
When I'm 80 years old, will I regret playing it safe and not at least trying to live my dream life?īe as specific as you can here. This is how I put my big, scary dreams into perspective: It'll serve as your guide post, your North Star. So it is better to listen to it." -Paulo Coehlo (The Alchemist)Įven if your dreams and goals are big, scary, and seemingly unachievable, write them down anyway. " You will never be able to escape from your heart. Engage your heart and soul and be honest with yourself. This is what it means to develop your own self-awareness! In this post, you'll find some tough questions designed to get you really thinking. You'll need to identify why they're important to you (your "why"), and what's keeping you from either getting started or achieving them. So, the first thing to do when goal setting is to reflect and clearly define what your goals and dreams really are. And how important it was for me to be my best self. Why I wanted to achieve those dreams and goals. So what's that one thing I did to press ahead and move forward? Becoming self-aware. I resolved to demonstrate to my kids what it was like to pick myself up after failure and to take action and at least try to get to a better place. It took me a while, but one day I finally decided I'd had enough of the self-pity, anger, resentment, and frustration. But as a result of those things happening to me, I was forced to dig deep and figure out a way to get through it. In my own life, I've been through situations that seemed unbearable, unsolvable, and all-pervasive.

Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.


I'm glad that something happened to cause that shift in you and caused you to realize you had to take action toward your dreams. I hope you're reading this post because you've resolved to do something different this year.
