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Put Your Dream to the Test

To Achieve Your Dream, You Must Plan

A strategy is as important a part of the dream as the dream itself.Most people would agree that planning is important. However, they still neglect to do it. They forget to make it part of the process. We're so busy stargazing that we neglect strategizing. Here is an approach that can assist you:

1) State All Your Positions: If you know where you are and where you want to go you can create a map to get there.

2) Examine All Your Actions: The real difference between a dream and wishful thinking is what you do day to day.

3) Consider All Your Options: When you are having a hard time moving forward, don't be quick to revise your dream. Instead revise your plan.

4) Utilize All Your Resources: Engage every resource you have. You will need them to make your dream come true.

5) Remove All Your Non-essentials: The hardest part will be giving up the good things you like, but won't help you.

6) Embrace All Your Challenges.

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Building on Your Strengths Gives You the Highest Return

Successful people always put their time, energy, and resources into their strengths because they receive the highest return from it. And when they occasionally depart from that approach, the result is mediocrity.

You have some wonderful strengthsthat make you unique and hold great possibilities for your future. You just have to find them.

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Building on Your Strengths Enables Consistently Good Results

Dreams don't come true because a person does something well once in a while. Success isn't an event it's a lifestyle.Dreams are fulfilled when someone performs with excellence day  after day. That comes only if you work within an area of strength.

You cannot achieve success without consistency. You cannot achieve consistency if you are working outside your strengths. It will take all the talent you have to achieve a big dream. Following that talent will give you the greatest chance to be consistently good at what you do.

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Building on Your Strengths Activates the Law of Least Effort

When you build on your strengths, the activities using those strengths come more easily to you.

When people are going with their strengths and working in their sweet pot, the work they do is simple and easy. However, when they're focusing their effort in an area of weakness, what they do is complex and difficult. To achieve your dream, you have to build on strengths.

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As you move forward in the pursuit of your dream, you need to ask yourself, "Am I depending on factors within my control to achieve my dream?" People who build their dreams on reality take a very different approach to dreams than people who live in Fantasyland. Take a look at how differently the approach achieving a dream:

Fantasizers: Dream Builders:

Rely on luck Rely on discipline
Focus on the destination  Focus on the Journey
Cultivate unhealthy expectations Cultivate healthy discontent
Minimize the value of work Maximize the work they do
Look for excuses Lead to action
Create inertia Generate Momentum
Breed isolation    Promote Teamwork
Wait   Initiate
Avoid Personal risk Embrace risk as necessary

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A Clear Dream Gives Direction and Motivation to the Team

Your big dream will undoubtedly require the participation of other people.If you are a part of an organization that has goals or vision, then you must work with other people in order to accomplish them. Either way, you must be capable of working with a team. That can be done effectively only when  you possess a clear picture of what you want to achieve.

Lack of clarity hinders initiative, inhibits persistence, and undermines follow-through.Followers don't give their best to something they don't understand. People don't stay on course for something they cannot see. Nobody becomes motivated by something he kinda, sorta believes in.

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A Clear Dream Determines Your Priorities

It's easy to get so caught up in the day to day process of life that you lose sight of the big picture. However,when your dream is clearly in sight, it helps you get your priorities straight.

Nobody can have it all. We like to think we can, but we can't. If you see your dream clearly and keep it in front of you continually it will help you understand what you must sacrifice and what you must dedicate yourself to in order to keep moving forward. Only a clear picture of who you are and where you want to go can help you prioritize what you need to do. We all make choices. Clarity of vision creates clarity of priorities.

Will's Wisdom

If you missed this weeks Good News Moment you can check it out right here. It is awesome!

March 30th, 2010
Will’s Wisdom In case we haven't had a chance to meet in person, my name is Brandon Langer and I am your Corporate VP for the US. Today's Good News Moment comes from an unlikely place for me. I personally don't like the "Hollywood" scene because I believe too many people look up to actors or sports figures and too many times they’re let down. A video by Will Smith was sent to me through email and it was suggested that I check it out. I clicked on the link and I immediately thought I don’t have enough time to watch this 9 minute video, but I’ll watch the first 30 seconds...the next thing I know, I had actually watched the whole video twice. And now, I am forwarding it on to you. It is great! I know you will like it.   I hope the Good News Moment "Will’s Wisdom" will help you find success in your Symmetry business and personal life. Feel free to email me at Brandon.langer@symmcorp.com, visit us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and check out my blog daily for the latest Symmetry updates. I look forward to meeting you in the future and supporting your business the best I can. Yours for Success, Brandon Langer About Me "Today is a great day and I have the opportunity to show up as the best me ever!"
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A Clear Dream Affirms Your Purpose

Bringing your dream into focus should confirm the sense that you are going in the right direction, and it should strengthen your sense of purpose.

A person's dream and purpose are intertwined.God designs us to want to do what we are most capable of doing. Because of this, when we do things that are making an impact, something resonates within us.

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A Clear Dream Makes a General Idea Very Specific

A dream that isn't clear won't help you get anywhere.What do you want to accomplish? What do you want to experience? What do you want to contribute? Who do you want to become?  In other words, what does success look like for you? If you don't define it, you won't be able to get where you want to go.

It sounds overly simple, but a primary reason why most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. They haven't defined their dream in clear and compelling detail.