If not now, when?

(Gambar illustrasi ni, terpaksa lah lukis sendiri, coz tak nak kacau copyright orang)

Many of us have dreams.  Those of us who have it written down and stick it up somewhere we can see everyday, would have more probability to achieve it compared to those who treated their dreams as some vague idea in their heads.  But regardless, what have we done today to achieve our dreams?  It doesn't matter if the dream is to be a bestselling author, a professional speaker, to build a dream bungalow, to own a holiday resort, to finally get slim and healthy or to get all our debts paid off.  Dreams will remain to be just dreams untill we take action to make it come true.  Of course, we will do it when...the children grow up, when...we have enough money, ...when we can find the time, after bulan puasa, after Hari Raya..after the school holidays.  But the question is if not now, when?  The hours, days and weeks, and months will pass and before we know it, it will our time to leave this earth...and what would we have accomplished? 

I like the story of Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, when they first put together the Chicken Soup for the Soul book, they wanted to be on the bestseller's list.  So someone, told them these magical words..."If there is a huge tree...but you keep on coming to this tree and whack it with an axe 5 times a day, every single day...don't you think one day, the tree is going to fall?"  Hansen and Canfield took the advice to heart and started to do 5 things everyday towards increasing sales of their book.  And the rest of the story...not only their first Chicken soup book is a bestseller...most of the subsequent Chicken soup books are bestsellers! 

So, ask ourselves, what 5 things we can do today to make our dreams come true.  What 5 things can we do today, with whatever resources we already have at hand, which will make our dreams come true?