Lately, I have been a little down in the dumps. At work I am constantly behind because of all the support, mentoring, meetings, and of course the occasional time for actual development. Don't get me wrong here, I love my job. However, certain events have occurred recently that were unexpected. For the last few weeks I have been dwelling on those events finding it hard to stay motivated, as well as finding it hard to wake up and get to work. Last weekend, I went to my mother in laws church where her pastor was speaking on The Last Lecture. The Last Lecture is a book and a speech by Randy Pausch. In this speech Randy talks about dreaming. This happened to be the topic the pastor was speaking on. It hit me like a stack of bricks. I never went to college, got and undergraduate degree, and a master's degree to dream of being middle management. No, my dreams were much larger than that. What I realized out of this whole thing that I had forgot about my dreams. Instead I got caught up in dwelling on the downside of events. Lesson learned. Since that day I have been working on achieving my dreams, and not dwelling on events out of my control. If you get a chance you should buy The Last Lecture, and like myself become enlightened and reminded to dream!