<p>Dreams are the stuff that make up our lives.  We are either in the fortunate group of people who are living out our dreams, or we are those restless, wandering individuals who are living the proverbial lives of quiet desperation. </p>
<p>I am not talking about daydreams or fantasies.  We all have those fleeting glimpses of ourselves playing center field for the New York Yankees or the St. Louis Cardinals, as the case may be, in the final game of the World Series.  I am, instead, talking about dreams as a future visualization of how our lives could be or should be.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/08/the-life-of-your-dreams-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: The Life of Your Dreams by Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1903,"date":"2013-08-08T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:37:29","slug":"the-life-of-your-dreams-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/08\/the-life-of-your-dreams-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Your Dreams by Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dreams are the stuff that make up our lives.  We are either in the fortunate group of people who are living out our dreams, or we are those restless, wandering individuals who are living the proverbial lives of quiet desperation. <\/p>\n<p>I am not talking about daydreams or fantasies.  We all have those fleeting glimpses of ourselves playing center field for the New York Yankees or the St. Louis Cardinals, as the case may be, in the final game of the World Series.  I am, instead, talking about dreams as a future visualization of how our lives could be or should be.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/08\/the-life-of-your-dreams-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Life of Your Dreams by Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dreams are the stuff that make up our lives. 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