Great article and good for you for being willing to remind people that it takes patience, time, and some effort to build a dream career. Far too many people have now been lulled into believing that if they just think about it and visualize it, create a vision board, etc, everything will suddenly materialize in their lives for them with no further effort on their part. What the visualization and visual cues do is to remind us of our focus or the goal we’re trying to reach–it still takes work to bring the dream into reality.

I really liked your point about connecting with your heart and what it says about a path we’re pursuing. It isn’t by accident that we use phrases like “My heart just isn’t in this task or job”,or we feel “encouraged”. Something to think about in terms of listening to what your heart has to say about something: all those words like courage, encourage, etc, all have their roots in the French word for heart–coeur. We’re not really supported or encouraged in our culture to look within and listen to that quiet little voice of our spirit/soul talking to us, but it’s vitally important that we do so.