There are many inspiration messages that tell us, quite correctly, that we should pursue our dreams to find what we want on life. A dream gives you the direction and the impetus to move on in life. A dream helps you understand where you are heading when things get tough and provide words of motivation when you need support.
But are dreams just wishy-washy ideals that are difficult to obtain?
Your ideals can remain indefinite and vague unless you observe specific guidelines to ensure they represent exactly what it is that you really want in life. Once pinned down, these dreams can truly fire you up and give you all the inspiration messages you need to get things done.
There are six rules that will help you identify the direction your life should take.
Rule One: These Are YOUR Dreams And Nobody Else’s.
Allow yourself to be entirely selfish for a moment.
Let other people understand their own dreams. Of course, if you are in a relationship, it will help that you both have complimentary dreams. You should however have your own dreams and then discuss with your partner what your shared dreams are.
Let me just say here that negative dreams will not give you any words of motivation. Morals and ethics should be observed so a dream to murder or defraud another person would be inappropriate here. It does seem that we would not get the same satisfaction out of dreams that diminish another person.
You may have a dream to eradicate a group of politicians, for example, but (much as I may have some sympathy for this!) I would not encourage this.
It never seems to work to set your dreams according to another person’s ideas. For a long time I have used words of motivation to encourage myself to have dreams of lying on an exotic beach somewhere or perhaps on a cruise ship simply because this was expected of me. The truth is, however, that this is not what I want.
Yes, I would like to travel but not in this way. These are not my dreams, sorry.
But don’t listen to me – if your dream includes a beach or cruising holiday, write it down. If this gives you words of motivation, that’s fine. It’s your dream, not mine.
Rule Two: Dream Freely
Now we need to remove the restrictions you might have on your own dreams. Never think a dream is impossible or silly. If it will motivate you, gives you words of motivation, then it counts.
Who can say if something is unobtainable or frivolous? If you look back in history, you will see people achieving things big and small, no matter what the odds.
A dream only counts if achieving it would make you happy.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Rule Three: Don’t Worry About How You Will Achieve Your Dream.
Determine your dream, with its own inspirational messages, and you will find the method to attain it will reveal itself.
Jim Rohn in his book ‘Seven Strategies For Wealth And Happiness’ put it this way: “When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it. The answers, methods and solutions you need to solve the problems along the way will be revealed to you.”
Rule Four: Write Them Down.
Sit down somewhere on your own and quietly think about what you want out of life. As the ideas come to you, write them down on a pad of paper.
Once you have committed one dream to paper, you can release it and free your mind to consider the next idea. In this way you capture your dreams so you can reflect on them later.
In truth your life depends on these ideas and it would be disastrous to have them and then lose them again. If you are like me, you will have a sudden gush of ideas so writing them down means there is no chance they will be erased.
Don’t worry about a long description – just a word that will remind you will be sufficient. For example, if you dream of a trip to Las Vegas then just the words ‘Las Vegas’ should be words of motivation enough. You can always expand on this later. Try not to stop the flow of ideas.
Rule Five: Touch Your Dreams.
Once you have an idea of your dreams, why not get more information on them?
The Internet gives us access to great information on everything so we can discover details about our dreams that will help us see the dreams very clearly indeed. Such clarity makes the dream seem more real and this will help us achieve it. You will get so many inspiration messages from this.
But don’t stop there. As you travel around, why not go to places where you can get more information or even touch your dream?
Test drive the car, get the brochures, visit the house or do anything that will make your dream more real. Don’t worry about doing this, as you will find salesmen are delighted to take questions from someone who is enthusiastic about their product – your dream. Make it fun. And it is in their interest to give you words of motivation to achieve your dream!
I have always wanted to own a
TVR sports car and I have driven a few. On one occasion I was in a showroom talking to the salesman when he said, ‘It’s a nice day – do you fancy a test drive?’ We had a great drive around the countryside in the car of my dreams and I got loads of
inspiration messages.
Even that manufacturer of multi-million-dollar powerboats,
Sunseeker, were delighted to give me some brochures. The salesman there told me they had often sold boats to people who had initially just popped in and picked up a brochure.
Rule Six: Dream Big
A big dream will give you more inspiration messages. It will pull you towards it with greater power.
Dream as big as you like. No restrictions.
In the book ‘The Magic Of Thinking Big’ (See? Even the title says it), David J. Schwartz wrote: “So far as success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or academic degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking. How big we think determines the size of our accomplishments.”
It is good to have small dreams too. It is always fun to achieve these on the way to get your larger goals so it is wise to have a mix of both.
No matter how successful you become in life you will always need new dreams to provide inspiration messages and propel you forward.
You will find dreams provide the impetus and fuel to create a fulfilling life. Follow these six rules and as long as you find new dreams to pursue you will have the success you desire.
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