Re: tkt8763-01: SuccessChat.com Email Broadcast: (fwd)

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Thanks Dr. A. for sharing this excellent message with us.  I thoroughly
enjoyed reading it!:)

Cheryl D. Scales

Larry S. Anderson -- NCTP wrote:

> This came from a friend of mine in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.  It bears
> reading...and thinking....about yourself.
>
> Much of what we discuss in Seminar in Planning is how we understand our
> dreams, how we craft the action elements to make our dreams become
> reality, and how we share our dreams with others (even in the face of
> possibility that our dreams will not be understood--even by our closest
> friends).  Yet, we cannot quit dreaming!  We must persist! And...
>
> ...if you haven't read the "tag line" on Alan Brown's email messages, I
> suggest you do so.  It's well worth reading...and pondering deeply.
>
> Now, you dreamers.......read the following...and keep those wings spread!
>
> Larry S. Anderson, Ed.D.                              LSA1@Ra.MsState.Edu
> Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Technology & Education       Voice: (662) 325-2281
> Founder, National Center for Technology Planning      Fax: (662) 325-7599
>                     Mississippi State University
> Chair, Council for Education Technology              State of Mississippi
>          My personal home page URL-- http://www2.msstate.edu/~lsa1
>                     NCTP web page -- http://www.nctp.com
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:12:49 -0500
> From: SuccessChat <darren@SuccessChat.com>
> To: LSA1@Ra.MsState.Edu
> Subject: SuccessChat.com Email Broadcast:
>
> I think this story is a good reminder that only YOU have to be a
> believer in your dreams.  Along the journey to reaching for your
> goals, realizing your potential, or just standing for your values,
> good intending people without the same ambition, vision or confidence
> will tell you it can't be done and will even passiontely discourage
> you. But, only YOU needs to believe in YOU.  How big is YOUR vision?
> Can you dream a bigger dream?  -Darren Hardy
>
> ********************************
> Follow Your Dream
>
> By Jack Canfield
> from Chicken Soup for the Soul
>
> I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San
> Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to
> raise money for youth at risk programs.
>
> The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, "I want to
> tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story
> about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who
> would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to
> farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy's high
> school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he
> was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he
> grew up.
>
> "That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of
> someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great
> detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the
> location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he
> drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would
> sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.
>
> "He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day
> he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper
> back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See
> me after class.'
>
> "The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and
> asked, `Why did I receive an F?'
>
> "The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy
> like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You
> have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You
> have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock
> and later you'll have to pay large stud fees. There's no way you
> could ever do it. Then the teacher added, `If you will rewrite this
> paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.
>
> "The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his
> father what he should do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to
> make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very
> important decision for you.
>
> "Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the
> same paper, making no changes at all. He stated, `You can keep the F
> and I'll keep my dream.'"
>
> Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I tell you this
> story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the
> middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper
> framed over the fireplace." He added, "The best part of the story is
> that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp
> out on my ranch for a week." When the teacher was leaving, he said,
> `Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was
> something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of
> kids dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on
> yours."
>
> Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter
> what.  Tell them they can keep their opinion- you are going to keep
> your dream.
> *********************************
>
> Darren Hardy
> Living Large!
>
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