The first step of any creative journey is to have a vision – a goal you work towards. Without that vision, that goal, you can aimlessly drift from job to job. All of a sudden decades have passed by.
As this time drifts, the dream fades into something that once flickered your mind.
It never gained the clear vision from you that it demanded. Perhaps you never fully understood its significance when it arrived – it was calling you.
You have to listen to your dream. You have to focus on the vision of making that dream a reality.
In this speech by the Hollywood actor and former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, he shares his own journey from his rural beginnings in Austria to the Hollywood dream. He had a vision, and it took him further than anyone close to him thought was possible. But Arnold did not listen to them. He listened to the dream.