WISHING DOESN'T MAKE IT SO

No matter how good your intentions, how much you study and focus, and not matter how much you visualize a goal and/or a promise to yourself, it will never come to be without you taking appropriate action.  Did you notice how I didn't just say to take action.  I wrote that you must take appropriate action to reach your desired destination.

Since I was a little boy, I always wanted to play the guitar, and I still do.  I even had lessons when I was about 10 -- the guitar case was bigger than I was.  I talked my mother into letting me stop my guitar lessons and it was right when I was learning chords.  I can't remember what reasons I gave her, but the truth was that I was just tired of going.  I think my teacher may have also told her I needed to come twice a week instead of once a week.

I'm all grown up, now, and I have a folk guitar and an electric one -- I gave the one I took lessons with to my younger brother, who, by the way, is a professional musician -- and their safely stored away in their cases waiting for me to pull them out and pluck out some of the simple, single-note songs I learned to play as a child.  And that will be all I'll ever be able to play ... unless I take the appropriate action to learn more.

I still fantasize about playing the strings like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Prince, and Glen Campbell, and that will always be just a fantasy.  However, I can learn to play chords.  I can learn to play songs.  I can learn to play well enough to say I am a guitar player.  But that won't happen if I don't take the proper action with guitar in hand and keep working at it until I make it happen.

Whatever it is you want to do or be, always be mindful that you will need to do something to make it so.