Think of a dream as a knitting project. When you decide that you want to knit a jersey for example, you start off with a pattern that has caught your attention. The pattern gives you the materials and instructions that you need and you go out and get the materials, the correct size knitting needles, the correct wool or yarn and perhaps some buttons or a zipper. Now that you have all of the materials for your project you begin to knit very excitedly, your dreams and goals work in the same way. You have an idea of what you would like to achieve and you gather the materials and begin your journey to complete or achieve your idea, goal or dream, one step at a time just as you would your knitting project, one stitch at a time.

Unless you are knitting a small item and have the time available to complete it in one sitting, you would put your knitting project aside and pick it up again the following day or perhaps a week or more passes before you are able to come back to it. Your dreams or goals work in the same way, you begin with the idea, gather the materials, which you may not be able to gather in one go and once you have gathered all of the materials necessary, you begin your journey toward completing your dream.

I will continue to use the word dream for any goal you would like to achieve as all goals start off in your mind. They are thoughts that you have. A thought that arises due to you seeing something that you would like to have in your life. You may very well have come across it in a dream. Maybe you saw yourself running along a beach early in the morning, you have no idea where this beach is as you live in the city and are hours away from the beach. 

The point I am trying to make here, is that the feeling with which you wake up from that dream is what carries you through your day, you feel inspired, as though you are walking on clouds and nothing can bring you down unless you allow it to. A seed has been planted within you. That feeling of freedom is what you are looking for. Every dream that we have, has a message in it for us to follow and grow. We grow as individuals daily, naturally but we can speed up the process of where it is that we see ourselves in a month, year or five years’ time.

Just like your knitting project, you complete it one stitch at a time, so too you walk toward your dream one step at a time. Occasionally you hit a snag in life, as well as in your knitting project, you may drop a stitch and need to go back to pick it up and continue working on your beautiful garment or item.

You may have read the instructions incorrectly, and knitted a few rows before their time, again in order to complete your project, you would identify the error, go back, correct it and carry on knitting. So too will you come across snags or as I like to call them speed bumps along your path toward your dream. Speed bumps are used for our safety so that we travel along the road at an acceptable speed. So too are life’s speed bumps used to slow us down so that we can get to our destination safely and securely. When reaching one of these speed bumps, you do not give up, in each speed bump there is a lesson, look for the lesson and learn. Even avid knitters make mistakes. We are all on this journey to make mistakes, learn and carry on. Each lesson gets us closer to achieving what it is that we have dreamed of achieving.