Kathy Garland | Transformational Leader | Innovative Speaker | Business Coach | Kathy Garland International

Women have great ideas and intuition about people, places and things. However, we sometimes let it stop at the idea instead of implementing something that could radically change our businesses, our families and our lives. Big ideas often seem like dreams, however, big ideas and dreams come true because someone decided to take some kind of action toward a dream.

Recently, I posted the response below on LinkedIn to a question on what people do to reach their dreams and received positive response from it so thought I would share it with you.

The success I’ve found in reaching my dreams and what I teach others in my teleseminars and workshops is a very simple formula:

1. be very clear about what you want
2. write it down
3. believe it is possible and visualize it
4. take action (any action) to get started
5. if you lose focus, remind yourself of what you want and do steps 2 – 4 again.

Some key concepts to keep in mind about your big ideas:
- The most important things to do is take some form of action right away because dreams lose their power if you don’t get started when you have the inspiration.

- If other people drag you down, it’s because they are thinking of their dreams and don’t understand yours.

- To me, it’s a good idea to always have dreams to work toward. Once we stop dreaming, we stop growing, stop innovating, stop being curious about the world around us.

I’ll close with one of my favorite quotes about dreaming big:
"All men dream, but not all equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake to find it was all vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act their dreams with open arms and make things happen." – T. E. Lawrence (a.k.a. ‘Lawrence of Arabia’)

Dream Big!

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