The Reward

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You will have seen the delirious happiness of sports teams winning championships, and of athletes winning gold medals and breaking world records. Their energy is so potent it sweeps over you; you are filled with exhilaration, and even stirred to tears. Yet our feelings in watching them are nothing compared to what the sports person or athlete is feeling in their moment of victory. For it's only after having taken every step of the journey, having persisted through the challenges and overcoming all the obstacles, that you can know what it truly feels like to experience the ultimate reward of the moment of success.

The ultimate reward of the success of your dream does not mark the end of the journey, but the beginning of another. Suddenly, financial rewards and countless opportunities to expand or build on your dream will flood into your life. The money, opportunities, and success bring with them a glorious sense of freedom, but they don't compare with the overwhelming joy and satisfaction that you did it- out of nothing, you made something.

When success comes most likely you will find yourself standing in a place where, perhaps for the first time in your life, you can buy things you've always wanted to buy, you can travel to places you've always wanted to go, and you can do things you've always wanted to do. Along with that, you have the incredible opportunity to be able to share your success with family and friends, so that their lives can improve to.

There's no better feeling in the world than to have found your dream and living it. To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation seems boring- that is living!

Experiencing the rewards from realising a dream is glorious, and every person who fulfils their dream deserves each and every one of those rewards. Most likely you will also be filled with excitement and enthusiasm to continue to build on your success and take you dream even further, now knowing that you have the qualities and abilities within you to achieve anything you can think of. But this is not the end of your story.

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