Iron Butterfly - © Kenn Christensen, Photographer
 
 
We all have to start somewhere. Think about it.
What do you love to do? What are you good at?
What is something you would like to do for the rest of your life?
These are important and serious questions,
because when you find that interest,
that goal that excites you like nothing else,
you'll want to open your bedroom window
and yell it to anyone with ears:
Guess what I'm going to do with my life!

A feeling will envelop you and you'll treat that goal
like it is the most important thing in the world,
acting the same passionate way I used to act about baseball.
No matter who asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up,
I told them I was going to play baseball
and I was going to play for the Yankees.
I was so confident in my abilities and so consumed with my dream
that I wanted to shout out my intentions.

If you don't set goals, you're not going to have dreams, either.
The goals are the achievements along the way to get you to your dreams.
Dreams don't just happen, and you're not going to make
your pursuit easier by being lazy about it.
The longer you wait to decide what you want to do,
the more time you're wasting.
It's up to you to want to do something so badly
that your passion shows in your actions.
Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.
 
 
Derek Jeter with Jack Curry
Excerpted from
Achieving Your Dreams