THE DREAM DIED.

Many years ago you perhaps had a different life plan from what you’re currently living in. Many of us today are living lives different from what we wished for, longed for or dreamt of. Many of us today have lost our power, control and dominion in life to that desperate need for money and the need to make ends meet. In a bid to make a living, we sacrificed our true lives, in a desperate move to pay bills we mortgaged our real destinies.

Many people today are in the work fields of the world’s system. They are in the service of an ordered pattern of life giving their time, talent, energy and abilities to build and maintain world structures and frameworks based on current socioeconomic dictates and demands.

Many of us know if we have the power, the means and the choice, we wouldn’t be working where we are working, doing what we are doing or living the life we are living.

We have accepted and yielded to what life handed us, not what we sincerely want in this life. We’ve subjugated our real potentials and ambitions for easier and less risky means to survival; that is why we’re stressed, we are not ourselves.

Being stressed has less to do with activities but type of activities. Are you naturally built and designed for what you do and where you’re doing it? Working very hard at what you love is passion, working extra hard at what you’re compelled to, is stress. One makes you very successful the other kills you slowly but surely.

Dear friend, what happened to your dream? How and when did you lose it? Who and what took it away from you? Do you want it back? Really, do you?
If today you’re so stressed, dissatisfied with what you do, discouraged by what you earn but desperately holding on just to pay bills and remain socially relevant, I’m afraid you’re perhaps in the gleaning plantation of the world’s work system. You’re truly not living out your own destiny, your life has adopted the pattern of the world’s system. Nursery, primary, secondary, university, NYSC, marry, work, train children, retire, pension then die. What kind of life is that?

What happened to your dream, where is your brain child, where is your own contribution to this world and humanity at large, where did you miss it, when did you let it go? I’ll tell you.

The only reason you’re perhaps not living the life you planned much earlier in your life is your loss of conviction. Conviction is that strong belief that powerfully governs your decisions so much so, you’re willing to die for it.                                                                                                         

Your conviction serves as an inward compass that eventually delivers to you your dream destination. If today you know what you do is not what you’re designed or born to do, if your life today is patterned after chasing money and survival only, if you’re not fulfilled, satisfied, impressed or excited about what you do for a living, if you have a great dream you’ve parked somewhere or given up on, Find following seven reasons why you lost your conviction in life and consequently gave up on your dreams:

1. Meditation – The moment you stopped meditating on your dreams, it began to lose its power. Meditation is a creative force that attracts into your life, the people and resources and opportunities you need to actualize any dream. Meditation is thinking of something nonstop. For example, there is no such thing as love at first sight, every person you desperately fell in love with was a consequence of positive meditating on him or her daily. Meditation has powers to make your dreams and expectations come true. Meditation is a powerful law of nature that converts virtual realities into actual and physical realities.
2. Exposure – your dream died when you stopped exposing yourself regularly to people, places, things and occasions that should keep it alive. What you see and hear daily determines what and how you think. Exposure fuels meditation, meditation powers dreams into reality.
3.  Association – Your dream died when you perhaps withdrew from the company of people with similar dreams. Birds of the same feather they say, flock together. A bat will lose its ability to fly if it stays too long in the company of rats. Looking alike, being siblings or relatives or classmates or friends does not translate to sharing the same dream, as an eagle if you hang out with crows, you’ll start flying low.
4.  Loss in value – Your dream died when you turned your back on it to consider something different, even if you planned it to be for a while. When alienated and estranged from a situation, condition or circumstance, your appreciation or value for it begins to wane. For example, when a lover relocates far away from you, no matter how you miss him or her initially, after a while, you become used to the absence. When you fail in the place of regular romance with your dreams and continuous association with similar dream carriers, your passion and value for the dream will begin to wane and you’ll begin to grow new interest with your new environment and new distractions.
5. Making time – Time is the only valuable God-given resource you can exchange for anything you want in this life. If you don’t exchange time for anything in this life, you eventually lose it. Your dream perhaps died when you excluded it from your daily, weekly or monthly schedules. As soon as you stopped exchanging time for it, you began to lose it.
6. Unclear motives – When a dream becomes too distant and other activities take priority over it, you’ll subsequently forget your real motives for wanting that dream.  When for instance, you spend more time with platonic friends and your lover is hardly around, you’ll subsequently start wondering why that lover was so special and why you were so in love with him or her. The core of the dream dies, when other factors distract you.
7. Accountability – Your dream died because you perhaps didn’t have a mentor to inspire, motivate and encourage you to keep keeping on. Every dream has its own attended challenges. When there’s no coach or mentor to spur you on, you’ll become discouraged, frustrated and you may eventually give up.

Dear friend, these seven factors perhaps accounted for the death of your dreams and your gradual decline into a less glowing and fulfilling life. But guess what, it’s not too late. There is hope. Decide today to free your life from suppression, depression and mediocrity and savor that experience of living the life of your dreams through deliberate resurrection of that dream. Consider the factors that killed your dream and reverse them, and I assure you much quicker than you think, your dream will come back to life and you’ll become free from an inferior and hard life. Don’t live a life of stress, life a life of passion, you only life once, live well and happy. At the end of your days, make sure you’re satisfied with how you lived and confidently smile to your grave.