Regardless of their zeal or fear, the same question drives every person with a dream: Can I achieve it? Sadly, most people have no idea how viable their dream is. They hope to achieve it, yet hope is not a strategy. What people need is a way to test their dream. He gives readers practical and powerful direction for their lives by leading them through ten questions that will help them create a clear and compelling pathway to their dream. What would you like to know about this product?
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People who have skills which complement yours — who are better at various things than you are. They will offset your weaknesses so you can achieve more. To recruit such an ideal dream team, you have to become skilled at transferring your vision to others. You need to get them to buy into your dream which is often a challenge. This will require credibility and conviction. The transfer of a dream or vision from one person to another always happens at three different levels: 1. The first level is logical.
To be credible, your dream must be realistic and workable. If your dream does not address all the realities, nobody will take it very seriously. And not only must the overall objective be logical but the proposed strategy must be sound as well.
Good strategy breaks the dream down into manageable parts which can be assigned to different people or groups. The emotional level is second. Once people understand the logic behind your dream and connect with it emotionally, you can then make it real by bringing it to life visually. You do this by painting a vivid word picture of what the results will look like in the flesh.
When people see the dream in visual terms, they can then sign on and get to work trying to derive those sought after benefits. In almost every area of human achievement, it takes a team to realize a dream. You have to get other people involved in order to do great things. And the bigger and more embracing your dream is, the greater your need to get others involved as well.
Fortunately, quality people are always attracted to big dreams. The challenge is for you to connect with these people, transfer your vision, invite them to get involved and then step back and let them do their stuff. I remember being afraid when I was a soldier. But this is your moment. We are counting on you to rise to the occasion and achieve everything you have set out to do. The fate of the free world rests on your shoulders. May this be your finest hour.
It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it. Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people. The costs of a dream come in all shapes and sizes, but there are three costs which are common to almost every dream: 1. You will have to pay the price of criticism from people who matter — people you respect who will honestly advise you that you have inadvertently gone off down the wrong track.
You must pay the price of overcoming your fears — which is inevitable when you move out of your comfort zone and push the edge of the envelope. You have to be willing to try new things, even if they might not work out. You have to be willing to pay the price of hard work —of keeping going even when everyone else is relaxing. There is a very direct dynamic at work here: Dreams never work unless you do. You have to put in enough effort to make the right things happen. You have to do whatever it takes to succeed.
Only you can answer the cost question. This question differentiates the uncommitted from the committed. To achieve your dream, you must be committed, and even after all the hard work involved, there are no guarantees you will realize your dream.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. People who achieve their dreams keep moving closer and closer to their dream day by day. Or put another way, if you have tenacity: 1.
You will recognize that quitting is more about who you are than where you are — and you will keep on moving closer and closer to your dream all the time. They just keep moving forward.
You will watch your vocabulary and choose your words deliberately — because what you say is important and can move you towards or away from your dreams.
You will stop waiting for perfect conditions to arise — and instead forge ahead taking advantage of whatever conditions currently exist.
They get busy trying to swim out to meet it. Successful people are positive. They get things done. They recover from short-term setbacks and concentrate on winning the big prize. To be tenacious, you need to win the battle for your mind and then keep working at it. You will keep looking for the resources you need — and therefore move forward with confidence. Tenacious people realize resources always follow a vision, not the other way around. They move forward in the belief good things will come together as required.
The cumulative effect of these day in and day out actions will be you will get to where you want to go. You will remind yourself that even when you assume you have exhausted all possibilities, you generally have not — and therefore you should hang in there and keep at it.
You have to ask yourself whether that gap will be a source of fulfillment or frustration for you. By contrast, if bridging that gap brings you a sense of fulfillment, then every day willbe a new adventure to be enjoyed.
For the pursuit of your dream to be sustainable, you have to find ways you can turn that gap into a source of ongoing fulfillment. How do you do that? There are several potential approaches you can try: 1. Differentiate between your dream and its realization — and temper your idealism with some decent doses of realism. Your dream exists in an ideal world where anything less than perfection need not be tolerated.
Realization of that dream happens in the real world where things get messy. Match the two together a little closer and you will feel more fulfilled. A big gap will be par for the course. Progress is always piecemeal and cumulative.
Be patient as you live your dream. Derive satisfaction from the journey itself rather than giving yourself permission to relax and enjoy it only once you get there. Stay alert. Look for new door way sand interesting insights. Have fun and you significantly enhance your tenacity. Neither optimists or pessimists are percent correct. Life is always a balance of good and bad. They tend to cancel each other out over the long term. The question we need to ask ourselves is this:.
Initially, choose your goals wisely, if you want to change them into reality — they must be realistic for the present situation. You need to find the perfect balance between reality and fantasy. Put Your Dream to the Test is a functional masterpiece — it challenges its readers to reach beyond the restrictions of today. John Maxwell regularly repeats the ten vital question that every individual need to answer.
If you want to achieve your objectives, be prepared to respond to all of them. Only if you are able to answer at least half of these questions positively — your idea can be seen as realistic. It seems that some people avoid fulfilling their dream , and they find different excuses for not trying to achieve it.
They may think that dreams are not for ordinary people, or that their dream is not big enough — or too big. For those that tend to think this way, John Maxwell encourages them to stop finding excuses and start acting. The timing will never be perfect for you to pursue your dream, so you might as well start now.
Is your dream in focus? This chapter depicts the story of a person who had such a clear and compelling vision that he fulfilled his dream. According to Maxwell as long as you have a clear vision, the strategy will follow.
The dream has to be clearly defined in order to be pursued. Maxwell emphasizes the importance of detailing our goal and teaches us the difference between general and specific goals with a few simple examples, such as:. Maxwell gives us a few tips that will allow us to better define our goals. He indicates that we need to write a detailed description of the dream.
The next step is to quantify it, measure it, and write the dream succinctly. Take some time to reflect upon it and make sure that it will be in front of you every single day.
When we think about dreams we tend to associate them with fantasy, something that is not real. According to him, dreams and reality must meet.
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