Be the Best You Can Be

Daydreaming is extremely pleasant for both positive and negative folk. We all do it. Oh, boy! In his daydreams the self-pitying clerk inherits a fortune, quietly buys the company, and walks in one day to give a Bronx salute to his hated boss and tell him he’s fired by the new owner - the clerk, no less.

In real life, there was a humble boy named Roy Howard, who would later become a leader of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. He started as a newsboy, peddling the Indiana Times. And then one day he could buy that paper for cash.

Then we have Dolly Dizzymind, who dreams she is picked up at the curb by the most smart-looking guy you could ever imagine, in his brand new Porsche.

He makes her stoop under the weight of diamond ropes, drapes the stoop with platina mink, and wafts with her to Arabia in their private flying Ritz-Carlton suite. Not long ago the comely unknown daughter of a miner did stand at the altar with a man of millions.

You and I can be everything we ever wanted in our daydreams. Then there are some people, like Roy Howard, and the daughter of a miner, who do make their dreams turn into reality.

Many others could make their dreams come true, too. There has to be a strong desire, though. And a positive, can-do attitude. Those who have that mindset are those who transform their reality.

On the other hand, those who stay in a negative mindset condemn themselves to failure. Wishful thinking with no action is just as mind-numbing as hard liquor.

There are two distinct types of daydreamers: The positive daydreamer, who takes action to gratify his wishes, who takes definite steps to turn dreams into reality, who tackles his problem in particular, will get results. The negative type who doesn’t act, will not.