Don’t confuse your dreams with goals.
Dreams
occupy your mind. Goals take over your reality.
What will it
take to turn your dreams into goals?
Here are 10 Big Differences Between Goals and Dreams:
- Goals are something you are
acting on. Dreams are something you are just thinking about. Goals require action. Dreams
can happen without lifting a finger, even while you are asleep.
- Goals have deadlines. Dreams
are just, well, dreams. Goals must have a deadline. They have a time limit.
Dreams can go on forever. In fact, many people maintain dreams their
entire lives without ever reaching them.
- Dreams are free. Goals have a
cost. While
you can daydream for free, goals don’t come without a price. Time, money,
effort and sweat. How will you pay for your goals?
- Goals produce results. Dreams
don’t.
Want to change your life? Your job? Your status in life? Goals can do
that. A good friend of mine made six-figures on the ebook he published. He
did that. Had it stayed as a dream, his life would have been as it
always was.
- Dreams are imaginary. Goals are
based in reality.
You may dream of being Superman, but that is probably not going to happen.
Goals are about what you can actually accomplish. They are grounded in the
reality of our world. Goals should be big, but not supernatural.
- Goals have a finish line.
Dreams never have to end. Dreams can go on forever. They don’t have to have an
ending point. Goals must have a specific outcome.
- Dreams can inspire you. Goals
can change your life.
Dreams can bring you motivation. They can inspire you. But, goals can change
your life forever.
- Goals must have focus. Dreams
don’t.
Dreams can be drifting, ever-changing thoughts. Goals must be
laser-focused. They must be specific and they must be always on your mind.
- Goals require hard work. Dreams
just require your imagination. Dreaming is easy. Almost everyone has a dream. But,
fewer people have goals. Goals are hard and they require hard work. (See
#3)
- Dreams stretch your
imagination. Goals stretch you. Dreaming leads to bigger dreams. They stretch the
limits of your imagination. But, goals stretch you. They increase your
skills, your abilities, and change you forever.
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