Dream It!

Dream as far as you can see, and when you get there, you can see further - ZIG ZIGLAR

Dream what? Dream what you want to be, know, realise, or do. Imagine the life you wish to live. That's the beginning point of manifestation. Create the life you want to live in your mental vision and give it feelings. Constantly relive this picture in your quiet moment until you become suffused with it.

The famous inventor Thomas Edison dreamed of an electricity-powered lamp. Thousands of failed experiments were not enough to deter him from producing the incandescent lamp we all use today. The Wright Brothers saw, in their mental vision, a heavier-than-air machine flying through space. The airplane is the physical manifestation of that dream. The Italian, Marconi, dreamed of a way of sending messages through the air without wires. If you have a radio or TV set, you're witness also that that dream had come true.

A dream (or vision) is a mental picture of a desired future state that is considered better that the present.

It is important that you clearly specify, in black and white, what end the fulfillment of this dream will confer on you, all the others concerned, and the society. This is known as the mission or purpose. Your mission gives clarity and direction to your vision.

If you’re a corporate body, your mission or purpose is the reason your organisation exists – what it is set up to achieve or do for others. A mission defines the role of the organisation and gives it self-identity. Usually the mission incorporates the strategy for reaching the vision.

An example of a corporate vision and mission are those of Fate Foundation, a Nigerian NGO;

Vision: “Our vision is to promote the growth and establishment of over 1,000 businesses by 2005 and 5,000 businesses by 2015. This will result in the creation of employment for at least 50,000 Nigerians by 2015.”

Mission: “Our mission is to foster wealth creation by promoting business and entrepreneurial development amongst Nigerian youth.”

The objectives of your organization are the outcomes it wants to achieve for its publics in specific areas in line with the approaches it want employ to realise its mission.


People with different missions can see the same vision. Alternatively stated, two individuals who have the same vision might translate it differently for themselves. Your value system determines your mission or purpose. A vision can be for the totality of your life or for one department of it, say career, financial, family/relationships or spiritual.

The things you set out to accomplish in a given day, being part of your overall vision, constitute your dream for that day. Two people might engage in the same activities in a day (vision) but might have different values motivating them (mission).

For example, one of them might purpose to make it easier for the next person in all the things he has to do for that day. The other might postulate that he was going to manipulate anyone who comes in contact with him into doing his bidding. The two missions are different.

This brings us to the core of this subject. Behind every vision is a dominating value or motivation. Let your purpose be as high as possible. One way of doing this is to stipulate that it will be for the good of all.

This world came into existence as a result of God's dream. You can create your world through creative dreaming. Whether you like it or not, we’re all dreaming our lives. Mostly we do it unconsciously. Whatever you’re experiencing is the result of your dominating thoughts and feelings. The point now is to do it deliberately and constantly.

If you want to do anything intensely enough, retire to a quiet place, and see in your mind's eye the fulfillment of that intention. Put feelings into the picture. Dream it. All life is a dream.

Keep your dream alive!