I was literally blown away this week by the responses I received to last week’s article, A quiet rebel's guide to being unrealistic.   Dreamers, lots of them, came out of the woodwork, or more accurately, down from the clouds. They had a lot to say.

The thoroughness and forcefulness with which they have been told to kill their dreams penetrated my core.

Each one of these dreamers is splendidly unique.  You would say, “Wow, this person is not like anyone I’ve ever met.” 

Yet they all have certain things in common. They’re too humble to say this about themselves, but these common qualities shine like the sun.

Perhaps you share these things with them, and even in your humility, you can see you have these qualities.

They’re extraordinarily attractive, intelligent and artistic in everything they do, from the way they dress to the way they approach a conversation, to the way they make a presentation.  They beat the odds in creating rich, meaningful lives. And people love them.

Especially as they’re working for large corporations, the world around them has often made a point of aggressively intruding on their dreams and insisting they face reality.

But, fortunately, they have one more very important thing in common.  With no unpleasantness in their hearts, they neglect this shoddy and cruel advice, turn their face to the sun and follow their dreams. 

That is the mark of a quiet rebel. They do not fight, they do not complain, they do not yell or scream. They simply BEND reality and create the future they wish to see.

They are the very embodiment of the word CAUSATIVE.

They stand out from all the others in mega-corporations who stop dreaming and conform to the world around them, the ones who make the choice to shrink to carry on.

This is important and there’s no other word for it.  The only way to conform to the world around you is to shrink.

But you know … it’s precisely those dreams that others will tell you are impossible, those are the dreams that are going to make you deeply happy.

That’s what this New Year is all about: the choice between the dark, gray world of others’ reality or the colorful world of your dreams.

The one who owns their dreams, owns reality.  The one who owns reality, creates reality.  That’s the one who creates the ultimate outcome, the one with stronger ownership. 

Who owns your dreams?  The one you listen to.  Is the voice inside you more compelling than any others?

The world desperately needs the dreamers.  The world desperately is in need of your dreams, especially if you dream in color.

That’s what being causative is all about – taking your ability to communicate to a level where it shapes the facts of existence.

Do you believe you can do that? That’s the reason we offer our classes and workshops. So dreamers can come and acquire the skills they need to prove that being causative is, in fact, very possible.

We are the creators of reality, which gives us life, not the accepters of reality which gives us death by 1,000 cuts.

I’ve had the feeling that I was writing these articles to the dreamers of the world, the quiet rebels.  To you.  And I am so happy to know that this is true.

Dear Dreamer, Dear Quiet Rebel – When we hear your voice, the whole world wins.  We do want yours to be a voice the whole world hears. 

Be the cause!