Cirque du Soleil

I went to a Cirque du Soleil show last week. How fantastic! The music, the stage design, the costumes, the creativity, the skill of the athletes, clowns, dancers, singers, stage hands - all incredible. It reminded me a bit of the Blue Man Group. But Cirque took it, as Emeril Lagasse would say, "Up another notch!" Make than another three or four notches.

As my eyes and ears feasted on the amazing - act after act after act - it struck me how Cirque seemingly started with the impossible and expanded its possibilites from there. According to Guy Laliberté, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cirque du Soleil, "Bonjour, Cirque du Soleil began with a very simple dream. A group of young entertainers got together to amuse audiences, see the world, and have fun doing it. We hope you'll be inspired to dream your own dreams, and to believe they too can come true."

What dreams do YOU dream? And what dreams did you USED TO dream - before you convinced yourself that they couldn't come true? I suspect if you really wanted to, you COULD make your dreams come true. Maybe not exactly as you've dreamt them, but certainly a notch or two (or three or four) above where they are now. Wouldn't that be delightful?

Take a quiet moment and dream the dream. Enjoy the particular pleasures it has to offer you. Breathe it in; let it linger. Let it become part of you as it once was.

Then put a smile of your face and go face your day!