Taking Action to Make Your Dreams Come True – Turning Your Desire Into Reality

All the greatest human achievements began in someone’s head. The truth is – it’s possible to make your own deep desires and dreams come true for yourself. I’ve broken the process down here into the four Ds: Desire, Dream, Design, Do.

It’s very important that all steps are followed. Without desire, you may end up receiving something you didn’t really want. Without a dream, your plan will be ill-informed and ineffectual. Without a design, the action you take will be based purely on your intuition in the moment and that’s if you ever get started in the first place.

And without doing, well, you’d be living in a dream world…

Desire

Getting what you want begins with locating what it is that you really desire. The interesting thing about this process is that you have to locate the thing which makes you feel explosively enthusiastic and pleasurable about. In some ways you can’t actually choose what that thing is, because some deeper part of you has already chosen.

This process is fairly simple but requires a little self-discipline, awareness, and focus.

Begin by writing on a piece of paper, "what do I passionately and deeply desire?"

Answer your own question as many times as you feel, and then examine in greater detail each of the answers you have written down.

At this stage you should not try to make this any more than it is, but try to make it as detailed as you feel you can.

All you are trying to find out is what you really feel great about – it could be something as simple as moving to another country, playing a musical instrument, or owning your own business.

Dream

Once you have a list of things which you really desire, now order the list in terms of how strongly you feel about them.

Take the top three from that list and in turn think about them happening in your life. It may be something which can happen next week, next month, next year, or in several years.

Create an image in your mind of yourself at that time doing those things. You will know when you’ve got this process right because you will get a similar feeling to that feeling of desire which you had in the first process – but now the feeling will be linked to a dream you have about yourself.

You should now think about these three things as your goals. These are things you are actually going to achieve.

Design

Now it’s time to get realistic. What things need to change in your life to make your goals happen? What action do you need to take? What thinks may need to change about yourself?

How does it feel being yourself in those dreams as compared to how you feel now? What is the difference? Could you think of yourself as being the person achieving those goals? Is that who you really are?

Write a list of things which need to be done or need to happen in order for you to achieve these goals. If one of your goals is moving to Spain, for example, then you will have things in the list like:

* Find a method of income to support myself in Spain
* Learn basic Spanish
* Buy a plane ticket
* Find somewhere to live in Spain

Do

As powerful as the mind is, now it’s time to take action. This step is just as important, if not more, than the rest.

Can you actually do one of the things on each of your lists this week? In that case – do them. Make a commitment and get started on achieving the things you really deeply desire.

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Richard Paul Norton is an expert on self-development and life improvement techniques well known for his commitment, dedication, and honesty. He regularly writes articles only on his self-verified experiences at http://www.therealmind.com

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