It all starts with a desire that turns into a dream and a dream into a hard goal. If there is no vision in your head to guide you towards the unattainable, the knowledge of how to get there is worthless.
First, a clear image is formed in the mind, which you then want to transfer to the real world. You are the link of the invisible matter of your mind that carries this matter into the real world and turns it into a physical form.
However, something is holding you back from taking action. What? Fear, fear of what? Failure, people, opinions?
Remember that by refraining from acting, you have a 100% guarantee that you will not hit your target. The first step to making the impossible possible is to show COURAGE AND ACTION.
Not for the victims!
Reaching for impossible is not for cowardly, not self-confident, timid, timid people. Because such actions do not provide security. You will face many challenges, difficulties, failures, fights with bosses (people). Frequent trips, failures, great risks. These aren’t all fearful people, I’m sorry, but it’s the truth. Look at the great people of this world, they are not cowards, they are warriors, each in their own unique way.
Fear is one of the most destructive emotions on the way to your goal. Unfortunately, most people allow fear to keep their dreams from realizing them.
The unknown is fertile soil for fear, and the imagination eagerly focuses on the darkest scenarios in such a situation. Therefore, the unknown cannot frighten you, the unknown inspires and attracts you, but it never allows fear and fear to penetrate there.
Surround yourself with right and valuable people.
The truth is that who, with whom, I become. Dreaming of being the best athlete, you stop going to the pitch with your friends from the neighborhood, you only choose a club, you start meeting people who represent a higher level. It may be a painful path, exposed to a lot of criticism from friends, but when you want to do something, you have to reach for the highest.
If you value your own reputation, associate with people of good repute, as it’s better to be a loner than someone surrounded by bad company. – George Washington
People are like earth. They can nourish you and support you in making progress, but they can also hold back your personal growth and make you wither and die – Plato
Look for people who have achieved what you yourself want, learn from them, get inspired by them, develop personality traits that make them stand out. Better to be the weakest of the group than the best. Because then you do not develop when you are the weakest, you learn from smarter and more experienced people who are close to you.
Surround yourself with people who will bring something to your life.
If you yourself become someone whose company will inspire and motivate you, and you will positively influence the lives of others, your company will become something desirable.
Question your way of thinking.
You cannot solve a problem by referring to the logic that gave it to it. – Albert Einstein
Sometimes a turning point in a person’s life comes when he reaches the bottom on his own skin and realizes that he is responsible only for himself. And in order to change his catastrophic situation, he has to change the mindset that brought him to this place.
The world we have created is a product of our intellect, this reality cannot be changed without implementing a new way of thinking. – Albert Einstein
What is the difference between successful and struggling people? Asking the right questions and specific answers to be successful and not think about failure. In short:
– a successful person asks himself questions about his future, about the realization of dreams and visions.
– people who fail, ask themselves questions relating to problems, failures, fear, look for excuses and complain. They’re asking the wrong questions.
The phrase, What would happen if – allows you to activate the imagination, abstract, delicately search for solutions in the world of imagination and fantasy. After all, everything starts right there.
Take your imagination to a whole new level.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge limits us to what we know and what we understand. Imagination covers the whole world and the universe, something that does not exist and can happen. Imagination is an extremely important creative skill that makes anything, absolutely everything possible.
I paint objects as they appear in my thoughts, not as I see them. – Pablo Picasso
The man who has no imagination is without wings – Muhammad Ali
Before you do anything, you must first visualize it. That is why the imagination is the beginning. Create a strong and honest vision for the future. Imagination can work wonders if you just put it on the right track, in the right direction. It can also hurt you a lot if he feeds his imagination with negative thoughts, emotions, actions. Then negative scenarios will begin to form in your head, directed by your imagination.
Imagination is a powerful tool, use it properly and you will reach the stars, do it wrong and you will become nothing.
Work like the people of 1880.
If you want to achieve something great, SLEEK AND SMART WORK is essential, but by combining HARD MENTAL WORK WITH LONG TERM. In short:
WISDOM + HARD WORK = SUCCESS
Especially at the beginning when you build your legend and history. Once you get what you want, then you can allow yourself to work 2, 3 or 4 hours a week. Or even at all. Only to bring about such a situation, you must first do WISE ACTION, THE WORK THAT WILL MAKE YOU POSSIBLE EVERYDAY.
