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Happy New year everyone! I hope that 2016 will be fulfilled with great challenges and lots of happy moments!
Who would have said, we are already in 2016. I remember watching "Back to the Future II" thinking that October 21st 2015 would be SO far away! And yet, we are already here. I am 43 years old and I am writing down my wishes every year since I am 20.
At 21, when I completed my bachelor degree, my wishes were very specific. I wrote down in my journal: 100,000$ income. At the time, it seemed huge and unrealistic but kept on visualizing that 100,000$ salary mark. At the time, I was working on a 31,000$ salary as a project manager at a telemarketing firm and just could not wait to get to the next level. Than I joined a business consulting firm (Arthur Anderson, who became Deloitte Consulting) and was making 55,000$. My next move was than to join a multinational, this is when I reached the 100,000$ mark. But, that is not the end. I than adjusted my wish to 150,000$ salary. So be it. I started my own business consultant company and started making what I was wishing for and more. The funny thing is that is it was made without breaking my head. This is only to tell you that what ever you ask for, YOU CAN AND YOU WILL GET MY FRIEND.
5 easy tips to turn your dreams into reality:
1) WRITE IT DOWN
The first step is to right down what you want. Select precise words that will define very well what you want. Do not focus on what you actually do not want. For example; do not write; I do not want to be poor anymore, I do not want to be alone... Write instead, I want to have much more money than I can think of spending, I am with the ones I love... Write down your WANT list in a journal that you will keep next to your bed. Look at it every night before going to bed. Add comments as you go throughout the year.
2) COLLECT PICTURES TO HELP YOU VISUALIZE
Make it personal. You can also collect pictures of what you want. Put the pictures in the book you keep beside your bed but also, put pictures in your house. Where you brush your teeth or in your car. Put it somewhere you can see it. The more you will see those pictures (like a blank check of 1,000,000$), the more your dream will become part of your reality.
3) VISUALIZE YOUR DREAM
How does it actually feel? Visualize yourself with your dream achieved. Focus on your state of mind and your emotions. Go through the whole scenario. You receive an award? You sign in front of 40,000$? You are entering the arena with your team as a soccer player and people scream your name? You are talking in front of a thousands of people? You are playing with your kids in a park and you hear them laughing? You hug your spouse while waking up in the morning? Whatever it is that you are dreaming of, let it become real in your mind.
4) TAKE ACTION
Do a little something everyday that will contribute to your dream. You do not have to break your head too much. Just dedicate a little 15 minutes everyday into an action that will help you achieve your goal. Even the guy that won the loterie had to purchase his ticket! You got to have a plan to get where you want. Never seen someone doing nothing and achieve a lifetime goal. You got to get your actions into place to get where you want and yes it takes your energy and time. It is part of converting a dream into reality.
5) KEEP ON TRYING
Do not accept failure, just keep on trying. If a method does not work, just try something else. Do not waster your energy on talking about failures, just do it and keep on moving.
