Stop Dreaming! Make It Happen!: Determination and Commitment Is the Pathway to Finding Your Dreams

By Elmay Hatcher

This book can change your life significantly by showing you how to take responsibility for your life and to follow your dreams. In this life changing book Elmay describes strategies you can use to help you get on the right track to start chasing your dreams. She gives you the tools to stay motivated, to set goals, and how to eliminate many of life pitfalls while following your dreams.

Are you living your dreams or you just chasing them? What is holding you back from changing the conditions of your life and become the person that you know youre capable of being? Are you ready to experience the success that God has predestined for you? Honestly, are you living your dreams?

Follow your dreams is a life changing book. It describes how to set your goals and go after them relentlessly. I share some of the personal insights and practical suggestions that I have acquired over the years.

I want you to focus on your dreams and go after them relentlessly while using the principles and practical suggestions outlined in this book.

If you want to leap into your dreams and make them it a reality, you will find this book valuable in preparing you to reach your full potential. God has a plan for your life. If you trust His plan and discover your purpose and go after it with determination, you will discover the best in you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456763091

Elmay Hatcher

About the author Elmay Powell-Hatcher, Ed.D., is an author and a motivational speaker in the field of self-development. She is the author of the book-Searching for the Best. She is a member of the ZETA Phi Beta Sorority. Her major researches are in education leadership and multicultural education. She is spiritually and professionally committed to inspire people to follow their dreams. Elmay has spent over thirty years educating and inspiring people. Through her workshops she gives people the tools to stop the emotional roller coaster that is hindering them from following their dreams and to move forward to finding their dreams. She received her doctorate in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University and is an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University. Elmay resides with her husband of 28 years in Delray Beach, Florida.

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter One

Turn Your Dreams into Reality

Chapter Two

Determination-Move Up to Another Level

Chapter Three

It’s Your Choice

Chapter Four

Change is Necessary

Chapter Five

Defining Moments

Chapter Six

Trust God for Directions

Chapter Seven

Nothing is Free! Nothing is Easy!

Chapter Eight

You are the Leader of Your Destiny

Chapter Nine

Give Your Best

Chapter Ten

God’s Plan for You

Chapter Eleven

Don’t Stay Captive

Chapter Twelve

The Past is Gone-Let Go!

Chapter Thirteen

Are You the Captain of Your Soul?

Chapter Fourteen

Time Not Manage is Time Lost

Chapter Fifteen

Walk in Your Destiny

Chapter Sixteen

Mother Makes a Difference

Acknowledgements

About the author

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Harrington Hall, whose life was cut short. We think he is gone too soon, but God has a better plan for his life. Harrington you were such a role model to so many children. No wonder God wants you to be one of His Heavenly Angels.

You live on in our hearts. You will be forever missed by family and friends!

Rest in Peace-Harrington!

Sonia and Shallane Trust in God!

When life knocks you down, remember you can always get up.

Introduction

Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualized is true. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will actualize itself. Feelings of confidence depend on the type of thoughts that habitually occupy your mind. Think defeat and you are bound to feel defeated. Emerson said: They conquer who believe they can… and do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain." Practice confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities soon will have no power over you-

Norman Vincent Peale

As a child, I always love reading. I would read almost everything that I could find to read. One day I stumbled upon a romance novel and then my focus shifted to reading romance novels. Years later someone gave me a copy of the Power of Positive Thinking, by Norman Vincent Peale. He told me it would change my life and he was right. It was from that book that I found my first inspirational message. The book changes my life psychologically and spiritually. Norman Vincent Peale says, "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement."

Later I found another copy of inspirational book-Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. This book also inspired me. I began to put all that I had garnered over the years and then wrote my first inspirational book-Searching for the Best. It has been my inspiration to write to inspire and to give guidance to those who may be unsure of their efforts to turn their dreams into reality. Many things come into play with one desires to succeed. The inspirational words from my mother, who wants me to reach the top, the inspirational books I read and other people like Oprah and my own desire to succeed have helped me to be who I am today.

When an idea first flashes into your mind you must be in a position to act upon it. You must find a way to carry out your own desire. Remember, when you asked God for something he always gives you an idea. So as ideas comes in one’s life they will meet with some temporary defeat, and perhaps some failure. This book will help you realize that if you set your goals in life and go out searching, while working hard, you will achieve your goals. If you are ready to turn your dreams into reality, if you are ready to start searching then you will. The words in this book will keep your mind alert and make you observe the strange power within you. It will drive you to turn your dreams into reality. I hope the words in these pages will keep your mind alert and you will observe what strange power came to your rescue. Read it, share it, and be inspired.

"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with

the decision."                                      Eleanor Roosevelt

Bishop T.D.Jakes says, like a butterfly emerging from her cocoon, you must discard the useless husk that you continue to cling around your dreams. You can use all that you have been through as wind beneath your wings. Its time to fly! Many of us attribute success or failure to fate or some external force. We believe that we have to be in the right place at the right time in order to achieve, much like winning the lottery. But success is a direct consequence of wanting a more abundant life and working hard to earn it, like wading through the mud puddles of life toward the beckoning sea. The boundaries established in your own mind for how far you could go must be pushed upward.

Chapter One

Turn Your Dreams into Reality

We grow by dreams. All big individuals are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire on a long winter’s evening. Some of us let those great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nourish them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." – Woodrow Wilson

Dreams are the keys to unlocking your potential, guiding you and giving you a peep of what could be. Dreams help us to see that the impossible is possible. Some people had long forgotten how to dream. They suppressed their dreams and accepted their lot in life. Is this you? I want you to wake up and start dreaming again. Everyone has dreams and wishes. Whatever the situation, people who achieve their dreams have one thing in common; they create goals and pursue them with unyielding willpower. In order to be successful in life, you must have a dream, a vision and a plan to achieve your goals. Once your goal is in place, you have to manage your time wisely to carry out those dreams.

This poem spoke about forgotten dreams:

It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream.

But it was there then,

In front of me,

Bright like a sun— My dream.

And