5 Keys to Making Your Dream Come True
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
- Hill Dance Academy Theater
5 Keys to Making Your Dreams Come True
- Dream – You first must dream. That means you have aspirations, goals and aim toward something not previously there. In other words, set your sites on something up ahead. It could be bigger. It could be better. It could just be different.
- Associate Yourself with those who Dream, those who Share Your Vision, Those who Made Their Dreams Come True and/or Those who Believe in You. – As a Christian and a believer in Jesus Christ, I start there. What better example do we have? From there, surround yourself with positive, upbeat and uplifting go-getters. If you want to own your own business, get some business owners in your network. If you want to pursue law, hang out with lawyers, paralegals, and law students. Familiarize yourself with your dream and the people who can teach you, inspire and motivate you and assist you with your journey.
- Set Realistic Short-Term and Long-Term Goals – Stagnation and inactivity can make a dream evaporate. Short and Long-term goals help cancel doubt and fear while moving you closer to seeing your dream in reality. Short-term and long-term goals will fluctuate by the specific dream. But it’s important to verbalize your goals, document them, and chart your process. A short-term goal could be as simple as… “Tomorrow I will call 3 people who have similar dreams to find out what their first steps were in pursuing it.” A long-term goal could be… “By this time next year, I will have purchased enough equipment to start my own business.”
- Get Busy – The keys to “making” your dream come true is important because you have to put the work in. There are several definitions of make, but I like the ones that are simple and to the point. Produce! Bring into form! Cause to become! Bring into existence! To assure the success or future of something! This tells me that there is work to do. As Nike says, Just Do It!
- Believe it Can Happen – Again, if you’re like me, you’ll first register your dreams with God and believe that He’s backing you. Then you have to believe that you can make this happen. Maybe it will be easy. Maybe it won’t. But you have to believe that in the end, it will be what you saw from the beginning. Enjoy the process. I often say, ‘Failure is not an option.’ That doesn’t mean that everything will work perfectly. You’ll just find out that some things and some people aren’t a part of the equation. Chalk it up as lessons learned and experiences gained, not failures. Then move on… in the direction of your dreams. You can make your dreams come true!
