EUPHORIC STRETCH

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo.

We all have experienced the euphoria of a dream come true. That intense, inexplicable, feeling of sheer pleasure, that comes from the actualization of a desire.  Seeing it take tangible shape from the intangible world of thought and imagination. A castle in the air some would call it. A place many of us have gotten to and stayed. Time goes by and we still talk about it as if it happened yesterday only to realize that alas! It’s been ten years since. You have been stuck in that moment which has now become a monument. So how do we keep in this state constantly? I am glad you asked.

Dreams, desires, wishes, goals, you name it, are part of our lives (or supposed to be) whether we are conscious of them or not. We live for them. We even on occasions postpone living in the now for the then. We say things like ‘I shall be happy when …., I shall do that when …., etc. and when D day finally comes, we glory in it and many times fail to move on. The problem is not the fulfillment of the dream or goal. The problem is in failing to move on to something even more exciting. The dream becomes the ceiling instead of the foundation.

After a while, the thing we lived for is no longer as exciting anymore. We wonder why. It is because when we hit our target, we did not move the bar higher. We gloried in the accomplished task and did not stretch to another level. Celebration cannot last forever. The tide will soon ebb and the music will dull and finally stop. The antidote for this is to constantly desire higher. Raise the bar and do not limit yourself. Acquire a new zeal and become unstoppable in your quest for more, bigger, better.

Set goals and dreams that are out of this world. The kinds that make people say you are out of your mind. And yes, with such dreams, you need to be out of your mind to see their reality. Your mind is a limitation. Do not consult with it. See yourself as limitless and you will begin to attract resources that will take you to places of constant euphoria.

At Kyusa, we encourage our Change Agents to dream big and think out of the box.  If you must eat a toad, go for the juiciest of all!