Dreaming is easy, consistency is sacred

Always chase your dreams. 

Not just on Mondays, not just when things are aligned, not just when people are watching. Every single day, chase them. In your quiet hours. In your tiredness. In your becoming. 

We’re halfway through 2025, and I want to ask you something gently but truthfully: Why aren’t you doing the thing you said you’d do? 

You remember those declarations made on the 1st of January – soft and whispered to no one but yourself – the vision board, the journal entries, the prayers, the gym membership, the boundary you were going to set, the course you were going to start, the relationship you were going to leave, the business plan you were finally going to submit. Why has it fallen to the side?

If I asked you why you were not striving towards self-betterment by confronting the fear, self-doubt and internalised, self-deprecating prophecies – what would you say? 

I heard a powerful quote once – and forgive me, I may be paraphrasing: “Never give up on something (if) you can’t go a day without thinking about (it).” Think about the dreams that quietly haunt your peace. The ones that show up in your sleep. The ones that wrap themselves around your thoughts while you're sitting in traffic or doing something as ordinary as washing dishes. The ones that have never truly left you. 

Now imagine what your life could look like if you simply took the leap.

I’m not talking about obsessing over a person or the object of your romantic affections. That’s a whole different sermon for a different Sunday. I’m talking about purpose. Craft. Calling. The dreams that honour your becoming. 

We often hold back because something inside us believes we are not worthy of the life we envision. We procrastinate, overthink, self-sabotage. We wait to feel confident. But what if confidence is not the starting point – what if it’s the result of doing the hard thing repeatedly? 

As a healer, a writer and a student of the soul, I know how deeply our personal histories can hold us back; childhood wounds, cultural silence, economic setbacks, spiritual confusion. Generational fears passed down as ‘realism’. But what if those inherited limitations aren’t yours to keep? 

We owe it to ourselves and our ancestors to break the chain. To walk towards the unknown. To chase the dream even when our legs tremble. 

Pick up your tools. Resharpen the vision. Speak the desire out loud. Resurrect the goal. Try again. There is no shame in starting in June. The dream doesn’t care about the calendar – it just needs your yes. 

Put in the work, be consistent and take yourself seriously because your dream is still waiting on you. 

And perhaps it’s fitting to end with a tweet from someone we love to hate, the ever-controversial Cassper Nyovest. He recently made what seemed like a haphazard analysis, but it lingers with me more than I care to admit. He said something along the lines of: 

“The only thing most success stories have in common is consistency.” Again I am paraphrasing.  

It’s simple, almost too simple. But perhaps we’ve overcomplicated the road to triumph. What if the breakthrough isn’t in being brilliant – but in being consistent? 

So chase your dream. Greet it every day. Feed it with action. And keep going – even when no one’s watching. 

Because consistency isn’t glamorous, but it is sacred. And in the end, it’s what separates the dreamer from the one who lives the dream. 

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