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What Do You Dream About?

Actually, you don’t have to tell me – this was the question I was asked recently by someone.

What do you dream about?

There is, of course, hell of a difference between dreaming and not doing anything to make the dream come true – and being driven by your dream to get closer to realising it.

And very often we succumb to a sort of casual dreaming, the one that provides the otherwise dull and uneventful life with an “injection” of serotonin to keep us going. Moreover, we only dream about things for ourselves and maybe a few close ones. The rest of the world is not included.

Here is where the problem lies. Reaching the heights of personal happiness and thus releasing the mentioned happiness chemical will only temporarily cure any lack in well-being. The reason is simple: you’re constantly drawing on your own resources to pump yourself happy.

Try and help others. Give them a smile. Give them a hand. Don’t just dream how good your house will be with a new kitchen. Dream how good everyone’s kitchen can be when everyone can afford to have a kitchen of their dreams. To make this happen, something will have to change in design, in economy, in the way we live. James Dyson did just that, and now that his vacuum cleaners are making millions of people happy, he is a happy man. And no, not only because he’s become a billionaire. It is because people’s satisfaction rubs off on him.

The law of attraction still works here, too. If you want to be happy, start dreaming of seeing other people happy. The truth is that we can really make a better world. But we need to answer this question first.

What do you dream about?

Author: Julia Shuvalova

Julia Shuvalova is the author of Los Cuadernos de Julia blog. She is an author of several books, a translator, and a Foreign Languages tutor. She lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

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