Follow the Dreams

Opportunities Today : October 2007 Issue

Follow the Dreams

 

 

Ambition is the common trait of the present generation. Each one wants to reach the top, earn the most and enjoy the maximum. All this is great. A dream is the stepping stone to achievement but sadly enough everyone who dreams, does not accomplish. What is the reason? The truth is dreams excite, so people dream, but does the mere excitement make the dream come true? Much more is needed. What is the “more” which when missing makes dreams remain mere desires or wishful thinking? Well dreams give energy. All it requires is harnessing this energy to prepare realistic plans and follow the plans to achieve step by step one's cherished objective.

First step to failure starts with incomplete plan or even absence of plan. We are aware that all the great monuments and wonder structures are result of elaborate planning. So every dream must have a sound plan to move ahead.

Next to planning comes the detailed process or steps for achievement. While jotting down these steps, we come to know what other ingredients or help or even learning is required to go ahead smoothly towards our goal. Sufficient arrangements should be done for such vital components even before starting one's pursuit of goal.

The advantage of writing elaborate action steps would make one prepare well before moving ahead. Without such meticulous outline of action one is bound to have interruptions, halts and jerks in one's progress entailing avoidable delay and undue losses which can turn the easy things into hardships, more so as one is unprepared in the absence of proper outline of action.

Even though all advance thinking and preparations are done for a project or a goal, one can encounter unforeseen, may be uncontrollable interruptions or hurdles. Who can predict an earthquake, a flood, heavy rainfall, a power failure or even a transport breakdown, yet one can be strong enough to sail through these easily.

Thus in order to achieve one's dream the safest course would be to start with a plan, prepare for the steps involved, learn what is new in the process and even arrange for help when required. Through such systematic approach when one follows the dream it turns into reality bringing joy and happiness of achieving. So let's be realistic, pragmatic and perseverant to follow our dreams turning them into happy achievement!