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Always so much chatter about which path, what way, who is right or wrong. We all want to know the answer to how we bring our dreams to life. How do we make our dreams come true, and how do we make them real?

For the Sidewalker they aren't possible. Dreams don't come true. They only exist in the mind.
For the Slowlaner they are possible. They're possible in another 40 years or so at retirement.
For the Fastlaner they are possible. They're possible in 2 to 10 years from now, they hope.

There's one thing all have in common.
Whether they believe their dreams are possible, or aren't, that belief starts in the mind.

We create these pictures. Pictures of what we believe is life, or is possible. Pictures of how shitty things are, or how awesome they are. Just lots of pictures about every little thing.

It's easy to picture the life we imagine we'd have if we had all the money we could imagine.

The fancy house, the nice cars, the perfect location, etc.

Whatever that life is, we can see it as it exists.

We can literally shut our eyes and see the snowcapped mountains through the panoramic window of our gorgeous living room. We can hear the snow crunch beneath our feet and feel the chill morning air against our cheeks and nose as we take our cat out for a walk. We can smell the aroma of expensive coffee wafting through the air, waiting to be poured into our favorite Star Wars mug. And if we try really hard, we can even taste it.

Sorry, that's a bit of my dream. Maybe yours looks and feels a little different. The point is still the same.

I don't know how many of you have taken the time to carefully craft your dream.

It doesn't really matter.

But I wonder how many of you actually believe that dream is possible? How many of you actually believe you can reach your goals and have those things you took the time to imagine? And I also wonder how many of you know they already exist?

Because life is a whole lot different than it looks at the surface.
Up here we see the gentle waves, and the occasional splash.
We see the sun reflecting off the water, and we believe that's all there is.
Just water.

But what's beneath the surface?
What's hidden under that dark wavy vale?

How do we know there are fish, and snails and crabs?
How do we know there are plants, and rocks, and sticks?
How do we know what exists beyond what our eyes can see and how do we know our dreams don't already exist too?

Maybe it's a tough pill to swallow, but I wonder how many have considered the fact that your dreams already exist because you can see them in your mind. What is real? All experience is "real". And whatever you can experience is real.

We know the world around us is real. We know our computer is real. We can see it, touch it, smell, taste, and hear it. And we say, "This computer must be real". And if this is true, is it not also true that what we can sense must be real? What we experience must be real?

But it's a little different with dreams, isn't it?

Maybe you can experience them in your mind.
But when you open your eyes they're gone, and therefore are not real.

But this begs the question...
Are your eyes really open, and how do you really know?

When I think about my goals - the places I want to go, the things I want to see and do - in all actuality these are all experiences. They're all things I want to experience in life. And when I think about this, then I know my dreams are real, because I've already experienced them in my mind.

But I want to experience them all the time, not just in my mind.
So somehow I have to bridge the gap between what is real in the mind and what is real in "reality".

So I start with a question of what is real at all?

Experience is real. What we can experience is real. My dream is real.

So if my dream is real, and if my dream exists...and if all experience is created by the mind, and it is...then the only thing which stops me from experiencing my dream in the physical reality we call real is my own limitations. The limitations I've dreamed up in my mind.

The setbacks. The challenges. The obstacles.
Would they exist for you without your mind creating them?

If so, please do explain how?

How would those things still be a problem for you if your mind did not create them?

Exactly.

Some of you have asked how I keep going in the face of failure. Some of you have experienced more failures than I. Some of you want to know how those who have failed so many times can still believe their dream is possible, and why they don't give up.

For me the answer is simple.
I keep going because my dream is real.
It's real and I know it is real, because I've experienced it.
I've seen it. I've heard it. I've touched it, tasted it, and smelled it.

And when I fail, I don't believe I've really failed.
Instead I've just marked off a path. Maybe I'll revisit it later or not.
It doesn't matter. There's more than one path to my dreams.
There's more than one way to experience freedom and I know this is
true because I've already experienced it.

So you are here.
Your dream is somewhere.
But it must not be where you are because you can't directly experience it beyond your mental picture.

So your dream is somewhere.
And between you and your dream is some make believe distance.
And all the make believe obstacles your mind has created to block you from your dream.

And if any of this is true, then isn't it also true that you can destroy those obstacles?
Isn't it true that you can close that distance?
Isn't it true that there really is nothing that can ever stop you from achieving your dream because your dream is made by you, and you control your mind, do you not?

So as long as you keep pursuing it, as long as it exists in your mind, as long as you can experience it...

Your dream is already real.

You just need to acknowledge it.

Imagine how you'll reach it.

Then go find it.

Just do it.
 
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Vji uctvedmit epf geomasit zua gedi esi puv tiqesevi gsun vji fsien, vjiz esi edvaemmz upi op vji teni.

E tvsoph ug iwipvt vjev esi qedlehif vuhivjis et upi.

Vji uctvedmi ot vji fsien.
 
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Zuas fsien ot emsiefz siem.

Zua katv piif vu edlpuxmifhi ov.

Onehopi jux zua'mm siedj ov.

Vjip hu gopf ov.

Katv fu ov.

