How to Live Happily Ever After

We all remember from our youth the delight we would experience listening to all the stories that ended with "and they lived happily ever after." We all dreamed of our own happily ever after stories, too. Some of us dreamed of becoming astronauts, and others dreamed of becoming a doctor, nurse, pilot, sailor, explorer, and so forth, but whatever the dream we all thought of becoming great heroes in some way shape or form.

So the question here is this: Did you grow up to live happily ever after? Probably not, or else you would not be hearing this lesson. Somewhere along the line you gave up your dream and became a "grown up." You were told that you were becoming a responsible adult the day you gave up your dreams and accepted the sad reality of work, sleep, and trying to have a life in between. We thought we became wise when we gave up our childhood dreams; we condemned ourselves to the dull boring reality that someone else told us was the way to do things. We bought in to the reality of others, and now we suffer and wonder why we are not happy.

What nobody told us is this: What we think we cause to exist. Had we kept our dreams, we would have caused them to become reality; our reality. The physical is influence by thought, the old school teaching of we are what our bodies and circumstance make us to be is passing away, and is being replaced with the truth that we are what we make ourselves to be through thought. We would have been a king or queen had we only been allowed to follow our hearts instead of our heads.

The good news is it is not too late to live happily ever after. As long as there is breath in your body you can still change your life and have your dreams come true. So try to remember your dreams from your youth. What were they? Write them down on paper: NOW!

If those dreams are too silly then you can change them to something close. Say your childhood dream was to be a clown, you do not really want that now, but being an actor would be close enough. However if you still want to be a clown you can, there are schools for clowns, and even clown unions. If it is your dream, keep it in front of you and soon it will grow from idea to reality.

Look at what you have written, and add some detail as you see fit. Look at your dream every day, keep your dream always in your thoughts, soon you will see doors of opportunity open, resources become available, circumstances going in your favor, all of them adding together to help your dream become reality.

Set some small goals and follow them to completion, this will prove to you that you can be a success. Then when you look at your dream you will not see a childish fantasy, rather you will see a future reality; to live happily ever after.

Be Blessed

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