“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”.
Henry David Thoreau
The dream you have of your future should spur you to be confident of yourself and see yourself the way you had wanted to be and not the way you are, presently. The dream you have about your future must have a great influence on everything you do. Your dream should shape the way you relate with others, the places you visit, the kind of books you read and the kind of company you keep.
The actualization of your dream has a lot to do with your imagination. Your power of imagination works most when you have a directional plan showing every step you intends to take in order to achieve your desired future dream. A dream without a mapped out strategy to assure its actualization is just a dream in futility.
Do you have a worthwhile goal or dream in life? Do you have mapped out strategies for its actualization? If your answers to the above questions are in the negative, then you are yet to have a dream. Go back to work; put your dreams in black and white. Pen down your major strategies for actualizing the dreams as well. Until this is done, you don’t have a dream yet.
You may be wondering. How do I live my dream? You live your dream by being convinced that your dream can become a reality. You live your dream by believing in your dream. You live your dream by acting as if it’s already a reality. Until you have confidence in your dream, nobody will buy into it.
The first step in living your dream is to follow the various directional strategies that you have designed towards the actualization of the dreams. This entails moving from stage A to stage B and from there to stage C, until your dreams become a reality. As you move from one stage to the other you should focus on the end result. This picture of the end result should be your major motivation. If you can have a positive picture of the end result, you will definitely remain undaunted when you are confronted with numerous challenges on the way.
Having a picture of the end result in mind is not enough; you should be ready to pay the price. The road to the actualization of your dreams is not going to be rosy. On the way are so many constraints. Discouragements from people you trust and respect, financial constraints, stress and fear of failure, lack of encouragement and intention to quit. All you need do is to refuse to listen to people’s suggestion that your dream is not a realistic dream. Go ahead, remain focus and pay the price. Do everything possible to actualize your dream. After all, many dream that were considered impossible yesterday such as airplanes, are today a reality.
You can achieve your dream. Plan for it, work for it, imagine its possibility and live your dream. You will get there!
Writer’s Profile
Ajiboro Ayodeji is a Chartered HR Practitioner based in Lagos, Nigeria. Tel: 2348027807452. Email: jibdej@gmail.com.
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