Dreamers and Goal-Setters
No doubt you have heard of dreams and goals before, right? Many people just place dreams and goals into the same basket, but the fact is, they are quite different.
Dreams are things that many people have. People will say that they dream of being wildly successful and incredibly rich. But they leave it at that. They are vague about the dream and don’t really have any serious intention of making that dream a reality.
And so, it just remains a dream.
On the other hand, goals are great achievements that people create with specific detail…with every intention of making happen!
Introducing the dreamers and the goal-setters
As great as goals sound, in our society today, the majority of people are dreamers! They have a dream list – in their mind – of things they would like to have in their life. But they don’t really give these dreams much thought and believe that they may just happen somehow.
Examples of things dreamers say might be:
• “I want to win the lottery!”
• “I want to be famous, but I don’t know how!”
• “I’d love to be rich, but don’t know how that will happen.”
• “It would be great not to have debt, but if it’s meant to be, it will happen.”
Any of that sound familiar to you?
Many of us are dreamers because we’ve been conditioned to think that things are “too hard”.
Many of us were bought up to believe that to make great money, you have to have extraordinary talent or ability.
Many of us were also bought up to believe that success and money only come to them if they trod all over other people.
There is a lot of negativity surrounding the sorts of dreams many people have. And as a result, people don’t get serious about their dreams. They don’t get serious about turning their dreams into solid, specific goals.
On the other hand, goal-setters acknowledge that they ARE deserving of the things they want and they know that they can get what they want if they know what they want and are willing to take action.
So who are you?
Are you a dreamer or are you a goal-setter?
If you’re a dreamer and you desperately want to effect change in your life to bring your dreams to reality, TAKE ACTION!
Think about what you really want your life to be like, and then start DOING things to make it happen.
And remember this fantastic quote – another favourite of mine – from Harvey Mackay:
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”
Start turning your dreams into goals that WILL happen TODAY!
