“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Fredrick Douglas

The Struggle with Dreams

Reflecting on moments that have shaped his life, actor Ethan Hawke recently reflected on how what he calls courageous expression promoted his own healing and connection with others. 

"There is no path till you walk it," he says.

And, walking that path isn’t always easy. While dreaming is often easy, few have connected the always accompanying difficulty that always occurs when the dream of a lifetime progress toward realization.

“Now that I can see the possibility of my dream coming true, I’m afraid,” Christina anxiously said during a recent phone call.

The anxiety piggybacking on her voice was unmistakable. It carried an emotional plea for validation. She was seeking confirmation that the decision she was in the process of making was the right thing to do. She was weighing many factors, all of which would be shifting her situation away from the comfortable.

Part of that comfort was the held familiarity of her dreamt of future; something that would happen someday, but not today. She wasn’t ready to let go of that companionship. It had become an essential part of her thoughts and stimulus to keep moving forward. What would she do without it? This fear, common to all may be labeled, “Dream Challenge.”

Dream Challenge is your personal aspiration asking you if you really want it. If you’re willing to cross the last hurdle to usher in its realization. It’s something Fredrick Douglas understood well.

He said, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

Advancement means moving forward. Which also means walking on new ground, with unfamiliarity. And, many people answer their dream’s last question of desire with hurdle acquiescence. They don’t even try to move past the familiar. They see the hurdle as repulsive, rather than a door through which to progress. And, at this point you may be asking, “what was Christina’s response?”

She and Alexander, her husband, answered with a great leap! And, to their delight they found that the seeming hurdle, at first appearing to be gargantuan, was nothing more than a twig across the path toward their future. It crumbled as soon as it was challenged by their commitment. It was as if the doorway forward had been magically opened.

“Realization of our dream seems to be divinely appointed,” she said today.

"There is no path till you walk it," Ethan Hawke says. And, Christina heartily agrees, while looking forward to more personal courageous expression promoting her own healing and connection with others, and the divine.

Are you acting courageously while dreaming?

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