Bits of Wisdom Podcast #33

The adventure of a lifetime begins the day you decide to chase your dreams.Sometimes the hardest things to hear are the dreams calling us because they are often only whispers. They never shout. If we listen to our dreams they will infuse life with adventure and help us tell a grand story. If we ignore the whispers of our dreams, the same whispers become nagging regrets. To live out our dreams and achieve something great, we need a roadmap to point us toward success. It doesn't have to be a fully developed plan. We only need to see enough to be able to take the first step, and then the next. Each step forward is the only one that matters.Along the way, there will be detours and missteps. We will fall and we will fail, but we find small successes in getting back up. At the end of our course, we’ll look back at the story we’ve told, and even if we did not achieve the dreams that called us, we can still celebrate. The roadmap, step-by-step, becomes the journey, and the journey becomes the reward.If you're not a success, you have not overcome enough adversity. You may just need one more step or one more stand. The only failure in life is choosing to stay down when we’ve fallen, because if we fail to chase our dreams, they eventually end up chasing us, in a haunting regretful sort of way.Be a Dream Chaser.If you enjoyed this writing, you may like my book, All My Best - Wisdom and Encouragement for a Better Life, available on Amazon.Terry Weaver is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit terryweaver.substack.com/subscribe