How My Life Could Be A Dream - Simply
Posted: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
by Robert Worstell
Worstell Design LLC
It's a common idea people have to dream of being special - like winning the game-ending homer, being elected the homecoming queen, becoming insanely rich and successful, or even just having consistently happy relationships.
Of all these big dreams and personal goals, too many times these dreams just remain as dreams. For all our desire to aspire, they simply gather mental dust over the ages. Even though from time to time we dust them off to longingly look at them.
Did you ever think that could be reversed? What about changing those dreams into reality through action?
The most common problem to setting goals is believing the word impossible. Most people get hung up thinking "I can't do this." or "It's too hard." "It's too impossible." "No one can do this."
Of course, if everyone thought that way, there would probably never have been any inventions, discoveries, or breakthroughs which make up the list of human accomplishments.
Now you may recall the story of baffled scientists to tried to apply the laws of aerodynamics to the simple bumblebee. They all agreed that in theory it was impossible for the lowly bee to fly at all. However, no one ever got around to telling the bee that - so it continues to fly through its life with no difficulties at all.
The real self-imposed limit is where people suffer from dreaming outrageous dreams and then never act on them. The outcome is often that there are only dull, humdrum lives - with broken dreams and the only action is on TV sets.
Exactly as you limit yourself with ideas of self-doubt and failure will be the same ideas which keep you from taking any action toward your goals - and your dreams will then remain impossible, but only because you think they are and so take no real steps to achieve them.
Try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and write down some goals in your life. Under one header, list down things ‘you know you can do’. Under another header, write the things ‘you might be able to do.’ And under one more, list the things that that are ‘impossible for you to do.’
Now work out the steps you can see right now that would help you achieve that goal. Put them under each header according to how hard you think they are to attain or achieve.
Now work out the steps you can see right now that would help you achieve that goal. Put them under each header according to how hard you think they are to attain or achieve.
As you start getting more and more things done in the first column, you can work on getting more things done in the second column, as these will probably become more possible to do. As you get better at getting things done, you can look over that third column of "Things that are impossible to do" and see if you now start seeing how some of those might be able to get done.
Now in going through this process, you may find that those goals you once thought impossible are now not so dire and out of reach. Because you have been working on them in little bits, the impossible starts to look possible.
The point here is to not limit yourself. Simply break down any and every goal into doable steps you can start on today. Take your star-high goal and break it down into those columns above, then work these into smaller doable steps. Even the hardest steps can be accomplished as you break out the doable steps for these. You can now see the secret to making the impossible possible.
Those who only dream towards a goal and never work at doing the smaller steps only end up disappointed and disillusioned.
Skyscrapers, Airplanes, Television, Moon Landings - all these were originally thought of as impossible. Yet they are now factual and many are common place. Any dream can be made into a reality by simply breaking down those goals into smaller, more doable steps and then taking action to get them done.
Just keep dreaming, and keep your dreams polished, bright. Keep them constantly in front of you along with your "to-do" list of doable actions. Plan your work and work your plan. Just as you keep moving along this line, you'll find that really nothing is ever impossible as long as you keep to this strategy - and keep in action.
Because your life could be a dream - if you really you want it to be.
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Known for extensive writing in self-help and personal development, Dr. Robert C. Worstell (see author interview) has just published a New Age fiction book, "The Dreamer Dreamed" which explores the concept of how life could be a dream, among other ideas. This book employs the understanding of various spiritual meaning books and research he's conducted over the last 35 years but using the fiction genre as a research vehicle.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)It's true what you say about the small steps. Big dreamers also have to be very pragmatic.
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