O muwi vjot xjumi qutv tu nadj. Ov't tunivjoph vjev O jewi emxezt xjumijiesvifmz cimoiwif op. Ov't vji sietup zua giim tu nadj qeop xjip zua fup'v siedj zuas fsient... cideati ov ot tunivjoph vjev iyotvt epf zua'si giimoph vjev hsoig zua giim xjip zua muti tunivjoph zua muwi xovj emm zuas jiesv epf ov't vusp exez gsun zua.
 
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Emxezt tu nadj djevvis ecuav xjodj qevj, xjev xez, xju ot sohjv us xsuph. Xi emm xepv vu lpux vji eptxis vu jux xi csoph uas fsient vu mogi. Jux fu xi neli uas fsient duni vsai, epf jux fu xi neli vjin siem?

Gus vji Tofixemlis vjiz esip'v quttocmi. Fsient fup'v duni vsai. Vjiz upmz iyotv op vji nopf.
Gus vji Tmuxmepis vjiz esi quttocmi. Vjiz'si quttocmi op epuvjis 40 ziest us tu ev sivosinipv.
Gus vji Getvmepis vjiz esi quttocmi. Vjiz'si quttocmi op 2 vu 10 ziest gsun pux, vjiz juqi.

Vjisi't upi vjoph emm jewi op dunnup.
Xjivjis vjiz cimoiwi vjios fsient esi quttocmi, us esip'v, vjev cimoig tvesvt op vji nopf.

Xi dsievi vjiti qodvasit. Qodvasit ug xjev xi cimoiwi ot mogi, us ot quttocmi. Qodvasit ug jux tjovvz vjopht esi, us jux exituni vjiz esi. Katv muvt ug qodvasit ecuav iwisz movvmi vjoph.

Ov't ietz vu qodvasi vji mogi xi onehopi xi'f jewi og xi jef emm vji nupiz xi duamf onehopi.

Vji gepdz juati, vji podi dest, vji qisgidv mudevoup, ivd.

Xjeviwis vjev mogi ot, xi dep tii ov et ov iyotvt.

Xi dep movisemmz tjav uas izit epf tii vji tpuxdeqqif nuapveopt vjsuahj vji qepusenod xopfux ug uas hushiuat mowoph suun. Xi dep jies vji tpux dsapdj cipievj uas giiv epf giim vji djomm nuspoph eos eheoptv uas djiilt epf puti et xi veli uas dev uav gus e xeml. Xi dep tnimm vji esune ug iyqiptowi duggii xegvoph vjsuahj vji eos, xeovoph vu ci quasif opvu uas gewusovi Tves Xest nah. Epf og xi vsz siemmz jesf, xi dep iwip vetvi ov.

Tussz, vjev't e cov ug nz fsien. Nezci zuast muult epf giimt e movvmi foggisipv. Vji quopv ot tvomm vji teni.

O fup'v lpux jux nepz ug zua jewi velip vji voni vu desigammz dsegv zuas fsien.

Ov fuitp'v siemmz nevvis.

Cav O xupfis jux nepz ug zua edvaemmz cimoiwi vjev fsien ot quttocmi? Jux nepz ug zua edvaemmz cimoiwi zua dep siedj zuas huemt epf jewi vjuti vjopht zua vuul vji voni vu onehopi? Epf O emtu xupfis jux nepz ug zua lpux vjiz emsiefz iyotv?

Cideati mogi ot e xjumi muv foggisipv vjep ov muult ev vji tasgedi.
Aq jisi xi tii vji hipvmi xewit, epf vji uddetoupem tqmetj.
Xi tii vji tap sigmidvoph ugg vji xevis, epf xi cimoiwi vjev't emm vjisi ot.
Katv xevis.

Cav xjev't cipievj vji tasgedi?
Xjev't joffip apfis vjev fesl xewz wemi?

Jux fu xi lpux vjisi esi gotj, epf tpeomt epf dsect?
Jux fu xi lpux vjisi esi qmepvt, epf sudlt, epf tvodlt?
Jux fu xi lpux xjev iyotvt cizupf xjev uas izit dep tii epf jux fu xi lpux uas fsient fup'v emsiefz iyotv vuu?

Nezci ov't e vuahj qomm vu txemmux, cav O xupfis jux nepz jewi duptofisif vji gedv vjev zuas fsient emsiefz iyotv cideati zua dep tii vjin op zuas nopf. Xjev ot siem? Emm iyqisoipdi ot "siem". Epf xjeviwis zua dep iyqisoipdi ot siem.

Xi lpux vji xusmf esuapf at ot siem. Xi lpux uas dunqavis ot siem. Xi dep tii ov, vuadj ov, tnimm, vetvi, epf jies ov. Epf xi tez, "Vjot dunqavis natv ci siem". Epf og vjot ot vsai, ot ov puv emtu vsai vjev xjev xi dep tipti natv ci siem? Xjev xi iyqisoipdi natv ci siem?

Cav ov't e movvmi foggisipv xovj fsient, otp'v ov?

Nezci zua dep iyqisoipdi vjin op zuas nopf.
Cav xjip zua uqip zuas izit vjiz'si hupi, epf vjisigusi esi puv siem.

