Sometimes we look through life and find all we ever did was dream.
There is a day in life that is more beautiful than the day you find your biggest dreams; it is the day when you find yourself holding some of those dreams in your hands.
You realize that you are a causer of life, and not just a wisher!
Are You a Causer of Life, or You Are Just a Wisher?
When your dreams become a reality, your reality becomes a dream.
Sadly, that’s a miracle moment that comes to a few.
That’s because most people who want that moment wait for it to happen rather than go out to make it happen…
Cinderella’s rise from a cinder maid to a palace queen cannot be told without mention of the fairy godmother.
Cinderella is the dreamer, the fairy godmother is the doer.
Cinderella is a Wisher, fairy godmother is the Causer.
Every wish needs a cause.
But if you are waiting for someone to come and change your life for you – someone like Santa Claus or Cinderella’s fairy godmother – then I’m sorry Santa’s chariot broke down a long time ago, that’s why nobody has ever seen him around lately (Or have you?).
Besides, even if Santa shows up, he is too fat to fit down the chimney…
As for fairy godmothers, well… if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Life has no fairy godmothers because we are not fairies.
You are not a fairy in a tale, if you wait for a fairy godmother to appear, you will wait forever.
The story of your life will change the day you choose to be the holder of the pen that writes it.
If you choose to stand up and make your dreams happen, then congratulations! You would have just become the fairy godmother you have long waited for!
The fairy godmother of your life can appear today; if you choose to be one!
– MOFFAT MACHINGURA
What you dream in your sleep you must wake up and do.
Every day we sleep and wake up; that’s because life is a combination of dreaming and doing, wishing and working.
But one of the saddest news of life is that it is full of dreamers that never do and doers that never dream.
Everyone has had a dream at one time or another. But most people haven’t lived their dreams.
Ask them why and they will tell you “dreams don’t work.” Well, you know what… they are right… Only that’s half the truth!
The whole truth is: Dreams don’t work for people; it is people who work for their dreams.
As inspiration is useless without a writer, so are dreams useless without a body willing to work them.
All the people you meet in life fall into these three categories, they are:
- Dreamers who don’t Do
- Doers who don’t Dream
- And those who both Dream and Do
Which one are you?
Dreamers-that-Never-Do live an average life because this is what most people are.
Then Doers-that-Don’t-Dream live an abused life! This is because whatever they did, they were only acting on other people’s dreams.
Yet those who both Dream and Do shall forever be the success stories of our lives, thus because they understood the meaning of the sleep-wake circadian rhythm of life – sleeping is for dreaming and waking is for working.
Life will be measured, not by the nights that you slept but by the works that you left. Wake up and work your dreams!
If you have dreams and your life remains the same, it is because you are still hiding your fairy godmother. You are still hiding that part of you that makes things happen.
Yet remember, just as both Cinderella and the fairy godmother came out of your grandma’s single soul as she told the story, so from your single soul too there can come out a fairy godmother.
There is a Causer of Dreams trapped in your soul. Unleash the Causer and your life will start to happen.
In life, there is a law called “The Law of Cause and Effect.” It is so important that it has been termed the Iron Law of the Universe.
It says “There cannot be an Effect without a Cause.”
In other words – there cannot be movement without force.
There cannot be a building without a builder.
There cannot be smoke without fire.
There cannot be pregnancy without fertilization.
For every effect, there is a cause.
Everything has a because! In other words, a cause that made it be.
So if you want your life to change for the good, be the force that makes it good.
It’s not merely what you want that changes your life, it is what you do.
The secret of success is breaking down an idea, no matter how complicated it may seem, into step-by-step actions that can be performed daily.
When your ideas create your habits, then your dreams will begin to come true.
You are the Causer of your dreams!
All these years you have been waiting for a fairy godmother not knowing the fairy godmother was you.
It’s possible to live a beggar’s life. To spend all your lifetime sitting by the wayside, asking alms of pity and compassion from those who have worked themselves out of their own problems.
Unfortunately, your heart has no pity – it will keep asking you this deep life question with unending echoes, “Really, is this all that your life has to offer???”
Then after a while, the heart rephrases the question, “So do you really mean this is all that you were born for?” “But how are others doing it?”
The heart keeps pestering you like that because it knows you have what it takes to build the life of your dreams!
It wants you to stop being a wishing force and start being a causing force.
The moment you decide that will mark a tremendous change in your life.
That’s because life can never remain the same for a person who has chosen to change.
You have spent too much time and ink filling in the Wish List, now it’s time to turn your Wish List into a To-Do list. Turn your wishes into actions.
It’s enough figuring out what you want; now start figuring out what to do to get to what you want.
