Make Your Dreams Happen
Dreams. Hopes. Wishes. We all have dreams for our life, for our family, for how we would like for things to be in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years. We have hopes for our children for what they will do in life, what they will become. We have wishes. Some of our wishes might be small and others big. What do dreams, hopes, and wishes have in common?
To achieve your dreams, hopes, and wishes, you need to know one secret. What is the secret to making your dreams come true? One word changes everything.
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Goals. By learning how to set and achieve your goals, you will be able you make your dreams come true, make your hopes and wishes a reality. You don’t have to sit and day-dream your time away anymore. The secret to making your dreams come true is simple start setting goals today.
5 Reasons You Should Start Setting Goals Today
Goals Give You Focus
When you think about your dreams, hopes, and wishes for your life without a focus or a plan that’s all you have are dreams, hopes, wishes, and good intentions. The problems with good intentions is that many times they never get done. Goals give your dreams, hopes and wishes a focus. Goals show you what you need to do to make your dreams and hopes a reality.
You can start with a simple plan, but over time, if you set goals when you start to make major decisions in life you will see that your goals impact how you make decisions.
Set goals to give yourself focus today.
Goals Give You a Reason Not to Quit
Goals will give you determination and a reason not to quit even when the challenge is difficult. If you don’t have a goal and purpose for what you are doing, it is more difficult to stay motivated.
Focusing on goals for the long term is hard. You will need to use your focus and determination to not quit. When you set your goals, start with a “don’t quit” mindset no matter how long it takes to reach your goals.
Your Dreams Can Be the Inspiration for Your Goals
Once you set your goals, you can use your dreams as motivation to reach those goals.
One great way to stay inspired is to visualize yourself reaching your goal or completing your dream. If you dream of quitting your job and working from home, visualize yourself and your life as a work from home mom. Visualizing your dream will help you stay focused on reaching your goal.
Goals Give Your Dreams, Hopes, and Wishes Wings…
Goals are the wings that give your dreams, hopes and wishes flight. You can make your dreams come true and setting goals and having the determination to reach them and make your dreams come true.
Setting goals is not an instant fix. Some goals take months and even years to complete. Don’t lose hope, your dreams have taken flight. Your path to success is different from everyone else. When you reach your goals, think how happy you will be to tell the story of how you did it.
Goals Can Grow With You
Just like your dreams, hopes and wishes, your goals can grow and change with you. If your dream becomes bigger, then re-evaluate your goal and make your goal bigger.
You should be adjusting your goals at least every 90-days. Ask yourself are you moving toward your goals? Do you need to change your plans? If you reached a goal, should you set a new bigger goal?
If you want to make your dreams come true, the secret to making it happen is to set goals. Your goals will give you focus, determination not to quit, inspire you, grow with you and give your dreams flight.
Are you ready to start setting your goals? Crystal and Jesse Paine have teamed together to share how they set goals and reach goals in an online course, Make Over Your Year.
If you have ever wanted to learn:
- How to dream big
- Make your dreams come true
- How to set and define your goals
- The importance of accountability and encouragement to reaching your goals
- Why you need a don’t quit attitude to reach your goals
Make Over Your Year will teach you all these skills and some much more. If you want to start making your dreams come true, Make Over Your Year will give you to tools you need to set goals and get started.
Your turn…
How do you set goals? What is your why for goal setting?
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This is great… goals are so important for keeping you on track! How do you achieve your dreams if you don’t know what they are? Thanks for linking up with us at Welcome Home Wednesdays! Can’t wait to see what you link up with us next week!
Hi Betsy, I am working and refining my goals all the time.
Such a motivational post, Rachel! I love that you pointed out that goals grow with us. Some think that goals are end all and be all, very few realize that as we evolve so do our goals…and that’s ok! It’s ok to change our mind and focus on something else. As long as we’re bettering ourselves in the long run, we’ll be successful. Thanks so much for sharing this with us on #shinebloghop this week 🙂
Hi Maria, Thank you for sharing. Thinking that the goal is the end will limit us. Learning to grow and let my goals grow with me has helped me see a bigger vision.
Thank-you for this post! I’ve just recently been thinking more about creating goals and “end-visioning”. And I like how you said that goals can grow with us- they don’t have to be rigid and set in stone! Thanks. 🙂
Hi Brooke, I like your word “end-visioning”, because picturing our end result is a great way to set and create our goals.