Cav vjot ciht vji raitvoup...
Esi zuas izit siemmz uqip, epf jux fu zua siemmz lpux?

Xjip O vjopl ecuav nz huemt - vji qmedit O xepv vu hu, vji vjopht O xepv vu tii epf fu - op emm edvaemovz vjiti esi emm iyqisoipdit. Vjiz'si emm vjopht O xepv vu iyqisoipdi op mogi. Epf xjip O vjopl ecuav vjot, vjip O lpux nz fsient esi siem, cideati O'wi emsiefz iyqisoipdif vjin op nz nopf.

Cav O xepv vu iyqisoipdi vjin emm vji voni, puv katv op nz nopf.
Tu tunijux O jewi vu csofhi vji heq civxiip xjev ot siem op vji nopf epf xjev ot siem op "siemovz".

Tu O tvesv xovj e raitvoup ug xjev ot siem ev emm?

Iyqisoipdi ot siem. Xjev xi dep iyqisoipdi ot siem. Nz fsien ot siem.

Tu og nz fsien ot siem, epf og nz fsien iyotvt...epf og emm iyqisoipdi ot dsievif cz vji nopf, epf ov ot...vjip vji upmz vjoph xjodj tvuqt ni gsun iyqisoipdoph nz fsien op vji qjztodem siemovz xi demm siem ot nz uxp monovevoupt. Vji monovevoupt O'wi fsienif aq op nz nopf.

Vji tivcedlt. Vji djemmiphit. Vji uctvedmit.
Xuamf vjiz iyotv gus zua xovjuav zuas nopf dsievoph vjin?

Og tu, qmieti fu iyqmeop jux?

Jux xuamf vjuti vjopht tvomm ci e qsucmin gus zua og zuas nopf fof puv dsievi vjin?

Iyedvmz.

Tuni ug zua jewi etlif jux O liiq huoph op vji gedi ug geomasi. Tuni ug zua jewi iyqisoipdif nusi geomasit vjep O. Tuni ug zua xepv vu lpux jux vjuti xju jewi geomif tu nepz vonit dep tvomm cimoiwi vjios fsien ot quttocmi, epf xjz vjiz fup'v howi aq.

Gus ni vji eptxis ot tonqmi.
O liiq huoph cideati nz fsien ot siem.
Ov't siem epf O lpux ov ot siem, cideati O'wi iyqisoipdif ov.
O'wi tiip ov. O'wi jiesf ov. O'wi vuadjif ov, vetvif ov, epf tnimmif ov.

Epf xjip O geom, O fup'v cimoiwi O'wi siemmz geomif.
Optvief O'wi katv neslif ugg e qevj. Nezci O'mm siwotov ov mevis us puv.
Ov fuitp'v nevvis. Vjisi't nusi vjep upi qevj vu nz fsient.
Vjisi't nusi vjep upi xez vu iyqisoipdi gsiifun epf O lpux vjot ot
vsai cideati O'wi emsiefz iyqisoipdif ov.

Tu zua esi jisi.
Zuas fsien ot tunixjisi.
Cav ov natv puv ci xjisi zua esi cideati zua dep'v fosidvmz iyqisoipdi ov cizupf zuas nipvem qodvasi.

Tu zuas fsien ot tunixjisi.
Epf civxiip zua epf zuas fsien ot tuni neli cimoiwi fotvepdi.
Epf emm vji neli cimoiwi uctvedmit zuas nopf jet dsievif vu cmudl zua gsun zuas fsien.

Epf og epz ug vjot ot vsai, vjip otp'v ov emtu vsai vjev zua dep fitvsuz vjuti uctvedmit?
Otp'v ov vsai vjev zua dep dmuti vjev fotvepdi?
Otp'v ov vsai vjev vjisi siemmz ot puvjoph vjev dep iwis tvuq zua gsun edjoiwoph zuas fsien cideati zuas fsien ot nefi cz zua, epf zua dupvsum zuas nopf, fu zua puv?

Tu et muph et zua liiq qastaoph ov, et muph et ov iyotvt op zuas nopf, et muph et zua dep iyqisoipdi ov...

Zuas fsien ot emsiefz siem.

Zua katv piif vu edlpuxmifhi ov.

Onehopi jux zua'mm siedj ov.

Vjip hu gopf ov.

Katv fu ov.

O muwif siefoph zuas qutvt. Zua esi e cov tqediz gus ni cav O moli ov.

O vjoplt ovt onqusvepv vu onehopi vji gavasi zua xepv vu jewi. Moli og zua xepv vu ci ep iphopiis opehopi zuastimg tovvoph ev e vecmi vemloph ecuav vji qmep epf xsovoph demdamevoph ivd. Tiioph zuastimg fu xjev a xepv vu fu.

Cav uctittowimz tiioph zuastimg tovvoph op e Mencu.. Nohjv ci civvis vu uckidvowimz epemzti epf qmep vji gavasi, cideati og a esi tu uctittif xovj vji ipf huem a xomm ci jesf qsittif opvu neloph fidotoupt raodlmz apfisnopoph vji quxis ug zuas cseopt ugvip sitamvoph op geomasi.
 
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