three years, he has served as regional director of human resources, training and development manager and also assisted in HR troubleshooting and facility start-ups in Japan, Mexico, and Vietnam. The middle son of five children born to Alexander and Eunice Monroe, he grew up with good Christian values and work ethics. He attended JC Price High School during the ’60s and received his bachelor of science degree from Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam era, he credits the marine corps and the lessons he learned during those years for starting his life in the right direction. In the early ’90s, after becoming fed up by the violence and troubled direction of youth during that time, he got involved in mentoring. He was the first mentor for a pilot mentoring program called Mentor at the Gate. He later founded Boys Til’ Men, a mentoring organization that got boys involved in athletic activities while, at the same time, introduced them to Christ. It is his firm belief that mentoring did as much or more for him as it did for the boys. His community services and awards included the following: Board of Director for Communities in Schools Cochairman, Red Cross, Union County President, Union County Personnel Association Founder/President, Boys Til’ Men mentoring organization Board of Director, Habitat for Humanity Board of Director, United Way of the Piedmont Board of Director, Union County Development AME Zion–Licensed Exhorter South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice Volunteer of the Year National Good Neighbor for Community Excellence Award