Who loves to drive? I do! Over the last 3 years, I have driven around twenty five to thirty thousand miles a year. Some people drive more and many drive less but my point here isn’t about the mileage but rather about the mental state you have to be in to drive those miles. How many have driven when they’re tired? I have and it’s no fun and if you don’t know your limits and when you should pull off then it could be quite dangerous. One of the most powerful things I have found is having the goal of getting to point B and the thought that I can do it, gets me farther down the road than thinking I can’t do it.
Just today I told someone that I’d rather set goals and not achieve them rather than stop dreaming. Sometimes your goals are just that, dreams, but if you’re anything like me your goals motivate you. Just like me driving long distances and thinking that I could do it, our dreams are many times distant but we’ll never get there or even get close if we don’t have that dream.
Goals are the most effective if you set smaller manageable steps on the way to achieving those goals, like mile markers when you’re driving and then you drive past mile marker after mile marker because you become emboldened passing those mile markers. When you start blowing past mile markers on a seven hundred mile trip your mind believes that you can make it. When we have goals in our lives just set small manageable steps and then just knock them out on your way to the top.
Always dream, it helps your mind to be in the right perspective for life and can help you accomplish more than you ever thought possible. Sometimes I don’t think peoples dreams are big enough, they sell themselves short because they’re not confident in their abilities. So dream larger than what your life is right now, you may not get to those exact dreams but you will make it farther than if you didn’t have those dreams. Also, sometimes on the way to achieving those big dreams, we find new dreams that actually satisfy us more than the original dream.