If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
~Scottish Proverb and Nursery Rhyme, 1628
Contributing writer, Mackenzie Clench, is a favorite writer in the iCreateDaily community. Writing is his art and lifelong passion, and in this piece titled ‘If Wishes Were Horses’, Mackenzie revives and modernizes this old British idiom.
This engagingly humorous and thoughtful essay, brings to mind how so many of the answers we seek have most often been present all along. The wisdom of the ages is present within each of us.
The wisdom of the ages is present within each of us.
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder-iCreateDaily.com
If Wishes Were Horses
By Contributing Writer, Mackenzie Clench, of Buried In Blu
Greetings, Fellow Space Cadets!
Recently I’ve been having a bit of a think – a process that rarely ends well it must be said – about how we often fall into the “wish” trap.
Wishes are lovely thingies in and of themselves, but it’s all too easy to get caught up in the process, to just put them out there and “hope” that they come true.
Anyone who’s ever achieved their wishes (or “dreams” if you want to be pedantic, or “rutabagas” if you want to be weird) will tell you that they did it by taking decisive action toward their fulfillment.
Anyone who’s ever achieved their wishes or “dreams”… will tell you that they did it by taking decisive action toward their fulfillment.
~Mackenzie Clench, Writer, CoveredInBlu.com
Don’t Fall into the Trap
Advising you to take decisive action is not exactly a ground-breaking insight I grant you, but there it is.
However, every damn day people fall into the trap of wishing without doing, dreaming without taking any action to get closer to those wishes. Or dreams. Or… rutabagas.
It’s like designing your dream home and then sitting back, hoping that a contractor will happen by and build it. Take it from me kids, that way be dragons. (And not the “Puff the Magic” kind either.)
Inspiration works in a similar way. In the words of Pablo Picasso, “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.”
“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.”
~Pablo Picasso, famous multi-disciplinary Spanish artist, 1881-1773
Dream Big, and Then…
By all means, dream big. Visualize, plan and prepare. But understand that nothing… NOTHING will happen until you take some kind of action toward fulfilling that dream.
“At some point the preparation ends, and the real work begins.”
~Mackenzie Clench, Writer, CoveredInBlu.com
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My name is Mackenzie Clench and I’m the CEO, Scribbler and Chief Fuss Maker of Blü Creative (Formerly Mackenzie Clench Creative) I’m an author, an empath, a foodie and a ten-cent philosopher with an obsession for the written word that borders on the pathological. As a child I was bitten by a radioactive thesaurus and granted special powers – powers which I have sworn to only use for good.
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