What If Your Dream Came to Life?
What if you could breathe life into one of your dreams?
What follows is step by step guide to help if you’re really interested in achieving your wish this year, set aside a block of time for the next few days, get yourself a notebook or open a file on your computer and give yourself the luxury of reflecting and seriously considering what dreams may come.
How to Fulfill Your Dreams
1. Select a Dream:
Think about the different dreams you have. In your imagination, step into each one of them, one at a time and experience what life would be like when you realize that dream. What do you see? Hear? Feel?
- What changes?What’s good about it?
- What’s not as good as you hoped?
- How might you change it for the better?
- After you explore the impact of having those dreams, pick one that you’d most like to bring to life.
2. Analyze what you need to do to make that dream come true:
- What skills and strengths are required for your goal?
- Which do you currently have?
- Which do you need to acquire? How can you acquire them?
3. What hurtles might present themselves:
- What might get in the way?
- How can you problem solve those potential obstacles?
4. Find a champion:
Find folks who can listen and respond, who can provide an outside perspective as well as cheerlead you. These may be people you know or you might join a local or online meet-up of people with similar goals. Or start your own meet-up. Set up meetings with them to discuss your dreams and bring them to life.
5. Create a Plan:
Just like making a business plan, create a reasonable, step-by-step personal plan with tasks, actions and deadlines along the way.
6. State your intentions publicly.
By sharing your dream out loud with others, you magnify your cheering squad many times. It’s like telling people you’ll stop smoking. The success rate rises dramatically because there are many others beside yourself that you want to avoid letting down.
Similarly, if your goal implies a new capability or accomplishment, start referring to yourself as such. I’m Jane the artist; Jim the author; Jen the marathon runner; Dan the pianist.
7. Find a partner to hold you accountable:
Meet with him/her in person, by phone, online at least weekly to review the actions you’ve taken and refine your plan on a regular basis.
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Dr. Sharon Livingston is a Bestselling Author, Master Coach and Coach Trainer, Prominent Marketing Researcher and prior president of QRCA – Qualitative Research Consultants Association..
Her TLC Fast Track Seminars have helped hundreds attain their professional coaching certification. She is the founder of Future Proof -- a proven, 7-Step Program to help people transform their careers, businesses and personal lives.
She’s interviewed 62,892 people for Fortune 500 clients leading to highly successful campaigns for diverse products – from Teddy Grahams to Nextel to Totino’s Pizza Rolls to Zelnorm Rx for Chronic Constipation to Gleevec for CML.
Articles either about or by Dr. Livingston have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Business Week and Adweek.
She was a finalist for the 2008 Enterprising Woman of the Year award. and was voted Outstanding Woman of the year, by the New England Family Business Association in June of 2015
Her TLC Fast Track Seminars have helped hundreds attain their professional coaching certification. She is the founder of Future Proof -- a proven, 7-Step Program to help people transform their careers, businesses and personal lives.
She’s interviewed 62,892 people for Fortune 500 clients leading to highly successful campaigns for diverse products – from Teddy Grahams to Nextel to Totino’s Pizza Rolls to Zelnorm Rx for Chronic Constipation to Gleevec for CML.
Articles either about or by Dr. Livingston have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Business Week and Adweek.
She was a finalist for the 2008 Enterprising Woman of the Year award. and was voted Outstanding Woman of the year, by the New England Family Business Association in June of 2015
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