Got a Dream, Write it Down

As speaker Tony Robbins says, “Repetition is the mother of skill.” Therefore I will repeat a theme I have talked about many, many times. Here it is: When you set a goal, you must write it down. Why am I repeating this? It is because so many people just don’t get it. They think that memory will work just as well. Success-minded people must understand this critical point, your brain leaks.

Here is the problem with memory: to start with, if you are like me you do not have one, or at least not one that works very well. A dream is only a passing thought if you cannot remember it. Also, when you try to work on something from memory, it changes each time you look at it. You get another thought, you take it in another direction. You cannot reach a destination if your road map changes each time you look at it.

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”

Joyce Meyer

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Success-minded people write down their dreams, in detail, because it helps them focus on where they are going. They know the destination, what it looks like and how it feels. Writing things down gives them life. They become tangible and you can hold on and look at them. In studies done on people who set goals, they have found that people who write their goals down are far more likely to reach them than those who play it as they go.

“But I don’t want to be trapped into one way,” you may say. If you feel your dream is a trap, you best find a new dream. Also, writing things down does not mean they cannot be changed. Success-minded people will evaluate their plans regularly and make needed adjustments to the course. You cannot do that if you do not have the course written down.

Author and entrepreneur Gary Ryan Blair is known as “The Goals Guy,” has said, “Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.” The fulfillment of your dreams will not just happen. You need to work at it and the way to start is to write it down, in detail, and read it at least once a week, once a day if you want to achieve it faster.

“Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets that the one who reads it may run.  For the vision is yet for an appointed time; it hastens toward the goal, and it will not fail.  Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay.” – Habakkuk 2:2-3

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