Dreams of the future

Although the topic is quite vague for a debate I take up this challenge. I am Con so I should be speaking about the future having no dreams. "I believe that there is a natural design in nature. This would explain the demise of the dinosaur." That makes clear you are a person who believes in destiny of life. Someone who believes everything that happens in life is written way before and there is nothing we can do about it. This is very absurd. You would cause an accident due to your carelessness, kill somebody and then blame your destiny for it!!!! Paulo Coelho truly said "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.". Your fear of future makes your dreams impossible to achieve. I worry that we live in a culture today where growing numbers of people look outside themselves for success. And when they fail, it"s always someone else"s fault. But the government, your parents, your education, and your job aren't the key to your success you are. "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." :Frank Tyger All of us, me included have a hundred different reasons and excuses to justify why we haven't realized our full potential. The reality though is that nothing absolutely nothing is going to change the past. Yet irrespective of one's age, social status, financial status, academic background, past history and the like, there is a wonderful future that each of us can embrace wholeheartedly if we are prepared to boldly accept the challenge and work purposefully towards it least bothering about the dreams future have for us. We should remember the lessons of the past without holding on to the past. We fail to progress beyond our past performance simply because we live with ghost of past failures, keep brooding over the wasted opportunities that we never took advantage of and often meander into some of those rare moments of triumphs and successes we did relish occasionally. While we certainly cannot erase the past completely, we must learn to identify the key learning and keep that uppermost in mind as we proceed further so as to avoid the same pitfalls of the past. You should believe in yourself and yet be pragmatic about your strengths and weakness. Each one of us has it within us the ability to stretch ourselves to excel. Excellence is ensuring that we use our abilities to the fullest extend and must not be mistaken to mean always out performing others. It is obvious then that we need to asses ourselves dispassionately and leverage our strengths without letting our weaknesses become a stumbling block. It would also entail us having the courage of conviction to take calculated risks, the daring to fail and yet not give up and to pursue our dreams with steely resolve and self confidence. As rightly said it is our attitude that determines our altitude. You should always have a goal to focus on. What really lets us down is an indiscipline approach to the future. The prime reason for this is lack of clarity as to where we want to go and what we want to achieve. Perhaps we would be a lot happier if we could simply identify our personal, professional, financial and spiritual goals. Perhaps we have a hazy idea of our goals, but then we are tempted to change the goal posts in the hope of scoring at will. Goals helps us concentrate, enable us to channelize the resources required and helps us chart our progress and if need be take the corrective measures to ensure that we make the best of our future. It is sarcastically observed that if we do not know our destination any road will lead us there. You should be ready to adapt, change, improve, transform yourself to ensure that you are progressing towards your goal. Simply put this means that one has to make umpteen sacrifices if one were to make the best of the future ahead. Look what happened to the dinosaurs of old who became extinct simply because they could not adapt, change, improve or transform themselves to meet the onslaught of change. While we make not suffer such an ignominy, it is very possible that the future we face by being rigid and uncompromising can be painful, frustrating and very regrettable. Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. As Denis Waitley rightly said: "Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."