“What is one Dream that gets me excited and what simple thing can I do to move toward it?”
Identifying your Dream is the first step in making it come true. A helpful way to visualize your dream is to think of it as your personal North Star. It guides you and pulls you forward. Your Dream is always there – sometimes it is easy to see other times it takes faith and determination.
Write down your dream. Do it!
What is a North Star?
This article details physically “the North Star” (Polaris). This is fun reading about the universe and our perspective into it, Literally.
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Identifying and revisiting your North Star is a powerful exercise. It facilitates the transition to action, incrememtal powerul action, that moves us toward our dream comeing true. There is magic when we ACT on our Dreams.
Think about it! What gets you excited? Pick your timeline. A Decade? Five years? Your North Star needs to be far enough in the future to create long term momentum. At least a chunck of your life!
Think BIG! LIFETIME BIG.
Take the Tombstone test – literally, write your own tombstone. What do you want the world to remember when you are gone?
Learn more about North Star thinking!
Take a look at this article by Prasad Kaipa in the Harvard Business Review. He investigates how North Star work elevates our thinking from inteligence to wisdom – Fantastic!
Make it happen – start today
In the next few weeks we will be reviewing the best possible questions to ask ourselves. I hope you will join us and more importantly utilize the questions to make your life the way you want it to be.