Magic happens

I believe in magic...
...but I've grown up being told to be realistic.

I believe in magic...
...but I've grown up being told to get my head out of the clouds.

I've been told I'm too much of a dreamer...
but there's something inside me that keeps gnawing at me...calling on me to act...

It's a feeling...a deep, abiding belief that I've got something bigger and greater within me; that I AM bigger and greater than I was told I can be.

I believe that magic happens.
I believe anything is possible.
...and I know that it's unrealistic.
I know I'm a dreamer.
I know that I've got my head in the clouds.

I also have my feet on the ground.

The chatter in my head--fed by all the noise that's out there--tells me this is all childish and silly and that what I've really got to do is grow up, get serious and get a real job.

And yet, in those quiet moments, when the chatter subsides, that feeling surges within me. Inside I know. I know that magic happens and I know that I AM powerful beyond measure.

And in those quiet moments, when I know it is the voice of my soul speaking to me, I know that I can continue to dream...

...and so I choose to dream out loud. At high volume.

Is it in you?

Gatorade asks in their commercials, 'Is it in you?'
Of course it is. It's in each and every one of us.
What is 'it'?
It is that which makes us human.
It is that magical something that lies behind the greatest of human accomplishments, the most spectacular of achievements and the most incredible of feats.
It is the fuel of dreams.
And it's inside each and every one of us.
No exceptions.

It is passion.
What is it that you feel passionate about? How often do you feel passionate about something?

It is belief in possibility.
It is the belief that magic happens.
Do you believe you can or are you more likely to think you can't?

It is completely unrealistic.
It is there, waiting inside of us, waiting to be accessed; waiting to be awakened.

It's early in the New Year. There's a tremendous energy surrounding everything...it's a time when we're all considering the possibility of yes, rather than no...we're considering that maybe it's possible, rather than too hard. It's a time when so many of us are feeling 'it'.

And then, that feeling fades. Why? Why not find a video like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLN2k0b3g70 and watch it. Remember that feeling and then move from there.

That's right: move.
Get up.
Do something.
Take action.
Even if your first step is getting up, getting a pen and paper, and then writing down what you're feeling. What would you like to do?
Now get up and take a step in that direction.

All the power you need is there inside you.