I’m not talking about going into REM sleep. I’m talking about daydreaming.

How long do you spend every day reviewing your wishes? Desire, Napoleon Hill said, is the second step on the path to riches. The stronger your desire, the more capable you are of attaining it.

He has a great passage in Think and Grow Rich where he talks about ‘burning bridges.’ If you leave yourself room for failure, then guess what? There is room to fail. But if you burn all bridges behind you, and leave no option but success, what option are you left with? Success.

There was a general, Hill says, who had to go into a foreign nation and fight against an army that had more soldiers, and would be fighting on their own territory. The prospects were not good. The general sailed across the sea, unloaded his men, and burnt the ships.

“You see them burn,” he said. “We win, or we perish!”

They won.

Their dreams were not to escape, for there was no method for them to escape. Their dream was not to fail, for no soldier wants to fail. No soldier wants to walk into certain death. So long as there was the slighteszt chance of success, by removing all other options, that small chance suddenly became the ONLY chance.

You can bet that as those soldiers marched into battle, there was one all-consuming desire they had: victory.

What is your all-consuming desire? You have one, whether you know it or not. You DO dream, but it may not be about the things which you think you should want. Your current circumstances reflect the dreams you have been having, for the circumstance is an effect. The cause is a dream.

Give yourself a new dream, right now. Focus on it, morning, noon and night. Make it happen.