It’s that time of year again, the New Year, when we all resolve to make changes, start over, look better, feel better, and be better people with better lives than before. However, what it’s really all about is a simple yearning people feel to reconnect with their dreams, which made me think about the huge role that Disney plays in helping us reconnect to that important place in our hearts where our dreams still exist, but may have been lost in the pile of details that we must to attend to in everyday life. Perhaps almost as important as breathing, dreams are a vital part of our livelihood, for without them we would all be more lost than we already are in this crazy life.

When the powerful feeling of Disney is upon us, suddenly we are allowed to be lost in the pursuit of our dreams and be the best that we can be. This year is being declared by Disney as “The Year of a Million Dreams,” a 15-month celebration, where many Disney guests will be granted some of the grandest dreams imaginable, including trips to every Disney Park around the world, a dream FASTPASS to enjoy some of Disney’s most popular attractions and my personal favorite, an overnight stay in the newly constructed royal suite inside the Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World. Talk about a dream come true! Perhaps this can be looked upon as just a new marketing campaign and well maybe it is, but at least we can be sure that because it’s Disney they will deliver what they promise and continue to inspire us as they always have to remember and believe in our dreams again.

When it comes to Disney I feel it is most important to always remember that all of this exists because Walt Disney had a genuine desire to bring to life to the hopes and dreams of all people. Not for money, not for fame, just because he recognized how important this was for the good of humanity and that dreams give people a platform for happiness. Walt Disney was the consummate dreamer, there wasn’t any dream too large for him that he couldn’t make a reality. Had the world not lost him much too soon who knows what other dreams he would have made come true for all of us. Luckily, he left us with the constant hope that dreams are possible, and we can make them happen if we just believe them to be true in our hearts. That legacy will live on forever in Disney, that is the Disney feeling and with that I will leave you with a quote from the only and only Walt Disney.

“Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy, and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all over, implicitly and unquestioningly.”

WALT DISNEY

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