Five(5) Tips On How To Nurture Your Dreams

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam — 'Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.'

However if we do not nurture them, they will die or fade into a figment in our imagination.

Our dreams are meant to be a driving force in our inside, driving us to arriving there in real life; but when this driving force parks up, stagnation becomes reality.

Success requires Consistency as a key ingredient. Consistency would be in place only when our dreams are fresh, cherished and strong in our minds.

1. Identify and avoid dream killers.

Know and refrain as much as possible from those around you that seems to one way or the other always suffocate your aspirations, as seen either by their comments or disposition.

They are no good to your dreams. Intelligently keep them away from your dreams, aspirations and plan if you cannot necessarily avoid them.

2. Accommodate opportunities that will take you closer into attaining your dreams.

Be objectively open to opportunities that present potential of drawing you closer to your dreams.

Do not shy away from them; weigh them, and if they are appropriate, in line and crucial, accepts them.

This opportunities will keep you motivated and serve as a source of great encouragement.

3. See setbacks, as unfortunate as they may seem, as a detour that will ultimately culminate into a vital path of the journey.

Setbacks may delay you, but they will always make you stronger and razor sharper.

You will always never see any good in setbacks at first, but I can assure you that there is a good in it; you will eventually recognize it in the long run.

4. Know the difference between Passion and Interest, and make your dreams your passion.

Five(5) Simple Reasons Why People Fail

The failures we encounter can be traced to five(5) simple root causes, but let me say a few things things first.

The fear of failing is rearly the reason for failing as mostly perceived.

This is true because for the most part we don't really fear failing, but what we do fear is whether or we have it in us to rise from a terrible fall.

We fear succeeding and not having what it takes to sustain it.

It is not the fear of failing that keeps us from trying, it is the fear of "am I good enough or deserving of this blessing or success."

The fear of failing is not the primary issue, it could be the fear of discovering or manifesting  a part of us we never knew existed before, on the road to success.

I am emphasizing on fear because for me, it is not among the five(5) primary reason people fail.

So, here are five(5) simple reasons people fail. People,

1. Underestimate their Strengths.

We fail because we are more conscious and confident about our weaknesses than our strengths. We know pound for pound all our area of weaknesses and how bad it looks, but we know or take to account little or nothing our strengths.

We will seldom succeed if we never come to Identify, Cultivate and Nurture on our strengths rather than on our weaknesses.

2. Underestimate the fruits of Hard Work and Diligence.

Hard work pays. Diligence elevates. Down playing on the importance of these, in building our core values could prove fatal to our success in life.

RULE OVER YOUR EMOTIONS||LEAD!

Permit me to tell you why emotions are such bad leaders but great followers.

Have you notice how things whined up badly when done out of some feeling or emotion(or spur of the moment of some sort), especially when done through any minimal contemplation of any kind?

Haven't you regretted afterwords, making an important life decision based on a whim? It is because emotions are such bad leaders.

Our emotions are not smart. Someone said "emotions are without brains". You need to give your emotions the passenger's seat not the driver's, or you will pay for it later.

Truly, our emotions are very very important, and we can accomplish much with them, only when wisdom is applied with it - this is where taking the lead comes in.

Emotions are like YO-YO's, they are these now and that immediately after, ever changing and for the majority of the time should not to be trusted.

For example, if you really want to get a job done, you will have to really dig your heels in and stick with it regardless off how you feel or don't feel. And when you stick with it long enough even though you started not feeling like doing any of it, you will realize that you emotions will catch up and become excited eventually; see, good followers.

Learning How to Leverage on Past Mistakes

Too much have been said about minimizing risk and avoiding mistakes so much so that it has become almost frightening to taking decisions about little issues.

In as much as learning how to minimize risk at any endeavor is imperative, becoming fearful about risks taking altogether will cause you more harm than the latter.

I think there is need to master the art of leveraging on our past mistakes and not only on how to minimize risks. I think this is a superior wisdom.

Anybody can minimize risk just by not taking any, which is very sad, but turning mistakes into milestones requires great understanding, and not everybody have that.

But you see no one is born with great understanding, it is learned by instruction, knowledge and counsel, which is what I am offering you.

It is foolish for one to be caught on the same net twice. Being taken by the same mistakes is never a good thing. For anything mistakes are to be avoided but when they come, which they will, you should learn how to receive instruction from it.

The only way for you to leverage from a bad situation is to learn from it. It is to receive instruction from it not just experience.

Here are some nuggets to consider:

• Experience gained from past mistakes may not necessarily stop you from making them again, but getting understanding by receiving instruction from the mistake will always keep you from making same mistakes.

• Learn not to focus on the things lost by the mistake but on the things you could still salvage from all of it, however how damaging the mistake may be. However severe the mistake you are making or have made may seem, there is still something there you could save, you just have to consider it deeply.

• You are never the real victim of your own mistakes, others are, so be less conscious about yourself in this case and think on how the mistake you have made or are making is affecting others. There is something about caring for others. There is something about putting the needs of others first. It brings wisdom needed for fixing fences. 

Now here are some ways on how to be instructed from past mistakes:

1. Consider the Patterns. There are always patterns that play themselves out in culminating into the mistake you made or are making now. Look for it and try to avoid it next time. You see, it is in identifying the pattern that you can circumvent it and keep it from repeating. Why because if you know the pattern from the previous and now see those patterns playing out again, you could quickly get out of it.
2. Consider the Counsels and your Choices. You must have received advice one way or the other before and during the time of the mistake. So consider them and try to reason why you took the path you took and why you ignored the advice that would had made the difference.

This look strenuous but this are what make wise people. The wise are those that have learned to receive instruction from all their past mistakes.

How To Realign Your Self Perception

Perception is everything. How you see yourself is of uttermost importance to how you turn out in life.

Often times we perceive others as something, while we see ourselves as nothing. You think they are just lucky or perhaps it is because of their personality.

The truth is that if you go closer to this ones you will discover that they are not superhuman either. You will realize that they are just ordinary people that refused to believe that they are ordinary.

They chose to believe that they are something while you chose to be believe that you are just one of many people that are out they. But you can't be more farther from the truth.

The truth is that you are special, but until you start believing it, you won't amount to much.

How you see yourself is the game changer. If you see yourself as rich, it is because you are rich, and no matter how contrary the current situation may look, you will eventually become how you see yourself. But if you see yourself as weak and poor, I can tell you with authority that you can't beat that.

Know What You Want

It is only in knowing what you want you can stand the chance of competing in life on equal plane with everyone else. Other than this, you are not even enlisted for the race to begin with (not even fit for the battle of life).

Do you really know what you want? If you were to be asked this simple but powerful question, "what do you want", will you have an answer? A simple answer also, or you would just mumble a lot of nothing ? Do you even know what it is that you want in life for yourself! Do you actually aspire to attain anything?

Have you considered that it is in knowing what you want that you will know what to pursue?

I have been where I didn't know what I wanted in life; it was terrible. It was just motion in the same spot; You know, oscillating is motion but no progress, so it is with living without knowing what you actually want.

You have to know what you want in every area of your life, in your relationships, in your finances (how much you want to be earning within such and such with planned or foreseen increase in the future), your health, your family, and so forth. Know in every area what you want so that you can pursue them.