While in college, I remember reading, The Magic of Thinking BIG, by David J. Schwartz. That was a time when I not only dreamed big and thought I could be both rich and famous, but I acted as if my life depended on it. Then I graduated and got a job.

That “big” stuff seemed to go down hill from there. I was in a corporate job by then, and immersed in the reality of the workaday world. Soon the fact began setting in that I didn’t have a brilliant idea to catapult me to fame and fortune. And in those days, we didn’t have the lottery.

It wasn’t that I became a negative person or one without hope; I just began to see things more “realistically.” When I would hear someone say, “Live your dreams,” or “you too can have the life you want,” or “YES, you are the master of your magical destiny,” I would think “yeah right, you’re just trying to sell books and tapes - that’s for people who don’t know any better.” (more…)