Do you ever wonder how you can make the things you wish for become reality? So often, our wishes seem far removed from what happens in our day to day lives, it can be discouraging.
The steps for making wishes reality are not secrets; but, they are hard.
Being hard means few people actually ever see their wishes become real. Yet, what makes this process hard can actually also make it rewarding, exhilarating, and gives life meaning. So jump in, and see how amazing your life can be!
Here are the simple steps to make your dreams come true:
- Make a list of all the thing you currently wish for. Really let yourself dream. Take off the shackles that say, “That isn’t possible.” or “I could never do this.” Let yourself explore and give voice to all those silent wishes.
- Next, ask yourself what would it take to make this come true, for each wish on your list. You might not know “how” to make most of them happen, but you do have an idea of what commitment or changes you might have to make to even get started. Is the cost time, money, change? Be as specific as possible without trying to plan your actions. If your wish is something so outside your current reality then you have to assess what is in your reality that could move you that way. (For example, if you currently make $50,000 a year and your wish is to be making $1 million then maybe your “what would it take?” answer is find a better paying job that has some freedom for me to start working on my own business on the side.
- Now comes the hard part. Once you have given an assessment of what it would take to achieve each of your wishes you have to honestly assess what you are willing to do. The reason most people do not make their dreams come true lies here–they either never assess what it will take or they are not willing to do what it takes. You see, only people who wish for something with such intensity that it drives them to action can ever achieve their dreams.
- Let go of the wishes you are not willing to pay the price for. Click To Tweet Let’s face it, some things just are not worth the cost. If to have a certain dream job you need to move away from your family, and living near your family is one of your highest life priorities then decision made–at least for that specific job. Once you determine the cost is too high for any particular wish, cross it off your list and resolve to STOP wishing for it. Wishing for things you are unwilling to suffer for is a waste of time and worse leaves you feeling like your life is not how you want it. And when you feel life is not serving you, you then become less able to put successful effort into other endeavours. Stop this snowball before it gains speed.
- Make a plan and start taking action toward achieving your wish every day. Very few successful people achieved their dreams on a rocket ship. They made their dreams into reality one day at a time, one step at a time. You can’t know what it will take 10 steps down the line, but you can take the first step, now.
Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes.
~Washington Irving – 1783-1859 Author, Biographer, and Historian
You might think these steps seem easy and wonder why I said at the beginning of this blog that although they aren’t a secret they are hard.
What makes these steps hard?
You do. I do. We do. We allow everything else in our lives to get in the way of simply moving on our dreams. Click To Tweet We have excuses. We have commitments. We have distractions.
If you follow these steps and commit even 30 minutes each day towards moving on your dream you will be amazed at how far you get and how many of your wishes become real.
Make a plan and start taking action toward achieving your wish every day. Click To Tweet
