“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
Dreams v’s Goals
Dreams differ from goals in that your Dreams are your big goals. For example retire at 40, travel the world. These are your dreams. How you get there are your smaller goals. (See 6 steps to achieving your goals)
Obviously only you can decide what you want your Dreams to be, but here we look at how you can make them real. And how you can make them real is by using a technique called visualisation.
The Power of Visualisation
Visualisation is simply turning an idea into a picture or a chart. Visualisation is where you ‘see’ your Dreams through pictures and words – it’s about making your dreams ‘real’ by grouping together similar pictures of the things that represent your dreams to you.
Let me demonstrate this for you. Say you want to buy a new car. Let’s say it’s a BMW. You collect brochures of the model of BMW you want, choose the colour of the car you want, the types of wheels etc etc. And then…..
Suddenly, every car you see on the road is a BMW in the exact same colour and model as the one you want! But the funny thing is, you’d never noticed them before. This is caused by the Reticular Activating System of the brain. Essentially its because in your subconscious, you become more aware of your environment and aware of the things you want.
The same applies to Dreams and Visualising your dreams makes them more real.
And if your dreams are real, you’re more likely to achieve them.
How To Create Your Dream or Vision Board
A Dream Chart is basically a collection of pictures that inspire you and make up your dream. You can add photographs, cut pictures from magazines or brochures or simply download and print them out from off the internet etc. Cut these pictures out and paste them onto a large sheet of paper or onto your notice board. You want to position your dream chart somewhere where you’re going to see it often. You don’t want to be putting it into a scrap book and putting it away on the book shelf to gather dust. You need to keep your dreams alive.
Keep your dream chart or vision chart very prominent. Whether that’s your on the wall of your office or behind your bathroom door, you need to make sure it’s somewhere you see this at you look at it often.
What to include in your dream chart
Only include pictures which represent your Dream. Take the picture at the top of this post. Where is it? What’s there? How much money will you need to get you there and fund your lifestyle? Select the pictures which most closely answer these questions for you.
Say you’re Dream is to own a Porsche 911 get together pictures of the exact model and colour that you want. The closer your dream chart represents your dream the better. Choose your options and interior, the accessories and options that you’d choose. The exact amount of money everything would cost. You want it to be so real that you could walk into a Porsche dealer tomorrow and order the car without having to think about it. You dream chart needs to be so real for you that you could describe it to a friend without having to look at the picture.
A Dream Chart Keeps You Motivated
Being an entrepreneur is hard and some days you’ll want to give up and go back to doing ‘a real job’. By taking a look at your Dream Chart it will remind you why you do what you do and give you the motivation to carry on. Further reading Are you going to achieve your goals?
