Like many of us, Kyle Luetters is chasing a dream. What do those words mean?
What does it mean to chase a dream?
Not a simple dream. Not a regular, every night vision that appears on the big screen in your mind.
I’m talking about big dream. An audacious dream.
A calling.
Something that fills the heart and soul.
Something that causes you to look to the future with your head held high and triumphant movie hero music playing in your mind.
What does it mean to chase that? More so, what does it require?
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Chasing this dream is not easy, nor does it happen by accident.
Chasing a dream requires vision. We must look out onto the horizon to see the destination. Where is the end? Is there an end? Is the path laid or must it be blazed? What will the end result look like? Vision enables us to plan and set the way.
Chasing a dream demands courage. Whether it is the first step or continuing on in the midst of the journey, courage is the fuel that allows us to do these things. It gives us the strength to face the obstacles laid before us.
Chasing a dream will take hard work. In some cases, gut wrenching work. The type of work that lasts all day and into the night. Work that never seems to end but you don’t mind it because you understand where it leads.
Chasing a dream requires a network of people. Some people will help. Some will guide. Some do both. In the end, they matter. The advice, wisdom and understanding of others will help you along the way.
Chasing a dream means enduring adversity. The rains will come. The hills will turn into mountains. The naysayers will get louder. What do you do? Stay the course. If you believe deeply in what you want to do, then staying the course is the only way. After all, many people quit right before the break through.
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If you can make it through the journey of ups and downs, the peaks and valleys, the obstacles and triumphs, then you have made it. In that moment, you will realize that dreams don’t happen by accident. They aren’t the result of some random set of circumstances.
Dreams are made. Piece by piece. They are assembled through the trials and tribulations. Through mistakes and successes they are forged. The journey is the glue that holds together this epic tale of success.
Attaining this is not easy.
Some have the courage to try it.
Fewer have the guts to withstand the fight.
If you can make it through, the view is spectacular.
The feeling achievement is like no other.
You are respected and looked up to.
Most importantly of all, you know what it means to chase a dream.
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