“I have big dreams of blah blah blah..“
That’s great, friend. Dreams are lovely. I often have dreams of battling a Minotaur with a big broadsword, but then I wake up and go to work.
Dreams are about as meaningful as “hope” and “change”.
Dreams are a way for dreamers to never face reality.
Dreams are for those who do not, or cannot, take action. Dreamers stay in dreamland rather than taking concrete steps to achieve a goal or series of goals.
Men of action got that way by taking ACTION.
Dreamers got to their position by daydreaming and fooling around rather than planning and doing.
Doers plan actions and then accomplish those plans.
Dreams are what happen when you are asleep.
When you are awake you take action. You make life happen.
Famous actors didn’t have dreams of becoming famous, they had plans. Dream actors live in the Midwest and read celebrity magazines, working in an office but dreaming of stardom. Doers move to Hollywood or New York City and do something every single day to further their goals.
Maybe yesterday you were a dreamer. Today, right now, is your time to become a doer. What action can you take today, right now, to further your goals? Go ahead and do it.
One action a day keeps the dreaming away.
If yesterday you were a fatso, today you will exercise and eat right. If yesterday you were a skinny wimp, today you will go to the gym and lift weights. If yesterday you were running your mouth about your dreams, today you will shut up and accomplish one thing to further your goals.
Today is the day you become a planner, an architect of your destiny, a mastermind of fate. Yesterday doesn’t mean anything and tomorrow is too far away. Right now is what counts. You spend it dreaming or you spend it doing.
Like the movie says, “Get busy living, or get busy dying“.
You have big dreams?
Keep dreaming, girly.
Men are busy taking action.
Fucking Amazing that you should post this today, right now with where I’m at in life. Thanks Vic.
Your fuckin awesome mate great website. Will show all my mates this website.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. - T.E, Lawrence
Nice post. There are way too many excuses available for people today. I’m far from perfect, but I realize that I’m responsible for anything I’ve screwed up in the past as well as anything I accomplish in the future. Visions and goals are great, but they are meaningless if you don’t kick yourself in the backside and take action on them.
I like your one action a day statement. When I first started on my doing my own thing thats all I commited to. But that did three things. One it kept what i was doing in my mind where I was planning my work. Second it helped me form the habit of working on my business consistenly. Third it built momentum where now i want to be working on my business all the time. Keep up the good work Vic!
The post is inspiring, but it is also dangerous. There are dreams that will only bring you misery if you turn them into action.
I”m confused. How many people take action without dreams or goals?
Vic,
This may be an older post of yours, but my god does it still ring true. Nothing is ever going to come into exsistence until action is taken. They’re plenty of dreamers out there. Plenty of dreamers who sit there and talk about what they would do if they had this, what they would do if that had that, but guess what they have? Jack shit. The hardest part of doing something is learning, once you learn how to do something, it becomes easy. It’s just amazing to me how afraid of trying people are.
This post doesn’t have a lot of comments, but I think an important thing to remember is that taking ANY action towards your goals is better than taking no action- even if that action isn’t perfect it’s a start in the right direction rather then just wishing and hoping for what you want. I used to be frozen by fear of doing the wrong thing to actually START anything, now I get whatever the hell it is onto paper and start doing the work. Very slowly (I still work a 9-5 and do this on the side) I am seeing my dreams and goals come closer to reality. Remember you can always go back later and polish and perfect the work, get a second opinion if you want one, etc. but there has to actually BE something to refine.
Great post as always, thank you again for the motivation.
Don’t confuse dreaming with planning.
I have read many books saying you have to dream it to make it happen.
That is called visualization, which is a part of planning. You see the end goal. You visualize it and plan the steps to reach the goals.