INTRODUCTION: How Do You Do?

We all have a dream, a heart s desire. Most have more

than one. Some of us have an entire entourage. This is a

book about discovering (or rediscovering) those dreams,

how to choose which dreams to pursue, and practical sug-

gestions for achieving them.

There s a lot of good news about our dreams:

~ By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find

fulfillment. We don t need to pursue them all.

~ We don t have to achieve a dream in order to

find fulfillment--we need only actively pursue

the dream to attain satisfaction.

~ By living our dream, we can contribute not only

to ourselves, but to everyone and everything

around us.

And yet, with all this good news, most people are not

pursuing their dreams.

When we re not pursuing our dreams, we spend our

time and abilities pursuing the things we think will make

us happy, the things we believe will bring us fulfillment:

the new house, the new car, the new cashmere jump suit.

There s an old saying: ~You can t get enough of what

you don t really want." When the new car doesn t make us

happy, we tend to blame the new car for not being

"enough," and set our sights on a ~etter" new car. Surely

that will make us happy.

Many people are so far away from living their dream

that they have forgotten what their dream truly is.

It is sad. It is unnecessary. It is wasteful. And yet, it s

so common an ailment that it s become a cliche. We have

abandoned our heart s desire--and somewhere, deep

down, we know it. Even if we don t remember quite what

it is--we miss it.