Top Strategy #5 of 7 Turning Dreams into Reality: Steps for Avoiding Sabotage.

Top Strategy #5: Avoiding Sinkholes and Quicksand on Your Journey to Dream Attainment.

Now that you have all the tools and resources you need at your disposal, you are ready to begin your incredible journey toward your dream goal. But before you do that, it is critically important to identify where you may run into roadblocks, sinkholes and quicksand. These are situations that could arise and throw you completely off course, sabotaging your efforts and creating a barrier to your dream attainment.

By identifying the situations, barriers and circumstances that can  up front, you can preplan how you will handle them when they appear. Knowing ahead of time what you to do will allow you to have a ready solution in your pocket when that moment arrives. And those moments will appear just when you thought you had everything conquered.

Example: Let’s use this blog challenge as an example. My desired outcome is to blog 31 times in 31 days. Barriers for me personally include time constraints with balancing an educational program I’m completing in conjunction with running a business, taking care of a 3-year-old, helping my 20-year-old, managing a household as a sole provider, etc.

My solution? To take one day, block out time and write the entire week’s blogs at once; I will then program each one to go out on the day I wish. 

By being aware of other demands and finding a solution ahead of time, I will be able to achieve the Blog Challenge Goal. And if a difficult situation does occur, such as my little daughter being sick and having to stay home, I can move that block of time to the next day, or get up early or work after she’s in bed. But once it’s done, I don’t have to think about it anymore during the week. This frees up my mind to focus on other tasks of importance.

Work it out now!

Tune in tomorrow for

Top Strategy #6: Silencing the Negative Self-Talk and Destructive Gremlins in Your Head.

Cheers,

Kathleen

Top Strategy 4 of 7: Collecting the Tools You Need For Dream Fulfillment

Top Strategy #4: Collecting the Tools and Resources You Need for Dream Attainment.

OK! We’re making progress! You’ve awoken you inner Dream Genie. You’ve reviewed you Master Dream List. You’ve evaluated your dreams to see if they are short or long term. And you’ve transferred two short-term 90-day dreams and one long-term yearlong dream into the SMART goal format.

And most importantly, you've discovered your BIG WHY--your important, passionate reasons for why this dream/goal must be achieved!

Top Strategy #4:

Now it’s time to review and align the tools and resources you need to achieve your SMART goal.

1.       If your dream goal is not SMART, you may want to put it away for now and choose another dream goal to focus on for the time being.

2.       If your dream is SMART, great! Let’s make a list of all the tools and resources you need.

a.       Which resources and tools are already at your disposal?

b.      What tools and resources do you need to gather?

                                                               i.      Mark down STEP ONE of your goal: gathering all the tools and resources.

3.       If you are trying to quit smoking, one step may be speaking with your doctor and family. These are people who need to know about the goal and can lend you support. You may also need tools, such as an online smoking cessation program, or products like nicotine replacements.

4.       You want to make sure you don’t start down the path of your SMART goal without having the necessary tools and resources. You would not set out for a road trip across the country without your map or GPS, cell phone, supplies, etc. Don’t start your dream attainment unprepared, or chances are you will get lost!

Tune in tomorrow for:

Top Strategy #5: Avoiding Sinkholes and Quicksand on Your Journey to Dream Attainment.

Cheers,

Kathleen

Strategy 1 of 7: Awaken Your Inner Dream Genie Before She Turns to Dust!

Top Strategy #1:  Reawaken Your Inner Dream Genie Before She Turns to Dust in the Bottle

To be able to realize a dream, you must be able to imagine it.  You must be able to see it happening so clearly, just as you imagined yourself flying to the moon when you were five years-old.  This may seem simple. But as adults, our dream machines are rusty.  Starting them up again can be a slow process. But it is critical to believing, once again, that anything, ANYTHING, is possible.

The first step to building up your atrophied dream muscles is to make a new dream list. OK, hear me here.  This is a “no-holds-barred, cut-loose, anything you could possibly want” dream list.  It’s fine to have things like a new car, or new carpeting. But, I really implore you to think like your inner five-year old.  I want YOU to want it all! Then write it down.  Allow yourself the pleasure of extravagant desires.  Allow yourself the gift of imagining life without any obstacles, barriers or real-world limitations.

It is only by allowing yourself to fully dream again, that you will stumble across the lost dreams of your passion, or your inner longings and true purpose.  If you do not allow yourself this luxury, you may ultimately find that you are aiming at dreams that are imposed on you by another … and that don’t truly belong to you at all.

Here are just a few things that are on my dream list: 

·         Have a full-time housekeeper, cook and gardener

·         Have a driver to take me everywhere I need to go

·         Travel to four exotic destinations a year, once every quarter

·         Reach and impact 1 million women in a positive way

Now, it’s your turn.  Get out the paper … get pretty paper or fun paper and a great pen.  Then just write whatever comes into your mind … reach high, reach wide, reach for everything you ever imagined. I want BIG, BOLD, AUDACIOUS DREAMS HERE PEOPLE!

Please let me know all the new dreams that you awaken!  Tomorrow, we’ll be exploring how to take those dreams and put them into a master goal list!  Boy, this is going to be fun!

TUNE IN TOMORROW: Monday, January 3, 2011 FOR:

Top Strategy #2:  Are You the Master of Your Goals OR Are You Executing Someone Else’s?

See you then!

Kathleen