samflamont:

If you can believe it you can achieve it, or if you can dream it you can do it…don’t stop there.  See this is incomplete information and incomplete information leads people down the wrong path.

If your dream is to play Major League Baseball can you do it? sure ( it is hard as all get out but people make it).  Problem is you can not stop at dreaming, I think this whole thing with the “secret” makes people think you can just think of something long enough and it will fall in your lap…this is crap.  I know this because I have thought about winning the lotto every single day since I was 18 and guess what…no winning ticket.  You know why, I never buy one.  What the secret and all these other little adages forget to mention is the ACTION part of the process.  Believe and achieve is a good stepping stone but you need to believe in yourself and then set forth upon some serious action to achieve your dream of making it to the big leagues.  Like it or not, if you just think about making it to the big leagues and then sit on your couch there will not be a scout magically drawn to your doorstep because the universe meshed with your thought process or the law of attraction or whatever else you want to call it.

If you want to make it even to college you are going to have to have a dream, believe in that dream, then put some sweat behind it and I mean some serious work, if you want to play serious college ball or make it to the professional ranks.  This dream will consume a lot of time and energy, that is why it has to be something you truly want in order to follow through with how hard it is going to be.  Life is not a fairytale, I hate to be the one to break that news and sometimes people come up short of their goals no matter how much work they put in, but that does not mean it isn’t worth the effort.  You will learn a lot about yourself when you pursue your dreams.  So you can believe and I encourage you to and you can dream and I definitely encourage that, but then you have to go out and do it, put all that into action in the form of working out, practice, extra practice, not falling into peer pressure, getting your homework done, and keeping your grades up.  If you put your dream into the action part you will give yourself a chance to achieve it.

Now get outside and play some ball.