What If Your Dreams Take Longer Than You Thought? You might be thinking to yourself “how is this in any way encouraging”?! But stick with me for a minute. I think it’s important that we take a step back sometimes and really determine if we’re setting ourselves up for failure or setting ourselves up for success with our expectations. I’m all about vision and looking to the future and using that to craft your “today”. We just talked about this, as a matter of fact.
But there’s another piece to this that I think is important to really own. We kind of live in an “instant” world. We’re used to having everything at our fingertips. At the drop of a hat, delivered in a day (or even an hour!). In that “instant world” we’re bombarded with ads showing us how we can follow this program and be a millionaire tomorrow. Take this pill and lose 30 pounds in a day. And on and on. And on. What this really creates is a lottery mentality. So it’s really important to remember that this journey you’re on is a marathon not a sprint. And as long as you remember that it will help you to NOT QUIT.
And here’s the encouraging part for you today. It really doesn’t matter if it takes a long time. It doesn’t matter if it takes longer than you thought. Because, as long as you don’t quit, as long as you continue to take one step and the next and the next - what will happen is the day will arrive when all of your efforts and resilience and persistence and faith will pay off. You’ll be standing there with happiness, excitement, pride and wonder. And amazingly enough you may even think to yourself “you know what? That didn’t take as long as I thought”. Think about that today when life is a challenge, or you’re doubting yourself, or it just seems to be taking too long. You’ll get there, I promise. You just need to keep going.