Thursday, April 21, 2011

DREAM/GOALS

A dream is a vision, an ambition, a goal. It is a picture on one’s mind, of what one wants achieve in life. If you don’t have a dream then you don’t have a goal, an aim or a focus in life. Dream inspires creativity, it motivates one to action as all your effort & actions are slanted towards attaining your desirous future. Dream is a more and valuable mental picture that is required to be worked into a concrete & visible outcome. It is not an end rather a better means to an end. The end is to be happy and to be fulfilled in life.
To be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, Banker, Builder e t c. Are all dreams. Try to have your dream today it is worth having, you cannot do without it


Functions of a goal/dream
Goals direct your actions: It helps one to focus doggedly and tenaciously towards achieving the end.
It motivates to action: Goals wakes your dormant mind to work. If you have a goal it will compel you to work without relenting until it is achieved.
It inspires creativity: Having goals rouses your creativity. In your attempt to attain your stated goals you are forced to device a means.
Goals help to measure success: Goals help you to access your level of improvement and discover your shortcomings and work on them.
It tells you the extent you have gone in life. It also discloses your weaknesses


Characteristics of a goal/dream.

Specific: Your goal must be exact. (That is defined). It is either you want to go to school first then after you go into business. It should not be ambiguous.
Measurable: It must be a type you can measure its success at any point in time.
Attainable :It must be some thing possible not building a castle in the air, Not that you want to be a Rev. father but your have a wife and children.
It must be realistic and time bounding.
For you to achieve your goal/dreams, you must have reasons while you are pursing them.
The quality of reason you are able to build up will determine the intensity of your drive.

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