moving forward as we work towards the dream. His

Part of a dream’s power is that it takes us to a different place from the one we are currently in. Whatever the struggles of our life – trying to find work, to pay bills, to achieve qualifications, to have a family – the big idea lifts us beyond them. Not for good, but for long enough that we can glimpse what a better future may look like. It

This is so much more than an idea. It is a power source, like plugging yourself into the mains when you have been running for all this time on half-empty batteries. When you have a dream in your life, you never need to question why you are doing something or if it is worthwhile. You already know – it is taking you one step closer to the thing you

The paradox of our dreams is that the thing we most want in life is often the thing we are most afraid of doing. So often, we take one of the most miraculous human abilities – the capacity to imagine what the future could be – and we use it against ourselves. We imagine this beautiful future and then we deny ourselves the chance to pursue it. We

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

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.

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

But with lots of people, something miraculous happens. Their eyes come alive. They stand a little taller and tell me about the brand they want to launch and the culture they want it to celebrate, about their plans to travel the world, to launch a photography business, a coffee shop with a purpose, a drop-in service for people in crisis. Often, I

I believe the word ‘dream’ is one of the most powerful in our language.