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From Dreaming to Doing

Cslewis I just ran across an excellent quote from one of my favorite authors, C.S. Lewis:

"God allows . . . disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavor.  It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek.  It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together.  In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming to laborious doing."

I like that last part especially, ". . . the transition from dreaming to laborious doing."

What experiences do you readers have of this? Do you remember transitions from excitement to work? What pushed you through it?

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6 responses to “From Dreaming to Doing”

  1. coach Avatar
    coach

    From dream to reality takes time+effort+focus+persistence.From becoming a starter in high school to graduating from college to marrying the girl of my dreams to becoming a dad to getting first job to coaching to winning championship to becoming involved with TEAM leadership and growing myself – all are a result of the above. Thanks for all you do Chris in helping me grow–be free coach

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  2. Chuck Larner Avatar
    Chuck Larner

    Chris,
    Off topic comment here. Loved your Overcoming Obstacles at the Major. Here’s an idea for the next one. Obstaclees brother Mediocratees.

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  3. Ian from Texas Avatar
    Ian from Texas

    Chris,
    Wow. I can barely take the time to digest one article and BLAMMO here comes another. You are on FIRE!!!
    Keep them coming.
    Transitions form excitment to work….
    I have spent the last 2.5 years of my life involved in the construction of a 200 million dollar facility to produce super absorbant polymer…aka magic baby diaper stuff.
    I was “volanteered” to leave my old job to go help out during the beginning of construction.
    The new plant was being built on the site of a demolished unit, and some of the infrastructure still remained. I was the only operations person there besides my manager, and a couple of engineers.
    What ended up happening is exactly what the quote in LLR says, “Sooner or later, we are all called upon to lead.
    I started pointing out many things that no one had taken into consideration. My manager finally told me, “Dude, just handle it!”
    Behind schedule, with multi-billion dollar contracts hanging in the breeze, I just went for it.
    400 to 500 contract workers building the place.
    Writing 30 to 40 Safe work, confined space, and hot work permits a day. Making sure equipment was safe to work on, keeping the coffee going 🙂
    Working 12 hours a day, six days a week, not only did we start up ahead of schedule, constuction returned about 8 million dollars of the budget.
    When all the other operators arrived, I had to endure negative comments, jealousy, back stabbing. I just kept my head down and worked. I tried to find win/win opportunities between construction and operations, so everyone could get what they wanted.
    It was utter chaos, and I absolutely loved it.
    Now the plant is up and running. I am back to being just a cog in the machine. Those individuals with greater title than myself have made it a point to “put me in my place”. My manager called me in his office and told me he would never recognize my contribution or achievement publicly because it would just cause jealousy.
    I gave him a copy of Launching a Leadership Revolution. I think it made him mad. 🙂
    I guess my point is this:
    LETS ROLL!
    Give me some bitter no shows!!!
    Give me crazy animals!!
    Bring on the drunks that think they can show a better plan. Bring on the 5 plans in one day…
    Tick Tock….
    Tick Tock….
    BRING IT!!!
    Thanks Chris,
    Ian from Texas

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  4. Deb Avatar
    Deb

    I was around music as I grew up, singing, performing, taking lessons, so, of course, I would be a music major in college.
    Ahem.
    Nobody told me about classical voice lessons, form and analysis, music theory, etc etc etc …!
    Difficult, to say the least. Only one cum laude in the entire music department, but I loved it — eventually!

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  5. Chris Brady Avatar
    Chris Brady

    Chuck Larner:
    Mediocrates is a good one! Someone also mentioned that in my talk I said “If Only ‘I’da’” and suggested that maybe Obstacles has a wife or girlfriend named “Ida”, she could be the Queen of Regret. I wonder what other names we could come up with for the other negative little dudes in his village?
    Chris

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  6. SpiritualLyric Avatar
    SpiritualLyric

    My husband and I were married in October of ’07. It’s a prime example of the transition from excitement to work. He is a very high S…C personality and my daughter and I are very high D…I so the excitement came from God giving us this awesome loving man to be our husband and dad and then after the fact of being married..was when the work began. Trying to merge our lives and personalities together hasn’t been an easy journey and I know that it’s not always going to be, but what has gotten us through is a lot of prayer and what we’ve learned through the books and cd’s we’ve gotten through system! It seems like the speakers that we’ve heard at different times have spoke on exactly what we needed to hear at exactly the time we needed to hear it. Of course we know that it’s God at work in our lives! This is just one example in our lives.

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