Reason for outside rules ... as told by Laura Ingalls Wilder

    "The fact was that Almanzo was nineteen years old.  But that was a secret because he had taken a homestead claim, and according to the law a man must be twenty-one years old to do that.  Almanzo did not consider that he was breaking the law and he knew he was not cheating the government.  Still, anyone who knew that he was nineteen years old could take his claim away from him.
     Almanzo looked at it this way: the Government wanted this land settled; Uncle Sam would give a farm to any man who had the nerve and muscle to come out here and break the sod and stick to the job until it was done.  But the politicians far away in Washington did not know the settlers so they must make rules to regulate them and one rule was that a homesteader must be twenty-one years old.
     None of the rules worked as they were intended to.  Almanzo knew that men were making good wages by filing claims that fitted all the legal rules and then handing over the land to rich men who paid their wages.  Everywhere, men where stealing the land and doing it all according to the rules. "
(The Long Winter, p. 99)

While we voice an intention (settle the land ... raise test scores), we may inadvertently leave lots of room  for squatters, birds of prey, insects and rodents to take up "residence."  Unless we follow through, follow up with persistent, sequential efforts that exercise our power of imagination,  our dreamship  may simply serve as a vacant structure, remaining hollow and ill-defined, or unpredictably super-charged and chaotic.   

To fulfill our dreams once named we do well to further exercise our willpower to revisit and revise and reorganize according to our current inspiration and good judgment.  We do well to take the time needed to allow wisdom within to make right choices ...  deftly detailing, comprehensively crafting, accurately articulating the nature of that which we intend.  

The more fully we practice detecting and articulating these authentic qualities, the more "real" our "dreamship" becomes.  Ultimately, its tangible presence invites us to assume our captaincy ... smell the salty air, board this magnificent vessel, assemble our crew, prepare to leave port and set sail for the journey of our lives! Only when we activate and sustain exercise of  our powers -will, order, wisdom, insight, judgment, enthusiasm (six to begin building with this week).

(How Dreams Really Do Come True, by Harmony Brook @Palladio High -Tenthyear).