Think back, if you are over 30,
to what you wanted to be…
” when you grew up”.

Remember the thoughts and dreams you had almost daily of becoming that which you held in the front of your mind. Plans were made, practices were
gone through.

At one point I wanted to be a professional athlete in whatever sport was in season at the time.
As a young boy I was aspirational without the understanding to facilitate those dreams.
I saw the desire with my eyes and felt it, even deeply in my heart… without any understanding in my brain.

There were some achievements and successes …but they mostly failed to reach the earlier aspiration.

Browning wrote…
” a man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for”.

As we grow and mature we see many of those younger-life hopes and dreams expire. Practicality and sometimes life itself bring different and varied results and circumstances can dictate where our steps take us.

One thing I have seen
as a grown Man,
one thing that is, to me, essential to always growing and getting better….
and I have seen that it pays great dividends and brings continual Light into life…

it is essential for a continually growing and energized life…

to always be Aspirational.

No matter ones age,
No matter ones station in life.

Be continually aspirational.

Hope for a better year this than last.
Work toward it.

Always be teachable,
and seek to learn new or deeper things.
Take the steps, read the books, attend the meetings…..
to get better.

To improve.
To increase your abilities.

To be the fullest of whatever you can be.

In an earlier writing I quoted
TD Jakes as he answered an interviewers question.

He was asked why, after having such great success, was he now expanding his ministry, getting into so many new things…

Jakes answered…..

” I want to see what’s in me”.

He is 59 years old.

I know exactly what he is saying.
And, I agree.

If you are 25 and seemingly have your life ahead of you…
you might think a 59-60 year old would be ready to retire and ” get off the stage”.

Yet, TD Jakes wants to push himself to greater things.

It is, indeed, a process.

Aspiration.

You might not be young ….
but you can keep a youthful and
hopeful heart and mind if you continue to pursue greater things… seek more out of life and faith,
and aspire to “see what’s in you”.

It creates an attitude of youthfulness and energy.

Continue to make plans and look expectantly forward.

I hope to have a deeper walk with my Lord….going forward…and will read His Word daily to do my part.

I will work to be better at my craft in my 32nd year than this my 31st.

Tomorrow may be my final day of life…but I choose to live today with an aspirational heart and spirit.

My hope for you is that your dreams will still exist and your reach will always exceed your grasp.

Hope for deeper and better things.
Work toward them with all of your gifted talents and abilities.

We may be older and wiser than when we had a lower number for an age…

but that does not negate a youthful, energized and hopeful heart or mindset.

Hope.
Dream.

Aspire.

Forever.