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Will achieving your life’s dream make you happy?

May 16, 2013 by Rosemary Leave a Comment

When I was 10, I wanted to be an archaeologist. Something about the King Tutankhamen treasures touring the country inspired me, and I desperately wanted to find dinosaur bones. Then at some point, I found out that archaeology involved a lot of fruitless sweating, kneeling in the dirt, and being bitten by insects. I moved on to dream of becoming a children’s book writer, which involved none of those things.

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Are you working toward a specific life’s goal, either personally or professionally?

Have you stopped to analyze the reality of achieving your goals?

For example, if one of your career goals is to become a famous speaker, giving keynotes all over the world for big-time fees, have you considered the travel involved? Time away from your family, hotel rooms, TSA inspections? Yep, that’s glamorous.

If your corporate goal is to bring in 10 Fortune 500 clients, have you thought through the realities of servicing an enterprise customer? Massive bureaucracy, expectations, slow decision-making…and reliance on a few large customers can be risky as well.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

The homework today is to review your goals, both written and unwritten. Take a half hour to visualize what your life would be like if you achieved them. Is it the life you want?

If not, you need new goals.

Author’s Bio: Rosemary O’Neill is an insightful spirit who works for social strata — a top ten company to work for on the Internet . Check out the Social Strata blog. You can find Rosemary on Google+ and on Twitter as @rhogroupee

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Filed Under: Business Life, Inside-Out Thinking, Strategy/Analysis, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Dreams, goals, happiness, visualization

Can You See the Future?

October 25, 2007 by Liz Leave a Comment

I've been thinking . . .

about the future.

I can see the future. I know where I will be.

It’s not some magic or hocus pocus. It’s knowing who I am and who I will be.

With decades of data on situations I’ve gotten myself into and choice I’ve made, how hard could it be? As time goes by, seeing the future gets easier. Hardly any new decisions come my way. Each new fork in the road looks a lot like one that I’ve stood at some time ago. I’ve got the experience to know which part of the fork is good for me and which part of the fork I will probably take.

So these days I choose my future rather than letting it happen to me. I declare my direction and set off to make my declaration a reality.

I know the bits of myself that make accidents happen. I’ve decided they don’t figure into my future plans. No arguing on that point. They “ain’t” going to happen. It’s my level of commitment that I’m using as my predictor.

Can you see the future? Sure you can. See it. Try it on. Find one that fits your dreams. Then make it happen.

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Filed Under: Motivation, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Ive-been-thinking, the-future, visualization

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