Is your ‘reality’ blocking your dazzling view?

“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what you specifically intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach, but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.” – Joseph Campbell

This is just so beautifully and well put by Joseph Campbell. It means that any grand dream must be disruptive that it terrifies the status quo. This status quo is what is called the ‘reality’.

Those people who are fully reliant on this ‘reality’ become timid souls who would rather spend their lives in a tiny zone of security versus venturing out into the blue ocean of dazzling opportunity. 

Many years ago, greatest thinkers, philosophers and scientists believed that the world was flat and whenever they sailed their ships, they did so with so much caution because in their minds, they thought they would reach the end of the world and fall off.

Later on, they discovered that, no! The world is not flat but round or global, hence called the globe and not only that, also it was discovered that it’s spinning around its axis.

This changed the ‘reality’, the limiting view of the world.

In the human science world, it was believed that the human brain was fixed, that once you reach a certain age that was it! The saying, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” became popular and represented ‘reality’.

In the 1960s and 1970s, neuroscientists discovered a new phenomenon that is called neuroplasticity. According to the theory of neuroplasticity, thinking, learning, and acting actually change both the brain’s functional anatomy from top to bottom.

You must from time to time pause and smell the fresh roses along the way to influence your reality.