What gets the go-getters get-going

I was a little girl
alone in my little world
who dreamed of a little home for me...

I had a dream that I could fly
from the highest swing

I had a dream...
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Now I'm old and feeling gray
I don't know what's left to say
About this life I'm willing to leave...

I WISH I HAD lived it well
and had many tales to tell....

But I didn't
Why didn't I?
Too late, I see
to fulfill my fantasy.

So now, I sleep with regret
of not achieving what I had dreamt.
('Dream' by Priscilla Ahn, with some lyrics modified!)

We all dream. We all set goals. We all want something from life, don't we?

Then why is it that not everyone achieves what they set their minds to?  What is it that the 'achievers' have and the rest don't?
Oh no! Don't just say Luck! No matter how convenient an excuse 'Luck' is, we know that's not all.

Read it out for yourself- What gets the go-getters get-going towards their dreams.


➤ Visualize To Realize



Visualizing your dream life gives you purpose, confidence and a head start in your journey. Many experts and people who have been successful in their respective fields swear by the technique of visualization. In simple terms, suppose you want to write a book, you need to visualize yourself as an author releasing his/her first book, standing at the book launch and signing the first few copies.

You can go a little over the top by imagining yourself, with all your senses, receiving an award for it. It is a bestseller already! Doesn't it make you feel positive and confident? You may also try in reverse. Visualize a life where you didn't give it a try to your dream book. Makes you anxious? This may trigger you to work harder towards your dream.Yes, keeping too many unrealistic expectations may sound wrong. But it is about your dream. And there is and should not be any limitation to dreaming.

➤ Fear Not The Failure

Achievers are not afraid to fail and fall. Period. No matter how many times you have heard this one, it still stands true. Success and failure is a part of life. Do not let the fear of failure come between you and your dream. J.K. Rowling's first synopsis for the Harry Potter series was rejected 12 times. The world wouldn't have read such a masterpiece had she given up at her first rejection. Albert Einstein needs no introduction. He was refused admission in the polytechnic school. Years later he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Vincent Van Gogh, the greatest painter of all times was a failed artist most of his life. He is one of the greatest painters of all times. 

And you might not even fail. Why be afraid of the possibility then?

And if you still do, then another learning.

➤  Strike While The Iron Is Hot

Life is too short to miss an opportunity. They don't come too easily and too often. The go-getters know when and which one to grab. It is human to think before making a decision. Fair enough. But too much of thought and less of action sometimes make you miss the perfect chance.

Think but Act and Act at the right time. 

Let's say you are working on a project. Your boss considers you fit for another one and asks for your opinion. You take time to contemplate it. You consider it through all the parameters- salary hike, workload, change in the timings, job responsibilities and your own interests. You think it's not the right time for the shift. You will take it later. But that later never comes because you don't get the opportunity again. Someone else gets it. That lost project could have taken you closer to your dream, your destination.

The succeeders either don't miss the opportunity that comes their way or build it for themselves.

➤ Good is sometimes Good-enough

It is great to aim for perfection but it takes a toll on you sometimes. The desire to get that perfect write-up, that perfect role, that perfect photograph, that perfect dance-step, that perfect idea, that perfect time, that perfect chance makes you run after the best and ignore the good. Success is a journey from GOOD to BETTER to the BEST. The successful ones start from the good and eventually reach the perfect. 

And sometimes good is also GOOD ENOUGH. The go-getters know this.

If you too have a dream. If you are somewhere at the Start. If you are stuck at Middle.

If you have ever dreamt to be something. Then do as the go-getters do. And fulfill your precious dreams. 

And that song actually ends like this....

Now I'm old and feeling gray
I don't know what's left to say
About this life I'm willing to leave
I lived it full and I lived it well
There's many tales I've lived to tell
I'm ready now
I'm ready now
I'm ready now
To fly from the highest swing

I had a dream