Make Your Own Rain

Think of yourself as an ocean or lake filled with water of hope and dreams. As you stir and heat up your water they evaporate and transform into water vapour which rise to the sky. 

When the water cool down they condense into water droplets to form clouds. Once the clouds are saturated enough they precipitate and fall down as rain to water both the land and sea.

While you may not wanna blow your own trumpet, you owe it to yourself to make your own rain and create the life of your dream. Sure, you may find your own rainmaker or fairy godmother, but why leave it to chance in the sweet by and by?

The past is past. BUT NOW, you can make a difference. Your life will not change unless you make a deliberate change. Little steps are a modest start which will escalate into a momentum as you persist until your dream grips you and would not loosen its hold on you.

Let the following excerpts from a commencement speech given by Bradley Whitford at the University of Wisconsin inspire to you be your own rainmaker:

"1. Fall in love with the process and the results will follow.

2. Do your work. Find joy in the process of preparation.

3. Listen to the whispers inside you. We have a lot of problems in this world and we're going to need you think outside the box.

4. You are capable of more than you think. Don't limit yourselves.

5. Listen. Listen isn't passive. It is an act of liberation that will connect you to the world with compassion and be your best guide as you navigate  the choppy waters of love, work and citizenship.

6. Take action. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes. Learn what you can and move on. At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

I want you to be an actor in your own life. Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honour your Creator, not by passively waiting for your grace to come down from on high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen -- yourself, right now, right down here on Earth." 

"I work best inundated with things, when it's like raining information." -- Ryan Seacrest

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