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May272009
What's Your Impossible Dream?
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 8:15AM The Blogmother
I saw this over at Halima's blog and thought this comment was so. on. point!
Black women, what is your impossible dream ?
Black women should consider composing an impossible dream / why not list. It must include everything they've been told they cannot do. They may be surprised at its length. It should cause them to look at their environment, their associates and friends, wonder what they're doing wrong and why.
Simply paying the bills, and existing, isn't sufficient.
They need to then ask themselves: do they fear the impossible dream / why not list? And who, and what, is influencing, or hindering their thoughts, and progression in life[*cough* ESSENCE magazine *cough*]?
The issue, usually, is not with the list, but lack of a viable and workable road map. Not having a realistic way of reaching those goals may be what is frustrating a lot of women. Goldenah on "Holding Up Traffic"
Black women, what is your impossible dream ?
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I read that comment as well, and thought Goldenah made an excellent point. Particularly this:
Simply paying the bills, and existing, isn’t sufficient.
Yes. This. We've got to get away from just surviving to thriving (whatever that means for the individual). Everyone and everything doesn't have to be a "struggle," and if there is, I don't agree with glorification of the "struggle" among so many of us.
To prosper financially and move out of state to Philadelphia/Pennsylvania!
For Black women to see that their options are nearly limitless...And that there is a big world out there for them to explore...
I want to travel abroad.
Thank you for that CW and Daphne!
Whenever I write comments like that, I apply it to myself as well.
to fly faster than a speeding bullet.
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Aw gem2001,
Here I was all set to list out a few personal Impossible Dreams, and then you go and qualify it with the ending comment. Dag-nabit. Because I’m neither.
Oh, well, side-lined again …lol.
being a guitarist, composer, and a writer should be on the impossible dream list. but the more I stay focused on my goals, the closer I get to realizing my dreams.
Write a ridiculously successful book, teach at Princeton, live in Paris for few years and be invited to speak on Real Time with Bill Maher...yeah, I said it.
Becoming an award-winning journalist, writing a successful memoir and/or novel, become a successful filmaker. I'll come back when I think of more.
I would love to own a bed and breakfast; open a facility for women who suffer from domestic violence; travel around the world; earn my doctorate. I have more...
Actually doing what makes me happy, instead of just planning on doing it one day...
Become an inspirational public speaker and a successful entrepreneur.
Become fluent in two additional languages and visit Antarctica.
Obtain my doctorate, be in business for myself, become a sex therapist, live in on a Caribbean island for at least a year, live in peace, learn a language...
to make a living as an artist, raise my children, start a community garden and art center. that's what i want.
To make the 2012 Olympic swim team.
I liked what Pixie said!
Help grab back the negative images of Black women and replace it with something fun and fabulous.
Hi Gina thanks for visiting.
My Impossible (for now) dream?: owning an apartment overlooking Lake Garda!
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a link for this small book (for the number of pages; not in its message) in a comments section of one of the blogs I hang out in. The book is called Wake Up and Live! by Dorothea Brande (first published in 1936). Some of you may be familiar with her other popular book about writing and the creative process called Becoming a Writer.
When I saw this post, and its title, I thought the Wake Up and Live! book fit perfectly, and might be of interest to a few of you here. Unfortunately, I do not have the link to the book, but I do have it saved as a PDF, which you can access/download using Adobe Reader. I've posted very little of the book below along with the entire Table of Contents. If anyone is interested in having the entire book (it's 40 pages long), you can click on my name, which will lead you to my email address. You can send me an email asking for it, and I'll reply with an attachment (the document is 215KB).
Boiled down to its very essence, the answer, the formula is this: "Act as if it were impossible to fail."
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Why Do We Fail?
Chapter 2 - The Will to Fail
Chapter 3 - Victims of The Will to Fail
Chapter 4 - The Rewards of Failure
Chapter 5 - Righting the Direction
Chapter 6 - The System in Operation
Chapter 7 - Warnings and Qualifications
Chapter 8 - On Saving Breath
Chapter 9 - The Task Of The Imagination
Chapter 10 - On Codes and Standards
Chapter 11 - Twelve Disciplines
Chapter 12 - And The Best of Luck!
A few excerpts:
TWO years ago I came across a formula for success which has revolutionized my life. It was so simple, and so obvious once I had seen it, that I could hardly believe it was responsible for the magical results which followed my putting it into practice.The first thing to confess is that two years ago I was a failure....
For I had been years in my deadlock; I had known what I wanted to do, had equipped myself for my profession---and got nowhere. Yet I had chosen my life work, which was writing, early, and had started out with high hopes. Most of the work I had finished had met a friendly reception. But then when I tried to take the next step and go onto a more mature phase it was as though I had been turned to stone. I felt as if I could not start.
Of course it goes without saying that I was unhappy. Not miserably and painfully unhappy, but just nagged at and depressed by my own ineffectuality....
We all live so far below the possible level for our lives that when we are set free from the things which
hamper us so that we merely approach the potentialities in ourselves, we seem to have been entirely transfigured. It is in comparison with the halting, tentative, hesitant lives we let ourselves live that the full, normal life that is ours by right seems to partake of the definitely super-normal....
To work my way through politics and lobby for tougher rules and regulations in the child care system!!!!!
I'm almost at my impossible dream - to lose 100 pounds and write a successful book about it! I'm 81 down and eight chapters in!!
I always said that I was sitting on my fortune.....
To own my own network and movie making biz. To change Hollywood forever and take movies and tv into black nations where we can be heroes, femmes, magical, movie stars, and princesses. I also want to have my own major cosmetics company that is widely available to women of color.
These are all WONDERFUL...and reading them made my day a little better. Thanks for the topic!
To successfully put the stories in my head on paper as books and screenplays and create and sustain an enterprise that puts them onscreen (big and small).
Good for you Tracey. I would like to be signicantly lighter and finally take the CPA exam.