Achieving Your Dreams!
We all want to improve our lives. There isn’t a person alive that at some point hasn’t had dreams and aspirations of what they wanted their life to be like. I am here to tell you that no matter what those dreams and aspirations are you can achieve them. The whole point is that you have to make it happen. Life doesn’t give free handouts.
This sentiment probably has not been put more succinctly then by Dianne Houston. She has been quoted as saying that “Only some people get what they want. These are the people who show up to get it.” Do not take this quote to mean that there is a hand out, showing up means that you are putting forth the effort.
It is a basic human truth that each and every one of us is motivated. Motivation really is a human trait. The main problem that most people face though is that they do not really know what it is they want. Think about it, in the course of your life how many times have those dreams changed? Not sure, then sit down right now and make a list.
On this same list, write down what you did to achieve those dreams. The point that I am trying to make by having you do this is to see that you are capable of getting what you want. And that at some point in your life you knew what it took to get it. Now as an adult, it is no different. If there is a promotion that you want, or a raise that you feel you deserve what are you going to do to make sure that you get them? My mom loves to live by the saying, “What are you willing to sacrifice to get what you want?” As far as I am concerned you do not need to sacrifice anything. But you do need to know what it is that you want.
Once you know what your goal is, you need to be thankful. Be gracious for where you are and what you have. That is the key to getting what you want. The next step that you take should be to make a plan. That plan now needs to go into action. Think about a football game, the team that showed up to play wins. The team that just hung out on the field expecting to win looses.
Despite what some people say, no one is born with a silver spoon in their mouth. It takes work to achieve dreams. Remember that your dreams are not necessarily those of others. So just because it seems like they have it all, they may only have what you want not what they are after.
Do not let the obstacles that life will put in the way discourage you from going after your dreams with diligence. Giving up will get you no where; learning from a failure and then improving will get you where you want to be. Make sure that you are on the team that came to play, the person that showed up to get what they want. Life is too short to sit on the sidelines or watch the grass grow in the middle of the field you and only you decide what your life will be.
