One of my favorite movies is Field of Dreams and a line from the movie haunted me for years. It's spoken by Moonlight Graham when Ray asks him how it felt to get to the Major leagues but never get a chance to play. Moonlight responds:
It was like coming this close to your
dreams, and then watching them brush
past you like a stranger in a crowd.
I had always dreamed of writing a book and being able to hold it in my hands and share it with my friends and families and maybe even a few strangers. But the older I got, the more and more I could relate to Moonlight Graham. I was letting my dream brush past me like a stranger in a crowd. One day I was thinking of this quote while at work and I asked myself what I could do to move myself a few steps TOWARD that stranger in a crowd instead of letting it move further away. So I went outside during my lunch break and sat in a parking lot in Harrisonburg, and wrote out the first page of what would eventually become "My Life Was Mercy Creek". After that day, I would write every day on my lunch break. And then I added in weekends. And then I began to get up early and write before work. And then I found more time and made more time. Everything I did brought me one step closer to that stranger, so I could stop it from brushing past me.
You know what I'm gonna ask. What can you do today to bring yourself one step closer to your dream? Don't let your dreams haunt you one more day.