She Can She Do 21: What Dreams May Come . . .

I can catch myself daydreaming my future out loud. And that's not a problem. But if I don't watch it, daydreaming out loud is all that I could end up doing. It's powerful to say your dreams so that you can hear them. It gives them a chance to become so real to you that you are willing to change your life in order to make them a reality.

Here's the problem: What if all we do is talk? We talk about how good we could be at it; the new car we will buy with the money we make from it; the places we will go because of it; the people we will meet doing it; how we are the best and no one else's talent can compare to us when we do it; the awards that we should receive because we are awesome at it; and on and on. If we spend more time talking about it and less time doing it, then we are just "groupies of our craft" and not leaders of the pack.

There are all types of jobs we can have, work we can do, problems we can solve. We just have to find the ones that speak to our spirits, and then get to work. In fact, in all labor there is profit, but idle talk leads only to poverty (Pr 14:23). So my advice is to work more and talk less. And since every kind of work produces some kind of increase, then it's good to get to work diva, but remember, she who plants and she who waters are equal (one in aim, of the same importance and esteem) yet each shall receive her own reward (1Cor 3:8) Your work will determine your reward. A writer's labor gets a writer's favor.

-MizJAI-