STOP DAYDREAMING....i think

Studies have shown that people daydream often at work, in fact studies have shown that people actually work better when they take time to just daydream a little.  Time to allow their minds to drift off to another land, another place and time.  Usually, unless you are a sociopath or psychopath, it is about something healthy that excites us.  A mental motion picture, starring you at your very best whatever that may look like to you.


The issue becomes when we live s much in a fantasy and hold on to it so tightly that we no longer appreciate the reality that surrounds us each day.  The last breakthrough conference call (which happens every other Thursday, the next one is May 29th, topic: Stop Living a Victim Lifestyle"), the breakthrough community talked about disappointments and how disappointments rob us of an authentic life.  One of the points that I offered was that sometimes we hold on to a fantasy so tightly that there is no room for God to enter our reality and change it.  Sometimes we become so intently focused on what our lives used to be, should be, or could be that we miss God creating our life into what it needs to be.  The need is what we don't see because those changes usually never have to do with a paycheck, a new car or house, or a exciting social calendar.  But all of those things are actually the result of the most important change; which is the internal.


The internal has the map to get all of those things but the map does not always take us in the direction we would like instead it takes us through hills, valleys, mud slides, and landfills.  The internal map does not always take you through a beautiful garden, a wonderful waterfall, or a glorious sun rise. But it does give you the strength  to appreciate those things even more even when we are standing in a mudslide and feeling utterly frustrated because life seems to have left us.


I saw the movie Walter Mitty which is one of my favorite, and the character Walter Mitty spent so much time living in a fantasy that he missed important moments of his life...until he decided to make life exactly what he wanted it to be.  He stopped waiting for permission to do so and he just did it.


So today give yourself permission to walk out of your fantasy and start living the life you want.  Your internal ma is waiting to take you on a journey but it can't take you there if you stop every time you hit a landfill and life begins to stink.


Keep going, let go of that fantasy, and let God into your reality.