09-21-09 Monday and we start again.

"To dream anything that you want to dream; that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything you want to do; that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits; that is the courage to succeed." Bernard Edmonds.



Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,

What are your dreams. Most of you with children and Grandchildren, I bet that dream would be for them to grow up healthy an strong, to have as few problems in life as possible, and that is all well and good, but ''WHAT ARE YOUR DREAMS FOR YOURSELF?"

I think we all need to have dreams for ourselves, and I ran across this poem that just seem to have been written for this journey we are on , so this morning I would like to share that poem with you.

Build your castles in the air.
Set no limits.
Lay your foundations in the clouds.
You are the builder.
Color your life with the pictures in your mind.
Set no boundaries.

Let your imagination be the canvas.

You are the artist.
Find Knowledge in the Universe.
Set no obstacles.
Life is your classroom.
You are the teacher.
Your dreams are your realities.
Dream on.
And let your spirit soar.

If you can see it, you can have it.
If you can feel it, you can be it.
IF you can dream it, you can achieve it.
DREAM ON. Maureen Weiner

When I read the above poem, I could find so many of the things we have talked about in Weight Watchers. We build our castles, with the image we have in our minds. In the beginning we set no limits, nothing will get us off track. We lay our foundation, by reading labels, tracking, getting in our activity, and going to meetings. We have a picture in our minds, of what we want to look like, maybe it's in that red hot jump suit. We do set boundaries, we have to. Our imagination, is allowed to run wild, day dreaming of what will lie ahead, and how excited we will be to make it to goal.

We get to be the ''artist'', the person that paints the outcome of this journey. We look for answers by asking questions, and searching the W.W. website. Oh but there are always going to be an obstacle or two, and as a rule that obstacle has a name, ''ME". The classroom is all those that have become lifetime members before us, we learn from them. They are our teachers. Our dreams can become our realities. It is so important to dream, and we can let our spirits soar to new hight.

All this falls again to, ''How badly do you want to lose the weight?" How badly do you want to feel better and feel better about yourself? Yes, if you can see it, you can have it. If you can feel it, you can be it. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. So dream on, and follow that dream.