Commitment: the act of binding yourself,
intellectually or emotionally, to a definite course of action.

What are you doing with your Life: would you say you are
living your dream; or are you living from hand to mouth, making the best of
things, just getting to the next week – what we might call: existing rather than living?

If you are living
your dream, then well done: you are truly on the road to success. If you are
not living your dream – or even if you have no dream at present – then do not
despair because this little book was written for you.
We are going to help you to find your dream, develop it and then to actually
achieve it! 

To live a truly successful life, you do need to first have a
dream. As Carl Sandburg, American historian, poet and novelist put it,
“nothing happens unless first a dream”.

If you think about it, nothing at all that now exists within
our experience of physical reality did not first exist in the mind of the
person who made it or brought it into being. In all cases, everything is
created twice: the physical creation follows the mental creation. 

To succeed, you must
have a dream, or you may prefer to call it a vision – and you must completely
commit yourself to its ultimate fulfilment – that is the essence of the mental
creation. 

Here is one of the real secrets of success: you should dream
big dreams, because you can have anything
you want! Read that statement again and let it really sink in because it is
true that you can have anything you want; you can be anything you want to be;
and you can do anything you want to do. This may at first seem self-indulgent,
but remember, your deepest desires were implanted by God.

What does it mean: to commit yourself to your dream? To illustrate, let me tell you a
little about the story of Charles Lindbergh. You know, of course who he was –
he was the first person to fly the Atlantic solo – nonstop all the way to
Paris. An incredible feat which he eventually accomplished in May 1927.

He used to dream of flying the Atlantic during his long-haul
flights delivering mail. Once he had imagined the possibility of being the
first person to do this, he completely committed himself to its achievement
overcoming all kinds of set-backs. He did not allow the negative opinions of
the doubters who surrounded him to influence his resolve.

When he was unable to purchase the single aircraft in
existence that he calculated would be capable of making that momentous journey,
he had his own airplane designed and built. He didn’t have the money, but he
got a group of St Louis businessmen to sponsor him – that’s why the plane was
called The Spirit of St Louis – now
that’s commitment!

Once you have your dream. you too need to demonstrate that
kind of resolve – and let me tell you plainly – you are capable of it!

It requires you to take actions that are congruent with your
wishes in order to translate them into reality, but the first step is to have
that dream – your own dream, not
anyone else’s ideas about what is best for you in life – and then absolutely
commit yourself to its achievement.

by Will Edwards