Sometimes no one is going to believe in an idea but you. Sometimes no one is going to believe in you except you. That’s the point at which the person without a dream quits, and the one who has it steels themselves to carry on. Because while you still have belief, you will never give up. That is the beauty of having a dream in your life. It not only

I just believe in it. Five words that sum up the power of a dream and the gift it gives you: a rock-solid core of belief. When you are doing something for a reason, and when you truly believe in that purpose, then there is almost nothing you will allow to stop you. You will keep trying, keep negotiating, keep experimenting and enduring failure to g

A dream should curtail your overconfidence at the same time as quelling your fears. Because it never goes away, you can rely on it to ensure you keep moving forward, however long and rambling the route.

a dream is engineered for the long term and built for survival. It’s often your destiny. It’s meant to be and you will fight to achieve it unless the system stops you. You can have a bad month, even a bad year, without giving up. You can switch paths and change careers and still be working to achieve it. No one is going to sit you down for an annua

That is what a dream is capable of – it enables you not just to survive adversity but to grow through it. If you can hold onto your dream as you experience all of life’s setbacks, then it and you become stronger as a result. Because the dream is still intact, you are still here, and if those things aren’t going to stop you then perhaps nothing will

A dream may give you a destination to aim for, but quickly you find yourself wondering how you are going to get there. You realise that, however confident you are, it is going to be hard. That is why you need to start with a dream rather than a plan, a goal, an objective or a hope. Because getting things done in life is difficult, you need the righ

Wherever you are in life, a dream gives you a place to start because it provides you with a target to aim for. It harnesses that great human skill of predicting the future, not against us but for us. It allows us to imagine, permits us to hope and enables us to believe. What better starting point could there possibly be than that?

A dream’s capacity to change our perception of reality, even briefly, is one of its most important features. Because it is open to anyone. You don’t need money, a job, qualifications, or even a roof over your head. Dreams are democratic and they are universal. Indeed they are even more important to people who have little, or nothing, than to those

Knowing where you want to finish is also an invitation to make a beginning.