A new year has begun. A new opportunity awaits you. The past is gone, and the present is all we have. In this moment, we have the chance to begin again: to create something new, to dream a new dream, or to do something we’ve never done before. We have the great opportunity to build the life we’ve always imagined. So, in this new year, will you start creating your dream, or will you continue building it? Or will you let another opportunity slip by to make your dreams come true? Now is the perfect time to start building your dreams and creating the life you’ve always envisioned!
The celebrations are over. New Year’s Eve has passed. We celebrated with our families and friends, welcoming the new year with hope and enthusiasm. We began the year filled with emotions, optimism, new dreams, goals, and desires. During the first few weeks, we feel motivated and full of enthusiasm, believing that this will be the year we accomplish all the things we’ve always wanted to.
We live through the first month of the new year with happiness, passion, and hope, filled with faith. But as time passes, the beautiful emotions we had on New Year’s Eve—the hopes, dreams, and optimism—begin to fade. We find ourselves slipping back into the routines of daily life, and day by day, our dreams return to the drawer of oblivion. A few months later, all those wonderful feelings are replaced with stress, despair, tiredness, and frustration.
“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” – Alexander Graham Bell
Then, as the year ends, we start dreaming again, believing the new year will bring us everything we’ve longed for. Once again, those emotions reappear, filling our hearts with hope and putting us in the most wonderful state of mind. But I wonder: is this roller-coaster-like existence really the meaning of life? Is it our destiny? As the unstoppable dreamer that I am, I must say no. Life is something we create—through our thoughts, actions, and the attitudes we choose day by day.
We should not wait any longer to start building our dreams. Life moves quickly, and if we aren’t careful, we may end up building someone else’s dream, calling it “our job” and protecting it more than our own dreams. The truth is that the system was designed to make it almost impossible to live outside of it. We’ve become so dependent on it that we often deny our own dreams because we feel the need to serve this system just to survive. But the good news is that we can find ways to depend less on it and gain more freedom—by finding the time to build our own dreams.
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell
There are 24 hours a day, 168 hours a week, and around 730 hours in a month. This means we always have time to do at least one thing each day that pushes us closer to our dreams. Start by identifying your dreams and goals, then break them down into steps you can take throughout the year to turn them into reality. How do you increase the chances of making that happen? By doing more of what moves you closer to your dreams and less of what doesn’t serve you. For example, watching less television, wasting less time, spending less money on things you don’t need, and so on. Remember, those who created the lives they imagined had the same time as you. It’s all about priorities. Use any spare time to build your dreams, no matter how busy you are or how much work you have.
Do little, do much, but never stop doing. Use the time God has given you in your favor, not against you. The key is to start now—wherever you are, with whatever you have. Start building your dreams before you end up spending your whole life building someone else’s. Go out and create the life you dream of!
