Hopes and dreams

Not knowing isn't just a spiritual thing. 

There is a real concrete reason to be glad I don't know a lot of things.

Not knowing isn't quite the same thing as being unrealistic, but it does leave room for hope.

I started writing this post thinking about not knowing, but it occurs to me that if not knowing frees me to hope, then I need to think about what I'm going to hope for.

If there is power in hoping, in visualizing, in focusing my energy on something, then I want to be very clear what that is.

I don't want to waste it on something like, I need ten dollars by tomorrow.

And maybe I don't want to risk it on some preposterously far away dream like, I want to be a movie star.

So, I think I'll break it down to basics.  What is the next step I wish I could succeed at that will help me achieve my dream or next goal?

Now I can visualize myself doing that.  

I imagine myself waking up in the morning and feeling ?????  I see myself getting out of bed and doing ?????  Then I ?????

Now instead of focusing on how I feel I think I"m going to focus on that.