For the seeds of greatness trapped in you to be unleashed into an evergreen forest in your generation; for your life to change – know that the will for change alone is not enough.
You must also be willing to be the cause of the change you want to see. Decide to be the cause of the effect.
Be the fairy godmother of your life!
Too Young or Too Old?
Do you know that the television idea first visited its inventor at fourteen (14) years old?
Yes, his name was Philo Farnsworth, at fourteen the idea of the television visited his mind; he made a sketch of it and spent his lifetime making it a reality.
Without him, there would be no television today.
Then Windsurfing was invented by a twelve (12) year old. Peter Chilvers was that age in 1958 when he placed a sail on his surfboard.
The idea proved popular such that people, both young and old, have been windsurfing that way ever since.
The bubble gum that would make a multibillion-dollar business today was a product invented by someone in their mid-teen years.
Horatio, son of Thomas Adams, found that the Mexican Chicle his father had bought to make rubber could be turned into something chewable. He made two hundred balls that all sold for a penny by mid-afternoon.
Do you remember Popsicles – those similar to ice lollies and ice cream (check them on the internet)? Definitely, you do, everyone knows popsicles! What they don’t know is they were invented by an eleven (11) year old called Frank Epperson.
The Mechanical calculator was invented by a nineteen (19) year old called Blaise Pascal.
The Braille reading system for the blind – you know it was invented by Louis Braille right, but what you don’t know is he was only fifteen (15) when he invented it.
Even the Telephone was invented by an eighteen (18) year old called Alexander Graham Bell.
The old wish they were younger, and the young wish they were older.
So what is age? Age is a number that can be used for anything, especially excuses.
Here is the famous Pablo’s list of people who achieved something at any age you might excuse yourself for.
You Were Ready As Soon As You Were Born
1. Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2. Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3. Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4. Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5. Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6. Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7. Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8. Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9. Elvis [Presley, King of Rock] was a superstar by age 19.
10. John Lennon was 20 years old and Paul McCartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961. [This singing career led John to a net worth of 800 million and Paul with 1.2 billion]
11. Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12. Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13. Isaac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14. Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-minute mile record
15. Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16. Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the Tour de France
17. Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28
18. Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world
19. J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter
20. Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21. Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind
22. Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23. Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.”
24. Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics
25. The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first successful airplane and made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26. Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
27. Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28. Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, and 49 years old when he wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
29. Christopher Columbus was 41 when he became the first European to discover the Americas. (Funny enough, in his journal he notes that he already found Africans in America way before he had known the continent even exists).
30. Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
31. John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32. Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33. Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote “The Hunger Games”
34. Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.
35. Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36. Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37. Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
38. Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote “The Cat in the Hat”.
39. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
40. Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
41. J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
42. Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
43. Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
44. Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”― PABLO
Every age is suitable for achievement. No matter what age you are, you can make history in it.
Whatever you tell yourself you can achieve by a certain age, there are many of that age failing to achieve it and countless who have achieved it earlier.
The problem with being young is that you have a body but you do not have a mind, and when you are old you have a mind to do great things but you don’t have a body to do it with.
That is why I say if a small idea drops into the mind of a youth, use it for it is a big privilege. And if a little strength still runs through the veins of your old age, use it for it is a big privilege.
Age or strength on their own mean nothing, it is what you do with these life’s little privileges that makes the big difference.
A baby kicking in its mother’s womb must decide either to be born or be forever in the womb. If it admits to being born, then it will be born and start to grow.
If it refuses to be born it will start to die.
As growth comes only to those who are born, so does skill come only to those who have begun.
Age itself doesn’t make you ready for a task, it is experience that makes you ready.
When measuring the wisdom to fulfill your dreams, don’t measure yourself from the day you were born, measure your wisdom from the day you started following your dreams.
We don’t start living the day we were born. We start living the day we decide to take our heart’s desires seriously and begin walking towards them.
This is why there are so many young ones who are wise and many old ones who are fools – it is because some were born long back but only began living yesterday; and though some were born yesterday they have started living ever since!
Young or old, every age has its weaknesses, but one weakness cannot hinder all your potential.
However old you are, you are at the right age to get started! Just get started.
Be the Doer!
Be the Causer!
Be the fairy godmother of your life!
Don’t live like a snowman, frozen and fixed to a single spot all your lifetime; melt up, be a stream and flow away.
Every day you produce cold thoughts that freeze your life to the same imperfect place, or you create warm thoughts that thaw you and let you flow into other possibilities.
Let’s complete this chapter in the next post, where I share five serious reasons why people remain stuck at the same place in life like Snowmen.
I will show you how to thaw up and flow away into your sea of fulfilled dreams.
Lets get there…
