“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” –Carl Jung

I love to watch thriller movies where there is a hero that is propelled to greatness while avoiding the clutches of an evil conspirator. Often in their pursuit of their mission, they tend to not focus on those that are conspiring against them, because they know that the mission must be accomplished. They also understand that if the mission is accomplished, the one who is conspiring against them can not prevail. There are two important issues that are raised in thriller movies such as this. Every person that is on a mission must understand these two principles or they will never accomplish what is purposed:

1. You have to know your mission and focus on it

2. You have to know your assassin

We often times wonder through life in pursuit of purpose instead of taking action to make purpose happen. We dream about the life we want, instead of taking the choice to pursue the life we want. We envision where we want to be, instead of take action to make it happen. Often times, everything we want to be is in our minds and everything we want to change is in our reality. How do we switch it around? You have to take action on the things that you envision in your mind. I talk about the “one day” principle in my book, which is the human expectation that everything a person wants they will pursue “one day.” The problem with this flawed logic is one day will never come because this day is always going to be right in front of you! If you take the things that you want to do one day and begin to take action on them this day, your dream becomes your reality and your reality becomes your past.

In your pursuit you must equally know who your assassin is. How do you determine the assassin. Look for the person that discourages your dream. Look for the one that tries to put road blocks in your way. Keep in mind too that assassins like to stay close to their target, so it may actually be someone you felt was close to you. If you know your assassin, you can use them to your advantage. Sometimes in their pursuit of you, they push you further to your dream. In the movie “Man on Fire” Denzel Washington’s character used his assassins to guide him to his goal. If you know your assassin, they can never compromise your mission because you are cognisant of who they are.

There are people in life that are certified dream killers and there sole purpose is to destroy your dreams by assassinating the dreamer. How do they do this? If a person can stop you from pursuing what you know is in you, they have killed you. They have put you into the unfortunate category of the “walking dead.” True death is a psychological state of complacency that diminishes the life you could have because of your inability and fear of leaving the life you are in. Awaken! The funny thing about the hero in the movie is the assassin can never catch him because he is diligently pursuing his mission and in the pursuit always moving forward. Pursue the mission and you automatically take away the effectiveness of the assassin! Sometimes your assassin is the person you would least expect…look in the mirror.

“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –Henry David Thoreau

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” –Langston Hughes