I’m a movie fanatic.  I like most kinds of movies, but I’m partial to some of the great black and white oldies from the 40s and 50s.  I have a daughter who’s also into movies, yet if I try to get her to watch anything that was made before 1990, you’d think I was asking her to throw away the best two hours of her life.

Old, sometimes and for some people, is just not worthy.  I find myself walking past older books and titles in the bookshop in favor of the newer ones, for example.  So, it’s always a wake-up call for me when I rediscover something from an older book or a master thinker from days of yore.

Old books and thinkers remind me that people have gone before us, thinking the same thoughts, and struggling with the same issues. Nope, not many from the past had the luxury of “worrying” about getting a dream job (they were happy just to have food on the table and a warm place to sleep at night), but our ancestors did struggle with values and choices in their lives.  They did worry about doing the right things, for themselves, their families, and their communities.

So, it was great when I rediscovered Henry D. Thoreau a few weeks ago and realized how appropriate he is to those of us in our dream-job quest.  Here’s one of his thoughts:

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.  To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.  To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we with to dominate our lives.

Are you doing that Dream Jobber?  Are you thinking the thoughts that will lead you to action that will take you in the direction of that desire you’ve always had?

Thinking over and over and over again . . . and turning those thoughts into action is what will get you that dream job.

If you’d like to learn more about your thoughts leading to action, you may want to check out a more contemporary source, and another master, Earl Nightingale and his book, Earl Nightingale’s Secret Discovery.

Thoreau . . . Nightingale.  The best of the best.  Top 5ers.  Check ‘em out.

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