Wednesday, June 24, 2015

You Can't Lead Someone Else's Dreams!

How many times have you heard someone speaking about their dream and how important it is to them, or heard someone attempting to motivate you by urging you to have an essential dream? Perhaps the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is the individual most remembered by his dream and his famous "I have a dream," speech, that motivated so many to better realize the significance and importance of the civil rights movement. However, while our dreams lead us to set meaningful goals, it is important to realize that we cannot simply follow someone else's dream, regardless of how meaningful and significant it may be, but we must find our own driving force that motivates us to do what is most essential to our achieving our most pressing goals. For example, those seeking to become a homeowner, must realistically and thoroughly examine what's most important to them, and not what others want, or seek. Making yourself happy is selecting the home that best serves your overall needs, including the price you can afford, location, and the house itself. Every real estate professional, as well, must identify what the main objective of their career means to them, and rather than merely do what others do, maintaining your highest degree of personal, absolute integrity.
 
1. Meaningful goals must be personal in nature. That does not mean that they only impact us, but rather that they are a out what is most important to us personally. Our goals must address some specific needs, either those that are immediate in nature, or longer term. What motivates each of us does not have to be in accord with things that motivate or drive others. It is our dreams that move us to set goals, and these both direct our vital vision.

2. In considering and understanding dreams, it is most important to consider what truly motivates us to do whatever we decide to do. While others may have dreams that motivate them, and even may cause others to consider options and alternatives, dreams only gather their power when we make them our own and personal. Unless they are personal, they do not attain the power to be internalized, and therefore drive us towards specific ends and addressing certain actual or perceived needs.

3. When a dream is powerful enough to cause us to persevere and persist in our pursuit of goals that we find important, they create an inner strength and fortitude that makes us care more, do more, try more, and be more persistent. Think about those things that most motivate you to move forward and stretch your limits. Whenever we expand our comfort zone, we are able to do more, and thus when our dreams are important enough to us, we are far more willing to do more actual stretching.

There is no doubt that dreams are one of the most important driving forces. However, they only have this power when they are things that are truly meaningful to us.

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