Dare to dream, dream to dare...

We all possess the capacity to dream. If any laudable feat is achieved by anyone it is because they are able to dream and pursue that dream. This God-given power in us is manifested through our creative work. When we lose the capacity to dream, we in fact subvert our ability to be creative. Those who dare to dream and dream big achieve success in their life. Our dreams and the realisation of those dreams bring about not only success but also unleash a wave of changes both in our life and in the life of others.

There are very many opportunities in the field of education, information technology, fashion designing, music, civil aviation, defence etc. where one can excel. All that one needs to do is to seize the opportunities that come one’s way. In order to turn the available opportunity into golden possibility, one must let go off the caterpillar and pass through the surge of transformation to emerge as the butterfly. There is an untouched and unleashed creative energy in each one of us that has the power to change the world and our destiny. And so all what we need to do is to overcome the barriers that hold us back from pursuing our dreams and endeavour for its realisation.

Wilma Rudolph was a disaster from birth. She was a tiny premature baby who caught pneumonia, then scarlet fever, and finally polio. The polio left one leg badly crippled, with her foot twisted inward. Until the age of eleven, Wilma hobbled around on metal braces. Then she asked her sister to keep watch while she practised walking without the braces. She kept this up everyday, afraid that her parents might discover what she was doing and she might be forced to stop. Eventually, feeling guilty she told her doctor, who was flabbergasted. However he gave her permission to continue, but only for short periods of time.

Wilma worked away at it until she eventually threw away her crutches for good. She progressed to running, and by the time she was sixteen she won a bronze medal in a relay race in the Melbourne Olympics. Four years later, in the Rome Olympics, she became the first woman in history to win three gold medals in track and field events. When she returned to U.S.A. she was honoured with the Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. A person who dared to dream to beat all the odds!

In every human person there is tremendous potential. To make our presence felt in this world, we need to work on our dreams vigorously and passionately. The death of imagination is the death of the soul. The power to create something new exists in each one of us. As Ralph Waldo Emerson rightly says, ‘What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us’.

Dare to dream, dream to dare, and see how the world transforms through your creative power.