“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.
Today I will shut up and accomplish one thing to further my goals. and than one thing more and more and more…
Everytime I read this bold reads I get fired up to the extreme. Great job man!
The dreamers exhaust us. They must go before they wear us out with their blasted dreams.
I love this post as much as I love this website in general. Thank you!
Hello! I am a woman and i spent yesterday mostly reading at your blog. I have to say that i agree with lots of things you state, even those that women wouldn’t traditionally agree with. I am one of those black listed party girls who are the opposite of your wife list and you know sth? You are right. I am not wife material. I am now in my second marriage and it doesn’t seem to work any better than the first.
I believe that what you say about women also applies to men to an extent. If you are used to sleeping with many partners and being selfish, you can not simply land into monogamy land and be happy for the next 50 years, it’s simply unrealistic. Unless you imply that the man will soon cheat on the wife, cause this wife to me seems hella effective, but also hella boring. Too predictable.
Society lacks the type of men you describe and i feel i want to make fake emails and email your blog’s link to many ex boyfriends and to my father. I was abused as a kid because my father was sissified and couldn’t put my psychopath mother into her place. Even to this day she rules his life and wallet and he developed autoimmune illnesses. That’s patheticness imo.
Anyway, my point is you do a badass job here and i will follow your advice to make money and take action and all that shit.
Life is a dynamic game, somewhere you win, somewhere you lose.
If it takes to lose a provider who has a side harem, but be free and make my own money, i am fine with that.
Keep up the awsome job!
Bunnymassacre
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Mr. Pride,
Sometimes, when I take an action on my blog, I can spend hours trying to figure out one task, and it feels like I’m accomplishing nothing. I’m starting to realize that a lot of the times, working towards our goals doesn’t always give us a feeling of accomplishment. Not until after, sometimes long after.
For instance, once, I spent days and days working on a website that sold watches. I would spend hours each day, troubleshooting, accomplishing nothing it felt like. Finally, it was done, but I had to go out to sea for a month, and after that I gave up on doing any maintenance on the website, figuring it was a dumb idea anyway. It wasn’t until the middle of a seven month deployment a few months later that I got back on the website, and was greatly impressed with what I had done. The website never made me a nickel (though maybe it could have if I stuck with it), but it felt great, and I couldn’t believe I had built something like that, I wasn’t impressed with myself until months later, when I could see the whole picture.
Thanks for the post.