Making it Happen

The last couple of days I have written all about the progress of our granny flat.  That will continue today but yesterday I saw something as never before.  That is “for a dream to become reality I must prepare.”
The builder had set up our joint up but there was still heaps we wanted to have in there to make the place independently habitable.  To that end we had kept some of the cabinets from our old kitchen when they would have been destroyed had we not specified a need for them.  We also asked the builder for a bench that we saw as perfect for our needs and would have gone had we not asked for it.
There was still stuff to be done like putting up cabinets and purchasing other needs.  We ended up doing some things ourselves.  This led me to contacting the electrician and he said he could do stuff at the end of next week.  That was ok as we still had tiles to cut.  We actually got the tiles cut that day.  We also purchased all we needed to put the tiles up.
Yesterday the electrician phoned to say he could do the job today if we wanted.  The thing was we were ready.  Ok Merril put the tiles up but we had all we needed to do it.  The electrician can come today to do his stuff (we also had a message from Bunnings telling us the cupboard we had ordered was on its way, and we picked up a mat we had ordered a week ago as it had arrived.)
What gets me is that we can go ahead, as we have prepared.  It is easy to have a dream and miss it through being unprepared.  Someone may have a dream of being a famous musician.  It is only words without practice and performance.  A band I really like has words in one of their songs that says. “they do karate while we are setting up and checking the sound.”  To be successful it is necessary to do the groundwork.  That is the way a person is spotted by an agent and a whole new world can open up.
The point for me is that no matter how humble my dream may be, I need to prepare to make it happen.  I need to see what I want and act like it is a present reality - working backwards to determine what I need to make it happen.
It is only a granny flat.  But once it is in place and ready for use, who knows what could happen?