Chronologically, with the passing of every second, our physical bodies grow older. But I have good news – no matter what is happening without, you can grow young within.
This will happen if you are:
1) Willing To Never Cease Learning
2) Willing To Reach Beyond Your Current Capacity
3) Willing To Dream Big Dreams
4) Willing To Never Retire, But Rather Re-fire
So let’s take a closer look at these four areas that will keep you growing younger, no matter how old you are.
One definition given for the word discretion is this: free will – the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies.
This speaks to me of freedom: the ability to act or judge on one’s own. The ability to make wise choices or decisions, and the freedom to make one’s own judgments.
I learnt this as a teenager when many of my so-called friends took up the habit of smoking. I also learnt it when these same individuals decided to use illicit drugs, engage in immorality, and choose to follow whatever the crowd was endorsing at the time. I chose another path.
However, to my utmost surprise, I then stumbled across the same pressure and resistance in religious circles, where restrictions were placed upon all from exploring certain truths found within God’s word. These were the ones, because of tradition, that they wanted to overlook or dust under the carpet. And at that time I had the choice of either satisfying the status quo, or following my heartfelt convictions. Once again I chose another path.
But what liberty comes with being true to oneself. And what persecution accompanies it at times. But what exhilaration rises within your chest as you know because you know that to be true to yourself operates on a much higher plane than that which is imposed by the masses.
‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.’ Napoleon Hill
If you want to live your dream life, you must learn to dream.
As a child we have no problem dreaming. Our imagination runs wild and we don’t ever consider that what we dream will never come to pass. However, throughout our years at school, and as we move on and into adulthood, many of us have lost the art of dreaming.
I am currently privileged to live on acreage that overlooks the bush, the hills, and an abundance of wildlife. I often take myself out from the busyness of my household and simply sit under the shade of my mango tree, and listen to the birdsong and imagine.
There is something serene and divine about immersing yourself in nature, and in being still. Simply by allowing your mind to move away from the daily demands of the day, you are positioning yourself to imagine.
I was talking to my best friend last night and began asking them some deep questions.
The first question I asked was, ‘What do you think you have been called to do in your lifetime?’ Finding it hard to answer this, there was a deafening silence that pervaded the atmosphere.
I then asked, ‘For what purpose have you been born for?’ Again no answer, accompanied by a puzzled facial expression.
I was determined to help them to unveil the answers to these tough questions, so I continued with, ‘What gets you mad? What gets you fired up?’ Once again they were unable to verbalize their true feelings.
So with a final ditch I asked the question that clinched the deal. ‘What would you do if you had twelve million dollars?’
To live with a dream
Still buried within
Is to deny the world
Of what could have been.
To die with a dream
Still buried within
Is to die with unspent riches
That should have been.
So whether you live or whether you die
Spend building your dream and don’t deny.
For in so doing
We’ll not be left wondering
About…
What could have, or should have been.
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