If you want to achieve success, you must aim high and work towards your goals. You must not let failure get in your way or discourage you, but instead be mindful of the opportunities that come up while you are on your journey. If you do nothing, these opportunities will not come your way. If you put something out, it will come back.

To demonstrate what I mean consider the story about two brothers who decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to watch. "What are you doing?" asked one of the visitors.

"We plan to dig a hole all the way through the earth!" one of the brothers volunteered excitedly. "All You Need Is A Dream"

The older boys began to laugh, telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was impossible. After a long silence, one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and a wide assortment of insects. He removed the lid and showed the wonderful contents to the scoffing visitors. Then he said quietly and confidently, "Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look what we found along the way!"

Sure, the goal of the younger brothers was far too ambitious, but the goal helped them start digging. And once they started digging, they discovered a lot of wonderful things along the way. We can all take a lesson from the brothers. While not all of our goals will be achieved; nor every job end successfully; nor every relationship be strong; nor every hope come to pass; nor every love last; nor every dream be realized; we can all take heart in the fact that we will certainly find many great things along the way all because we tried to do something positive - because we had a dream.

What is your dream? Don't give up on it.

Until next time...