Empower Yourself To Make Your Dreams Come True

You keep can complaining that thorns have roses, or you can start rejoicing that roses have thorns. The choice is yours But the way you choose to look at your life, will affect your happiness. Complaining has never gotten anybody anywhere. Manifest that success, you've been longing for, all you need is to switch your focus.
I believe you have a dream. You might say you don't, but do you remember way back when you used to dream? What did you want to become? What is keeping you from pursuing that dream? If you are waiting for the right time, I tell you now, there is no perfect time.
There is always something isn't it? It all depends on where you are putting your energy. Research shows that most people put more effort into planning their holidays, than they do on planning their own lives. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. But the good news is, today you can start planning for your tomorrow, with my five strategies: Attention, Intention, Contention, Extension and Retention.
The first thing I want to talk about is Attention:
When you're not focused, you'll stop paying attention. When you stop paying attention, you'll lose your focus. Focus is crucial to our success. Everyone in life wants to succeed, but only those who are focused, will refuse to be distracted from their dreams. For the rest, success will just remain a fantasy. The main difference between a dream and a fantasy is that people are meant to pursue their dreams, while fantasy is just supposed to be a daydream.
Besides, Your level happiness depends on what you are focusing on. What are you focusing on? Whatever you pay attention to, will steal your affection. We attract things into our lives in two ways. Through faith which makes us focus on what we want. And through fear, which makes us focus on what we don't want, but we are afraid might happen. As Les Brown famously said, "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." If you are not living in faith, you are living in fear.
The second thing I want to talk about is Retention:
Do you feel that something is missing? Are you embarrassed to tell someone your dream, in case they laugh? Do you feel like you've lost the zest for life? Then you need to increase your retention level. What I call Retention is purposely reminding yourself what a winner have once been in the past, in order to motivate yourself to follow your dream today. Retention is never taking your eyes off your dream, because out of sight is out of mind. Whatever has got your attention, will steal your affection, it might as well be your dream.
By the way, Retention is putting a picture of your dream car on your bedroom wall, with the kind of writing. When you wake up to it every morning, you will become motivated to go after your dreams. Advertisers use this strategy all the time. They make sure we never forget their products, so that we will buy it. Sell your dream to yourself; so that you buy into it. Because if you don't no-one else will.
The third thing I want to talk about is Intention:
Meanwhile, Your intention is the ulterior motive that makes you act the way you do. Your intention is the inside job that affects every decision you make. Your intention is the trigger that make you react to life the way you do. When we don't set our intentions, Petty things will replace our priorities. So before getting out of bed in the morning, set your intention to have a productive day, no matter what happens. You might not have control on what life brings, but you can control the way you let it affect you.
So why don't you set yourself a Daily Contract, about your daily contributions towards your dream. When you are constantly reminded of your dream, you are more likely to go after it. So don't let life circumstances steal your dreams from you, because dreams do come true.
The fourth thing I want to talk about is Contention:
In general, Contention is perceived to be negative, but there is a meaning of contention, which is positive. And that is what I am referring to at this instance. Contention in this case, means competing for a prize. Not as in unhealthy competition, but in terms of fighting for your self, in this competitive world. To make your dream come true, you need to fight and put to flight self doubt. To make your dream come true, you need to mentally prepare yourself for success, and build your life up. To make your dream come true, you need to need to maximize your strength and not magnify your weaknesses.
This involves taking focus off your weaknesses, and focusing on your strength. This involves doing anything you can, to magnify your strength and minimize your weaknesses. This involves doing whatever it takes to make your dream come true. If you need more training get it. If you need confidence, get a life coach. If you need more time, offload some of your time wasting activities. I mean we all watch TV for hours. Instead of dwelling on your weaknesses, find a way to turn them into your strengths. Do everything needed, to put your dream on the map, of your life journey.
Clearly, you deserve to give your life, the best shot, by backing you dream with efforts. Without action your dream is not even on the map. When put in the effort, believe in yourself. Bring out the best in yourself, by focusing on your passion and your vision. Fight for your dream by putting yourself in a position where you can compete, through the quality of your effort, but not through strife, manipulation and bitterness. As Anatole France famously said "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
The fifth thing I want to talk about is Extension:
Basically, to enlarge your achievements, you need to extend your vision. Your dream can never be bigger then your vision. If you can't see in your mind, that achieving your dream is possible, you won't challenge what's holding you back. You current way of thinking is a snapshot for your future. Nurture your future, by planning for it today. Expand your vision by expanding your thinking. See every failed attempt as preparation for winning, and opportunity to identify the ways that don't work, so that you can try other options.
However, if you think of failed attempts as being a failure, you will give up. And end up with low self esteem, which will rob you of your dream. The way you think today is a snapshot to what your tomorrow will be like. Our thoughts are very powerful; they determine our actions or lack of them. If we think, we can't do any better, we won't bother to try. You cannot improve your lot in life by remaining in your comfort zone. Comfort zone creates mental barrier to success, because a person that operates in it will shy away from trying something new or taking a chance. Without change, we can grow or extend.
You will never grow if you are not motivated to turn your passion into action. You will never grow if you don't turn get rid of bad habits that are dragging you down. You will never grow if you don't turn your dream to your goal. Goals are dreams with a deadline. I will achieve so and so before June first. And here is what and what I will do to achieve this. Therefore, decide what you want to do, and set a goal to do it.
Negative habits are not only unproductive; they steal your future and destiny, if you let them. Negative thoughts are dream killer. Learn to turn off any negative thought that pops in your mind, by replacing them with positive thoughts. Negative comments are confident killers. Learn to get rid of any self talk that are not becoming of you.
In the same way, expect thing to work out in your life. Don't focus on what's wrong but what's right. Whatever you focus on will become your desire. Expect to become successful. Those who are successful don't have two heads, they just believe more in themselves. Expect to come back from any setback. Expect your dream to come true. This called self-fulfilling prophecy.
I close by saying, there are people in life who look at things that are possible, and say; "Why should I do it." But let's be the type people who look at things that seem impossible at first and say; "Why not, someone is got to try it, it might as well be me.

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