Dreamers who dream in the past. Many people whose greatest
achievements in life are behind them. A person who dreams in the past is a
person whose life is over. That person needs to create a dream in the future in
order to come back to life. It is also people who still celebrate in getting
good grades, being prom king or queen, graduating from a prestigious
university, or being in the military. In other words, their best days are
behind them.
Dreamers who dream only on small
dreams.
These types of dreamers will dream only small dreams because they want to feel
confident they can achieve them. The problem is, even though they know they can
achieve them, they never do achieve them. These type of dreamers are often the
most dangerous. They live like turtles, tucked away in their own quiet padded
room. If you knock on the shell and steal a quick look in one of the openings,
they often take out and bite you. The lesson is let dreaming turtles dream.
Most are not going anywhere and that is perfectly fine with them.
Dreamers who have achieved their
dreams and have not set a new dream.
This is an example of someone who
has successfully achieved his dream and continues to live in the dream. “Twenty
years ago, I dreamed of becoming a doctor. I became a doctor and now I am just
bored with life. I enjoy being a doctor but something is missing.”
Dreamers who dream big dreams but do
not have a plan on how to achieve them...so
they wind up achieving nothing.
These people say, “I’ve just had a
major breakthrough. Let me tell you about my new plan,” or “This time things
will be different,” or “I’m turning over a new leaf,” or I’m going to work
harder, pay off my bills, and invest,” or “I just heard of a new company coming
to town, and they are looking for someone with my qualifications. This could be
my big break.” “Very few people achieve their dreams on their own. People like
this often try to achieve a lot, but they try to do it on their own. People
like this should keep dreaming big, find a plan, and find a team that will help
them make their dreams come true.”
Dreamers who dream big achieve those
dreams and go on to dream bigger dreams.
Most of us would like to be this kind of person. The network marketing business
encourages people to dream big dreams and achieve their big dreams. Many
traditional businesses don’t want people to dream personal dreams.
Killing Your dream
“Be aware of people who want to kill
your dreams. There is nothing worse than a friend or loved one killing your
dreams.”
There are people who may innocently
or not so innocently, say things such as:
“You can’t do that.”
“That is too risky. Do you know how
many people fail?”
“Don’t be silly/stupid. Where do you
come up with such ideas?”
“If it is such a good idea, why
hasn’t someone else done it before?”
“Oh, I tried that years ago. Let me tell
you why it won’t work.”
People who kill other people’s
dreams are people who have given up on their own dreams.
“People who dream small dreams
continue to live lives as small people.”
Questions to consider:
- What goals did you set for yourself when you were starting out?
- To be worth a million pesos by a certain age?
- To own your own business?
- To do a lot of traveling?
- To learn to play a sport or dance well?
- To gain a sense of inner peace?
- What do you consider your greatest accomplishment and how does that accomplishment measure up to your expectation of yourself?
- Do you consider yourself today the person you started out to be?
- If your Doctor were to tell you tomorrow that you were suffering from an incurable disease and had only a few months to live, what you most regret not having done?
- Where do you want to be five years from now and what would you like to be doing? How about 10 years from now? 20 years from now?
- Who are the people you admire most and what could you do to be more like them?
- What do you least like about your life right now, and how would you like to change it?
- Are you able to devote enough time right now to the people who mean the most to you?
- What would make you happy or, if you already consider yourself happy, happier than you are today?
- There may be obvious questions, but the answer are neither obvious nor easy, They require a lot of soul – searching and probably some fact – gathering as well, because you may not have the information you require to know specifically what you want.
To help you identify your dream. The
question are broken down into specific areas:
Where do I want to live?
A majority of the successful people
attribute a great measure of their success to a wise choice of place in which
to live and work.
What kind of work do I want to do?
There is no more need to be working
at a job you hate than there is to continue living where you don’t want to be
or the excitement had meant more than the money.
What interests do I want to explore?
The right location sets the stage,
the right career gives you the resources, but the end purpose of both is – or
should be – to enable you to pursue your passions coincides with your pursuit
of a living. Supposed you knew that you had only 5 years to live, How would you
live those years? What experiences would you like to have? What interests would
you like to pursue?
Did I marry the right spouse?
You can be living in the land of
your fantasies, holding down your dream job and enriching/inspiring your life
with the pursuit of your interests, but if you’re not sharing all this with
your love ones, your life will be as sour as month long milk. Part of the
process is to take a hard look at your personal life. Try marriage counseling
if you’re not happy.
What do I want to give back to
society?
The reward available to those who
help others can’t be bought with money. It’s a feeling that there’s a
streak/line of decency/politeness within you and we find most rewarding is when
we can offer direct help to individuals. We have never met a happy selfish
person. We need to have our skills in order to make ourselves a valuable member
of society. We can be living where we most want to be, doing what we most want
to do, pursuing the interests closest to our heart and sharing it all with a
partner’s who seems heaven – sent and still not fulfilled. If that description
sounds familiar to us, the restlessness we feel could be eliminated by a gift
of time and talent from us to society.
How many years do I have in which to
accomplish my
dreams?
A lot longer than we might think,
the longer we live, the better our chances for extending life well beyond
normal expectations.
How much risk can I stand?
How much is required if you’re to
realize your dreams? So with life ‘Nothing ventured’, nothing gained. You can’t
get to the fruit without going out on a limb/branch. In order to live an
exciting and rewarding life, you’ve got to confront our fears of change and
only by doing so will you ever discover that moving to a new location on
changing jobs or even professions. Isn’t all that big a deal? The more we risk,
the more we potentially gain. So how much risk is involved in chasing our
dreams? How great a price must we pay?
"The fulfillment of any dream,
no matter how small or big, requires an expense of mental, physical and
emotional energy."
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