6 Healthy Foods to Feed Your Hungry Dreams
You’ve got dreams and goals that are restless. They’re always hungry. They wake you up in the middle of the night looking for a snack and they demand big meals during the day.
They may always seem like they’re saying; “me, me, me” but they’re not selfish. These dreams just want you to help them grow so that in return they can help you.
You’re the caregiver of your dreams so it’s up to you to feed them healthy food and meals. However, perhaps you feel like you aren’t providing that well enough. So to help you, here are six healthy foods to feed your hungry dreams.
1. A story
Nothing nourishes your dreams like feeding your mind and senses. Even if all you have is five minutes you can read, watch, and listen to a story that will inspire and motivate you even longer than the time you spent listening, reading, or watching.
Some great places to start are at Good News Now – a news site dedicated to only positive news, GivesMeHope – a site that shares life stories that ignite hope, and even on Youtube. Here are three excellent videos from Youtube worth bookmarking:
- Moments
- Famous Failures
- A Story Of A Sign
2. Frustration and failure
It might taste bitter to you and your dreams but frustration and failure contain essential vitamins and nutrients that will strengthen, motivate, and create perseverance.
3. A worthwhile purpose
Just like you, your dreams need purpose to live. And not just any purpose; a noble purpose, an authentic purpose, a worthwhile purpose.
Purposes that are rooted in earning as much money as possible or in garnering fame cannot sustain a dream for long.
Dreams need purposes such as to help others, whether they be strangers or your loved ones, or to leave a legacy.
4. Criticism
Criticism is just as bitter as frustration and failure, and because of this you’ll want to shield your dreams from it.
You and your dreams need to instead feed off of criticism. Sometimes critics have decent advice worth noting, and other times they spew out criticism that is so infuriating that you want to keep moving and working harder to “show them.”
Give your dreams a little bit of the criticism to chew on once and awhile. If they really don’t like it, they can always spit it out.
5. Time
Every single day, even if it’s just for 10 minutes, work on your dream. Don’t let yourself get distracted or let “life” get in the way.
You can’t neglect your dreams, because they will quickly die and begin to haunt you.
6. Success
You’ll often feed success to your dreams in different sizes. Sometimes it’ll be a meal, sometimes a giant banquet, and most often it’ll be a little snack. Even though it’s a little treat, it will energize you and your dreams so don’t overlook it.
Have any other “meals” or “foods” that you feed to your hungry dreams? Please share your “recipes” below.
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Great insights as always Andrew! Especially pointing out that time is essential..good things often just take some time…no way around it
Thank you Christian!
It seems like great things take a long time to happen. Maybe it happens for a reason; to weed out those you aren’t truly committed and reward the success to the person who is.
Talk to you later,
-Andrew
It is incredible that you tapped into my life. I just wrote a post about a women who very negatively affected me by a comment she left on my website http://www.isdisnormal.com/2009/11/16/critiquing-writing/.
I have been living by your words for a year now, being positive and listening to my loved ones critique my book have kept me going.
Also, reading JR Moehringer’s, The Tender Bar, helped me to take my manuscript out of the trash and begin again.
Thank you for your concise and positively well written post.
BTW: followed you here from Twitter.
Hi Jillian,
I just read your post and what that commenter said was a shame and tough to read. I totally know how you feel, I’ve gotten my fair share of nasty comments. People have even called me names.
I wouldn’t let that comment get to you in a negative way. I think you should use it to push your forward and make a career out of your writing a reality.
Thanks for sharing your story. Please keep in touch. I followed you back on Twitter.
-Andrew
I always try to get a picture of something that I am trying to achieve and put it up on my wall at work as a constant reminder! It works great for me!
That’s great Alexanne! You need to stay focused on a goal to keep you going.
-Andrew
#2 seems to be a regular part of my diet of late. It doesn’t consume but it does get me up and motivated. Super Post!:)
That’s so great to hear Ms. Freeman! You certainly don’t want your failures and frustrations to consume you, you need to use them to your benefit.
Glad you enjoyed the post.
-Andrew
I love your texts,they’re totally amazing!
I always hope to read them! Congratulations!
Thank you!
-Andrew
Hey! Was googling ‘Just do It’ when I came upon your wonderful blog. And have been passing the link on to people I thought would like it. I love the food metaphors n ideas in your write-ups – they make me wanna write! I absolutely loved the ‘getting off your ass’ article. And appreciate that you take the pains to comment to everyone individually, like you would in real life!
Hi Priyanka,
Thanks so much for stopping by and reading out different articles. I’m glad you’re enjoying them. The “getting off your ass” article was one of my favorites too!
Thanks so much for the compliments.
-Andrew