The Secret to Living Your Dreams: Five Techniques to Living Your Dreams!
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Free PDF Download Career Advice: Five Secrets to Creating More Career Opportunities in the 21st Century! - By Ed Sykes |
How many times in our lives have we said the following?
If I had more time, I would have acted on my dream of...
If I didn’t need this job, I would have pursued my dream of...
If only I had (you fill in the blank) ten years ago, I would have achieved my dream of...
I am sure you can add a dozen more "If I" dream statements. There are people going through life everyday working at jobs they hate, in situations they tolerate, and living a life that they disown because they settled for an "If I" mindset.
What is the secret between the person who is achieving his/her dream life and the person who is just wishing for a dream life? The following are five techniques for living your dream and achieving more in life:
1. Understand Your Options and Live Your Dreams
We have options in our life. Do we follow the road everyone else is taking or do we travel the road less traveled to achieve our dreams? We have the option to look at life’s challenges as a way to find creative solutions or to look at challenges as a negative barrier to achieving one’s dreams. Take the positive option to develop yourself and achieve your dreams.
2. Fight Your Fears and Live Your Dreams
Most fears we constantly think about and which sometimes paralyze us never happen. Yet we will spend 75-90% of our thoughts on our fears. F-E-A-R is nothing more than False Evidence Appearing Real. Get the facts and act accordingly. Let’s "flip our mental script" and concentrate on the upside of any situation so that we can concentrate on achieving our dreams. Fight though your fears and build your courage to live your dreams.
3. Concentrate on Your Goals and Live Your Dreams
If you are not living your dream, you are living someone else’s dream. How do you make your dreams come true? Create and concentrate on your goals to achieving your dreams. Start with your main goal and then break this goal down into smaller pieces so that you can digest and act on these goals. Most importantly, write down your goals and keep them in a place where you can see and read them any time of the day. This is important because there will be times you will feel you are not achieving your goals and will need a "dream booster shot" to keep you motivated toward achieving your goals.
4. Eliminate Barriers to Living Your Dreams
You need to eliminate barriers to living your dreams. This could be eliminating expenses, gaining knowledge, or gaining the technology for living your dreams. One of the biggest barriers to eliminate could be very close to you. This barrier to living your dreams could be your family, your friends, and your co-workers who create reasons why you shouldn’t live your dreams. They may not even realize they are a barrier to your dreams by their words or actions.
Some people are living in their own misery and want you to give up your dreams and join them in their misery. Remember, some people may not have high expectations for themselves, much less for you. So when you express your lofty dreams, they will look and speak to you expressing their low expectations for you. Break away from them and their misery so that you can live your dreams. Bond with people of like mind so that you can form a synergy and have a positive group of people who are helping each other and moving toward their goals and living their dreams.
5. Act on Your Dreams!
Your dream will be just that...a dream unless you act on it. An amazing thing happens when you keep acting on your dreams. You will keep growing stronger and will become better prepared to achieve even more in life.
Take the time to apply these five techniques for living your dreams and you, too, will achieve more in life.
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About the Author: Ed Sykes RSS for Ed's articles - Visit Ed's website Ed Sykes is a highly sought after author, motivational speaker, and success coach in the areas of leadership, motivation, presentation skills, customer service, and team building. You can e-mail him at mailto:esykes@thesykesgrp.com or call him at (757) 427-7032. Go to his web site, http://www.thesykesgrp.com, and signup for the newsletter, OnPoint, and receive either free ebook, "Empowerment and Stress Secrets for the Busy Professional," or "Secrets of Outstanding Customer Service." Click here to visit Ed's website. How to Give an Acceptance Speech How to Give an Outstanding Acceptance Speech Seven Presentation Secrets Learned from the Academy Awards Are You Singing Your Song of Success Five Secrets to Following Your Dreams and Achieving More Success in Your Life Bad Customer Service Is Not So Funny Five Secrets to Giving Outstanding Customer Service Ten Action Steps to Motivate Yourself to Great Accomplishments JumpStart Your Employee Motivation Ten Secrets to Empower Your Team |
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