Think of some of the big dreams you have had in your life. You score the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl. You win the Miss America pageant. You're a huge success at business and employ all your relatives. Everyone has these dreams at one time or another.
Maybe you dream a little smaller and could be satisfied with less - paying off the mortgage, retiring 5 years early, driving that special car you've had your eye on, seeing your child come home with all A's. One of my favorite dreams is to have a winter home in the Caribbean to escape the cold New England winters. There are a million things to wish for.
You might be thinking, well that stuff will never happen to me. I just don't have that kind of luck, or I was born poor and I'll die poor, or some such defeatist attitude. Well cheer up Bucko, because if that's what you think you'll get, then that's what you'll get!
If you think achieving some of these fantasy goals is impossible you are totally wrong. Your life can change greatly for the better if you will have the courage and resolve to decide to make it that way. Take that word impossible and banish it from your life forever.
"If man were meant to fly, God would have given him wings." Less than a hundred years ago this statement was widely believed. Now, thousands of people make airplane and jet flights daily. What was thought to be impossible is now commonplace.
Look at the hundreds of inventions and medical breakthroughs and technological advances that are in widespread use today. A man on the moon? Ridiculous! A few short years ago many of these things were thought to be impossible. People with vision and a desire to realize their dreams made all these things happen.
Make up your mind that you CAN make your fondest dreams come true. If you limit yourself with self-doubt, and self-limiting assumptions, you will never be able to break past what you think is not possible. If everyone had self-limiting beliefs and a lack of self confidence, this world would be a much poorer place.
Try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and divide it vertically into three columns. In these columns, write down some of your life goals. Under one heading, list the goals 'you know you can do'. Under the second heading, write the things 'you might be able to do.' And under the third, list the goals that are 'impossible for you to do.
Look at this paper every day and strive to achieve the goals that are under things 'you know you can do'. Check them off when you are able to accomplish them. As you slowly check off all of your goals under that heading, try accomplishing the goals under the other one that reads things 'you might be able to do.
As you begin checking off some of the goals under the 'might be able to do' column, you should feel your confidence begin to rise. Move some of the 'impossible to do' items into the 'might be able' column. Give some serious thought to how you can actually accomplish these goals that you previously thought were impossible.
As you go through this process, you may begin to realize that things you thought were impossible to do might just be something that you can make happen. The impossible CAN become possible.
Aim high, and work towards those goals by breaking them down into smaller sections that can be knocked off a little at a time. Let your imagination work for you as you discover newer and better ways of grabbing what you want out of life. Work hard towards your goals and never give up.
We've all heard of Thomas Edison's statement that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. It's true. You won't make your dreams and goals come true without some old-fashioned hard work. But, anything worth having, is worth working for. And if you earn something yourself, the achievement is all the sweeter.
So, dream big and set some huge goals. Don't settle for second best, go for what you REALLY want. Push those doubts and thoughts of limitation from your mind. You can do the impossible if you really put your mind to it. Dare to try and you will succeed.
By: Ernie Reynolds
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