Category: Dream

Good Hours

To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

  This quote reminds me of the commercial for Direct T.V. that was airing a couple of years ago about the man who attended a motivational conference and left feeling good about himself and because he felt good about himself he went to Vegas in hopes of feeling better and while in Vegas he lost…

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Fact…

…”The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”  ~Robert H. Schuller The problem is we often stop running after our dream when a few things don’t go our way.  Who knows, maybe God has a better plan for your dream… P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com A couple of keys:  Write the dream down…

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Folly and Straight Course

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”  ~Mark Twain Through my consulting practice I am blessed to spend a significant amount of time with dreamers.  Most entrepreneurs are dreamers.  They have the ability to picture something that not everyone is able to see.  The difficult part of being a dreamer is…

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One Life

“There is just one life for each of us:  our own.”  ~Euripides Whose life are you living? P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Psalm 139:14, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”  (NIV)

Shouldn’ts to Shoulds

“Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.”  ~Mary Kay Ash What things have you been conned into thinking you “shouldn’t be able to do?” A vision with a plan in line with your priorities has helped many people overcome “the shouldn’ts,”…

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More Creativity*

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”  ~Erich Fromm I received this email from my friend Clark Miller, in response to my blog yesterday and wanted to share it with you: Creativity, I am convinced, takes many forms.  For some, it is what we typically classify as art: painting, sculpture, pottery.  But some…

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The Road

When you are on the road taking you to your dream(s), it is important to make stops along the way and look back.  When you look back, what do you see, lives enhanced or lives stunted?  If you are enhancing lives then you are living the dream, if you are stunting lives then your dream has become someone…

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Get a Wind by Making a Plan*

“To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.”  ~Seneca …nuff said. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Habakkuk 2:2, “And the Lord answered me:  ‘Write the vision; make it plain on tablet, so he may run who reads it.”

Vision to Reality is Simple*

Louis Nizer once said, “A man’s life is colored by the dye of his imagination.” Being somewhat of a visionary myself I understand there is a delicate balance between vision, which is intended to take us beyond what we know, and reality which is what we know. The key to any successful vision is execution. …

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