As March Madness has ended, it reminded me of all the opportunities that the different teams had to win it all. Some missed it by one shot, one fowl, one missed play. They were so close to the goal but something happened and it prevented it from coming to pass. It also reminded me of different people I know, some are in the game, some are watching the game and some don’t even know the game is being played. I have found that there is one thing separates the dreamer and the doer. It also separates the wishful from the wealthy. Two people can have the same capabilities, same hope and same aspiration, but have radically different outcomes. How? One acted and the other did not.
ACTION is the great separator from the dreamers and the doers. Right now, there are opportunities, ideas, dreams or aspirations in your life that you know you SHOULD act on, you WANT to act on, but you are afraid to ACT on. Oh, you might be excusing your lack of action by your telling yourself you don’t know what to do, how to do it or if it will work out. I can tell you firsthand, nothing I have ever accomplished had I done before. There are some things that came natural to me and others that I really had to struggle to accomplish. But the fact of the matter is if you want to gain something, you have to do something, and if you want to do something you have to hear something first. You may not have any experience in the thing that you want to do or the thing that you have been dreaming about, but that is where faith comes in. You have to just jump out there and do it, even if you don’t know whether or not it will work out the way that you want it to. Just jump in, get started and watch that dream come to reality.
Unless you become a doer, you will never know if the outcomes will evolve into ways well beyond what you could have planned for or envisioned at the beginning, meaning all the paralysis by analysis is useless anyway because it will never work out as you plan. Faith without works is dead without action or being left alone! The key is to just get started. Someone said to me recently, “You don’t have to see the whole staircase to take the first step.” That’s the key—just take the first step. Then when you do, take another. One at a time—one after another. Before you know it you will have risen to the top of an industry, maybe heights you could never have allowed yourself to dream of and set goals for, simply because you jumped in and got started. That’s all it takes, ACTION. You don’t have to see it to believe it, you have to believe it first then you will see it.
Dreamers and Doers are separated and their results are totally different. Dreamers have to wake up from dreaming and go back to what they were doing before they started dreaming. What they were thinking on only remains in the unseen because they fail to take the next step. Doers take the dream and work it until it becomes the reality that they want it to be. They take the next step and put into action what they dreamed about. Don’t spend all your days just dreaming about a thing. I am not saying not to have a dream but if your dream does not call you to action, it has no chance of coming to pass. Don’t let your delay stop the dream. Even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that was deeply rooted in the American dream. But you can tell that his dream was not just a day-dream because his dream took root. Some legs were put to it and it caused people to run. People need a vision or they will perish because they don’t see something greater than themselves or where they are. But somebody needs to run with the vision once it has been made plain. So wake up dreamer and get to work. Let us see your dream fulfilled in our lifetime and who knows what a better place this world will become because your dream took flight.
Eric Smith
Leadershifting to Success 
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