Passion

What moves you? What makes you get up and take action? Do you know what it is inside of you that makes you tick? Our passions are the doorways to our dreams, finding one will inevitably lead you towards the other. Like a giant puzzle or a woven bracelet, our dreams and our passions go hand in hand.

The Dream Anvil was started from a simple idea, motivate people to start working on their dreams. Our dreams are not made overnight with cotton candy and fairies, our dreams take real work. They take effort. They are born in the fires of our passion, forged by our desire, and tempered by our skill and it is up to us to bring them out of our heads and into our reality. For a task such as this, only the things we are most passionate about will sustain us through all the ups and downs that are sure to follow.

This was how I got started. I love books, I love making up stories, I love playing with my imagination. At one time I wanted to grow up and become a movie director, something that was not meant to be. As that dream went supernova I was thrust into the cold black of failure, my stories sustained me. I had taken writing classes before, but they were far from my favorite or best subjects. I never thought I would write a weekly blog or an entire book. Yet here I am, writing away like I was born to it. Why? Because one of my passions is my stories. One of my friends likes to marvel at how many artistic skills I have; I have been drawing, painting, sculpting since the time I could grasp hold of a pen. All of these talents have always been used for one thing, to share the stories that were once only in my head. It’s the same with writing today, much to the chagrin of my old English teachers.

Many of you want to know how to get started on your dreams. I wish there was a simple answer, a magic sorting hat, a wise guru living in a swamp, or even some small little website out there, that I could point you too and all of your answers would be revealed. Life if much harder to figure out. Many of us have started out wanting to be a movie director only to end up with only the bitter taste of a broken dream. Many of us will pursue dreams and passions without profit, without notoriety, without much more success than completing the task at hand. Dreams are ethereal like that, you can’t really know the shape and the form until you touch it and work it on your own Dream Anvil.

One of the best routes we can take to try and find a dream is this; pay attention to what moves you. If you are just starting out and don’t know where to start, follow what moves you. If you are a seasoned pro at the end of another long journey wondering what’s next, follow what moves you. Follow the things you love the most. Embrace them, find where your skills and passions intersect and follow that. A sorting hat might be a lot more fun, but there is no greater story than that of the dreamer searching for her passions. Search. Pursue. Embrace. This is the path that will lead you towards your dream, and that path is always worth taking.