Most people only talk about following their dreams. The reality is, with the aim of really catapulting your life to a higher level you must make a decision to seize your dreams. To follow your dreams involves deliberating and conversation but to seize your dreams involves creating a strategy and action.
Resolving to seize your dreams means you are doing all that it takes to make your desires a reality. It says you are in control of your dreams. This requires relentless effort and commitment. To do this, you must move from pondering about it to working towards it.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. —Andrew Carnegie
It is crucial for us to understand that seizing our dreams suggests we will experience some obstacles, disappointments, and frustration. Nevertheless, we must go through them. To seize our dreams inside of us, we must start to think and act on where we want to be instead of where we currently are. We must be future-focused thinkers as opposed to present-focused thinkers.
This tactic can be challenging in the midst of rejection, disapproval, unfriendliness, and uncooperativeness. Thousands follow their desires without ever deciding to seize the dream. Desires become an actuality when we decide to make them happen.
At the pondering stage, we lack control of our outcomes because the dream is little more than a fleeting thought or wish that exists only in our mind.
In the possession or seizure stage, our dreams become a revelation, and it governs how we live our lives. It turns into something concrete and accessible to what is essential to creating the dream. Seizing our dreams is always challenging because it involves work and continuous action to move forward and live in it versus the dream living in us. Our dreams do not have to be an impossible part of our lives.
How to Claim Your Dreams
The following tips will help you to get on the road to claiming your dreams.
- Have a Support System. Associate yourself with those that have realized or are in the process of realizing their dreams, not dream takers. You are not on your own. There are other dreamers and doers all around you. Dreams are natural, and they are reachable. It is vital to be in the company of a constructive and supportive environment of like-minded people who motivate you to seize your dreams.
- Stay Motivated. Keep your mind on your dream seizing mission. Look at what is working and what is not working. Stay motivated by understanding the steps needed to successfully reach any goal (Read it HERE). Are you doing everything that is needed to advance you closer to your desires?
- Develop Your Strengths. Observe your strengths and liberally use them toward seizing your dreams. You possess all you need to seize your desires but understanding how to develop your strengths and use them appropriately is a crucial part of seizing your dreams. Realizing your needs allow you to make modifications and changes in your life to make your desires more accessible. Here are some tests to help you understand your strengths and weaknesses.
- Adapt Your Life. Live tenaciously. Live in a way that articulates your belief in your dreams. Be positive. Think purposefully about how you live your life.
- Stay Inspired. Be passionate about seizing your dreams. Your inner self must be productive and stimulate positivity in thoughts and actions. Connect yourself with people and things that boost your enthusiasm and keeps your inspiration high.
