Taking actions with your dreams

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We all have dreams. Things we want to do and places we want to go. As I drive around for work or when I am working, my mind tends to wander. I think about where I will be and what will I be doing 5 or ten years from now. Dreaming can be fun. But what is more fun is putting actions behind your dreams. Zig Ziglar says that only 3% of people have written goals. I think this is the first place to start. What do you want to accomplish? I have physical, relational, family, financial and spiritual goals. But it is always easier to start with one area. I think about where I want to be 5 years from now. That is my direction. Now what are the steps I need to take to get there? I break it down in to small bit sized tasks and do them one at a time.


I see people all the time talking about their dreams and focusing on what they can’t do instead of what they can do. I can get up every morning and compile a list of companies I may want to work for. I can sit down and design a business card. I can go to the bank and open up a business account and get a checking account for my dream business. I can make an appointment to network with someone who knows more about my dream job that I do and interview this person.

Taking action is key. I have heard it said, do the next right thing. What are you dreaming of doing or becoming? What are the 50 small steps to getting there? Who are you talking to about it? Share your story with us.

I once heard Les Brown say “On people’s death beds I never hear them complain about not reaching their dreams because they aimed to high, I hear them complain that they aimed to low. Aim for the moon because even if you miss it, you will be with the stars”

I recently read….okay listened to the book “Drive” The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.  Daniel Pink does an excellent job in presenting facts on how we are motivated and what the current “dangling the carrot” motivation theory actually does for us. 

Our current culture is all about incentives and compensation. According to Daniel Pink, the facts state that people can be the most productive when compensation factors are taken away. He does not argue against compensation but rather that by incentivizing a workforce you are injecting negative factors into your culture.  Incentives are merely temporary and will not secure a productive workforce.  He even makes case for cooperation amongst your colleagues rather than competition.

Google requires their employees to use 20% of their working hours and invest in a project of their choice.  Some of Google’s most productive creations have come from this concept i.e. Gmail. 

Early in the book Daniel Pink states his case with the Wikipedia phenomena as an example.  From that point on you will be hooked.  Let us know what you think….


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