How to make your Wildest Dreams a Reality (Part One)
by Craig Lock
How to make your Wildest Dreams a Reality...and still stay a little bit sane# (Part One)
#* enough "s's"
By Craig Lock
"Life is about finding, then following the dream... and one's dream/vision comes to reality through believing in yourself, making the commitment and then creating it."
According to Bill Gates there are 3 keys to success in any new venture:
1) Being in the right place at the right time. (You could well be already there!)
2) Have a vision of where the industry/business you're working in is going!
3) Taking Massive and Immediate Action! (It is time to act!) "The future belongs to those who believe in the quality of their dreams." Was it Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, the famous German poet and philosopher who said those wise words?
Here are my 15 steps to fulfilling my wildest dreams...
1. KNOW YOURSELF. Know and accept your weaknesses and faults (we all have them), but even more so your strengths, abilities and gifts. Build on your strengths and try to minimize or improve on your weaknesses. An honest, objective analysis of yourself is the first step in preparing you for success and realizing your dreams. Celebrate you for just being you, a unique creation. Aim for mental clarity about what you most want out of life. Think about it and write it down. If it's happiness, what do you mean by happiness: a sense of belonging, recognition, independence, love, money or security? If you don't know where you are and where you want to go with your life, how will you ever get there? Aim at nothing and you're sure to hit it.
2. GET PASSIONATE. Don't apologize for getting passionate. What excites you the most? If you are not enthusiastic and excited about what you're doing, your path in life, you'll never get others to share your dream. Once you find your passion, you will have found your POWER, MEANING and PURPOSE in life.
3. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH POSITIVE PASSION Always be aware. Negative people will poison your dream faster than anything else. Motto: "If you can't be positive, shut up!" Try and stay positive...even in the face of negativity.
4. ACCEPT FROM THE START THAT YOU WON'T PLEASE EVERYONE.
You're going to be misunderstood, misquoted, hurt some feelings, perhaps even lose some friends (for the time being). Motto: "What other people think of me is none of my business!" Repeat this statement to yourself, especially when you doubt or feel discouraged about your chosen path..
5. ALWAYS BE YOURSELF To thine own self be true. (Shakespeare's "Hamlet", act I.3) This is supremely important, no matter what the world may think of you. The masses are conditioned to mediocrity and other people's success can make them not feel inferior for their own insignificant little lives. Accept yourself. Learn from others -- but don't be intimidated by them, or pretend to be someone you're not; because..."We are most effective when we're being ourselves."
6. DON'T BE SCARED OF MAKING MISTAKES The only real mistake is one from which you learn nothing. Motto: "Far better to try something and fail, than try nothing and succeed!"
7. ACCEPT THAT IT WILL NEVER BE EASY Realizing your dream may be the hardest, most uphill thing you'll ever do. A truth ... "You can't coast uphill." The key ingredient in success is never giving up. Keep on keeping is 99% made up of failures" (remember Edison's persistence!).
8. STAY HUMBLE (no matter how successful you may be). Don't ever think you've made it and arrived - there's always a lot ahead, more to do, higher mountains to climb. Motto: "The greatest way to do our thing has yet to be discovered!"
9. DON'T UNDERESTIMATE YOURSELF There is incredible power in yourself (in the form of the unique human mind), but far more so in the forces of God, the Universe. Make these "spiritual laws"work for you by living your life in harmony with these natural forces. Like positive energy attracts like. Enough "spiritual" thoughts! Back to the "real world" and you.
Avoid developing an inferiority complex (Who am I, a 'nothing'?"). Don't be filled with feelings of self pity ("nobody likes me"), or think "I can't do it". These negative thoughts will steal your dream from you.
Go for your dream
As The Nike ad says,
YOU CAN DO IT!
Craig Lock
http://www.craiglock.com
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A peaceful and happy long weekend to you Americans. Congratulations and celebrations to your great country.
Craig
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