A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.In this article Maxwell provides 10 questions to help YOU put YOUR dreams to the test:
A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person’s purpose and potential.
Or as my friend Sharon Hull says, “A dream is the seed of possibility planted in the soul of a human being, which calls him to pursue a unique path to the realization of his purpose.”
- The Ownership Question: Is my dream really my dream?
- The Clarity Question: Do I clearly see my dream?
- The Reality Question: Am I depending on factors within my control to achieve my dream?
- The Passion Question: Does my dream compel me to follow it?
- The Pathway Question: Do I have a strategy to reach my dream?
- The People Question: Have I included the people I need to realize my dream?
- The Cost Question: Am I willing to pay the price for my dream?
- The Tenacity Question: Am I moving closer to my dream?
- The Fulfillment Question: Does working toward my dream bring satisfaction?
- The Significance Question: Does my dream benefit others?
And... he provides 6 things to do to help YOU prepare for or define your dreams:
- Mental preparation. Read and study in areas of your greatest interest.
- Experiential preparation. Engage in activities in areas related to your interests.
- Visual preparation. Put up pictures of people and things that inspire you.
- Hero preparation. Read about and try to meet people you admire and who inspire you.
- Physical preparation. Get your body in optimal shape to pursue your dream.
- Spiritual preparation. Seek God’s help for a bigger-than-self dream.
Maxwell wraps up with a lovely quote from his agent, Matt Yates:
“A dream is what you desire if anything and everything is possible.”
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Powerful stuff indeed!
ReplyDeleteRemember the earlier post ?
http://wisdomslight.blogspot.com/2010/05/powerful-reinforcement-for-you.html
go back and read it again ;-)
Here are some additional quotes to re-enforce the message!
Think and Grow Rich (1938)
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!
p.18
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
p. 38
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
p. 54
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 53
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.
As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) by M. Nadarajan Munisamy
The Law of Success (1937)
The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons : Teaching, for the First Time in the History of The World, the True Philosophy Upon Which All Personal Success Is Built
Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
p. 109
Variant: Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
As quoted in Quote-A-Quote: To Your Success Health Wealth & Happiness (2005) by Michael E. Ruge, p. 38