| Do you remember when you were a kid and the | | | | get what I want, so why bother putting a plan of |
| world was such an easy place to be living in and | | | | action together to achieve what I really want to |
| to understand. Everything was so straightforward. | | | | have. In any case, I don't really have time for all |
| The holidays were the highlights, school was ok, | | | | this day dreaming stuff. There are more urgent |
| at the age of six you knew who you were going | | | | things to attend to. |
| to marry and what you were going to be when | | | | What if you decided that what you really wanted |
| you were grown up. Somehow, somewhere that | | | | was a couple of million Dollars in the bank account, |
| absolute certainty of our life path became one big | | | | a beautiful four bedroom house with a garden, the |
| swamp of indecision. | | | | grey Mercedes in the drive way, a holiday home |
| Look at this statement and consider whether it is | | | | in Spain and a seat booked for the first tourist |
| true. People who have the same dream, in full | | | | flight into space. Wow. I can hear you say, I could |
| technicolour are actually able to realise their | | | | never get any of these. I know my limitations. I'll |
| dreams, whereas people who have many vague | | | | be lucky if I can raise a bond on a studio |
| dreams don't get anywhere? What do you think? | | | | apartment, car is out of the question because I |
| I myself have no idea what the correct answer is. | | | | can't afford to buy it, never mind all the road |
| However, what I do know is that most people | | | | worthy and insurance costs and as for a holiday |
| actually don't really have a clear idea of their life | | | | place to own, you must be kidding. That's the |
| forward. They kind of react to what is thrown at | | | | response to the suggestions of what we might |
| them. I once asked a person this question. What | | | | really want. So what do we do, we stop dreaming |
| is your strategy for the next ten years, or are | | | | and settle for mediocre. |
| you just going to drift along. He looked so | | | | But just say as an exercise, just for fun, you |
| shocked that I should ask a question like that. | | | | actually put together a clear map, a plan of action, |
| Logically, if one has no clear idea of what one | | | | a totally identified landscape of your dream that |
| wants, it is going to be really difficult to get that! | | | | you might have had in your first year at college |
| You go into a shop and you know that you want | | | | for instance. You put it onto paper, whether in |
| to possibly get a new shirt, but you are not sure | | | | words, or using pictures and drawings and you |
| whether you want long sleeves, formal colour or | | | | hang it in a space that you will always see, such |
| casual one, button sleeves or not and never mind | | | | as next to the bathroom mirror. You keep that |
| what colour. You have no idea. You walk into the | | | | dream in your mind and some time everyday, |
| shop thinking, when I find something I like, then I | | | | while you are brushing your teeth, you check all |
| will know what I was looking for. Does that sound | | | | the details that you have put down and think |
| right? And is it a good idea to treat your life along | | | | about it. |
| the same lines? If a job comes along that I might | | | | Eventually the dream starts getting to feel a bit |
| like, I'll take it. So what are the odds that the job | | | | more real because you have been looking at it so |
| you like will actually come along. You might not | | | | often. And then you start making career decisions |
| even recognise that its a job you might like, | | | | that start to fall in line with your dreams. Suddenly |
| because you don't really know what you want. | | | | you are looking out for promotion. You start to |
| What stops us from identifying what we want in | | | | work out exactly what job you want in order to |
| life. Do we think we are not worth it and | | | | earn a better package. And somehow, from |
| therefore its pointless to actually decide on what | | | | drifting, you suddenly have a plan. That could be |
| we want. Or, it's never happened before, I never | | | | something. |
