I received this message of encouragement following my last post “My First Steps in Entrepreneurship” from a great friend of mine Gisela Garcia. I met Gisela in an IT project management class that I took last summer at UM and we simply hit it off. She’s continued to be a source of inspiration and support for which I am very grateful. I haven’t been able to pinpoint the source of the writing, but it’s also been passed around with a quote from Louisa May Alcott (the author of the classic book Little Women):

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

– Louisa May Alcott

I hope you enjoy this in the way that I did.

What would you do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?

What would you do if you knew you could not fail? What kind of person would you be? What would a typical day look like? There’s a reason that star-gazing provokes the most powerful dreams. They’re right there for the taking, yet you can’t touch them. Their distance only feeds an ability to inspire. Dreams may seem out of reach, but that’s not the point of dreams. They’re there to be felt, not touched or dissected. What a star is made of is meaningless to a moonlit dreamer. The epic possibilities are what’s important. The payoff is not so much in the destination as it is in the journey. By following your dreams, you make their beauty a part of who you are. Your life begins to shine. You become a better person. By chasing that star, you’ve already captured its magic.

1. Jerome Says:
   July 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

   THE PAYOFF IS NOT SO MUCH IN THE DESTINATION AS IT IS IN THE JOURNEY! - My favorite part of the excerpt.