Advance Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams

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August 24, 2025

Sunday SAGe Volume 49: Advance Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams

Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive during the coming week (and beyond!).

This week’s focus is on my favorite quote from Henry David Thoreau and has served as a guide for my life.

Advance Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams

An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:

But whatever you’ve done, wherever you are, you’re on a journey. You’re on a never-ending quest to connect with the beautiful love inside of you and to feel it and share it with the world every day of your glorious life. Your Self-Actualized Genius will guide you on your journey, so you’re in good hands.

Nurture the wonderful gift of your existence, my friend, and advance confidently in the direction of your dreams!

What It Means

Thoreau’s immortal words, in this quote below, never cease to inspire me.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and philosopher

When you pursue your dreams with passion, and actively shape your life around them, you’ll often find joy and success in ways you never anticipated. For me, I never expected that writing my first screenplay in my early-20s would lead to a life-long journey of creative writing that would culminate with the publication of The Wellness Ethic. Writing my book, no matter if it sells 50 copies or 50,000 copies, is, for me, a “success unexpected in common hours”!

Your Call to Action

Do you have an unfulfilled dream? No matter what age you are or what your circumstances may be, how can you take a step forward in the direction of your dreams? Once you take that first step, there’s no reason to ever stop.

Advance confidently in the direction of your dreams!