And it takes time, if you want to do something, do not be ready for tricks such as light work, high earnings, because you will never achieve your dreams. In today’s society, people want everything as soon as possible, but they don’t realize that great things take time, dedication, wise and hard work. Not everyone is ready for it. People see the end result: Athletes, Actors, Artists, Dogs, Businessmen. But they don’t realize how much work they had to put in to create it all.
As Will Smith once said: the titans of work win.
The social norm is 8 hours of work. Only if you want something, why not do it all day ?! As Edison himself said, if he stuck to the eight-hour working day, he probably wouldn’t have done anything.
The best sportsmen demonstrate an extraordinary work ethic, diligence and wisdom, such as Ronaldo. He comes to trainings earlier than his colleagues and also leaves them later.
This is how the titans work, and that’s why they win. When others rest, play, you work for your success, for your dreams.
And you don’t need to sleep for eight hours. When you feel bad, indulging in pleasure is a bad idea. You do not need to rest and relax daily or frequently. If you really want something, you won’t stop until you have it
Hard work is the price to pay for success. I believe that you can achieve anything if you are willing to pay the right price for it. – Vince Lombardi
Why was more work done in the past?
Today, work is faced by other entertainment, such as: Games, movies, Social Media, Television, Game shows, Parties, and other things that we devote our time to. Their availability is so easy that people prefer pleasure over hard work. Remember you have a choice. Work or pleasure. Realization of dreams or…?
Play All in and devote yourself entirely to one topic.
Look at people who do great things, whether in the fields of sports, film, entertainment, politics, science, technology, business, and devote themselves entirely to one particular thing.
And they don’t leave it as soon as something is temporarily interesting for them or for attention. Don’t try to do everything. By doing a lot of things, you are not doing anything right. Great people focus on a specific path, clearly defined, and don’t let their attention be distracted by new trinkets and toys.
The greatest successful people are known to stick with one for their entire lives. Those who choose to reach for the impossible do not assume that they will follow their chosen path for five years, they are ready to stick to it for twenty years or for the rest of their lives.
Go beyond safe limits.
Achieving the impossible is going beyond safe and accepted boundaries. So are pilots of military planes, athletes. Yes, and you, if you want to do something, you have to go beyond what you think you can do. Only by crossing your border you will know what you can really do.
Great men are not in the habit of giving up efforts after attaining a goal. Each subsequent goal is the next step on the journey towards something special. Just towards your dream. A great journey is 1000 steps / goals and even more.
When you lift weights, your muscles are destroyed, and then, through the rebuilding process, they grow larger and stronger. This can be compared to any other activity. You try to achieve something, you fail, thanks to which you grow in strength and your greatness.
Direct your obsession.
We all have some obsessions, but people who reach for the impossible focus their obsession on what has a chance to bring results and can be of exceptional importance. If you’re obsessed with something, use it:
– The Wright brothers were obsessed with flying
– Mozart saw the world beyond composing.
Your obsession, or being active in an area, can be a valuable guide in choosing what you would like to accomplish.
Think big. Don’t limit yourself.
Don’t you think that if I had known what the point I was headed for, I would have gotten there many years ago? – Rich DeVos
That’s why it’s important to have a vision and precisely define the place you want to be.
Vision not only helps you stay on the right path, it also helps you identify where the route is going.
You can’t predict the future, but you can follow your dreams – Jay Van Andel
Vision without action is a daydream. Acting without vision is a nightmare – Chinese proverb
The concept of an extensive vision includes, among others, achieving one goal and moving to the next one.
The story will be kind to me because I’m going to write it myself – Winston Churchill
The vision of life and the professional vision are two different vision models. As for the goal, the vision of your life must be clearly, precisely and concretely defined. In such a way that you know where you are going and why you are going there.
Vision gives direction to your entire life. If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there. Vision is the path you walk as you pursue your dreams.
Each vision is also goals, missions, tasks that must be performed in order to achieve this vision. A great vision is the realization of many goals. One by one, one by one. You finish one, move on to the next.
Keep the faith.
Faith allows us to believe in what is yet to come, and at the same time turns that belief into reality. Faith is the ability to see beyond reality around you and the ability to show trust in the future that is not yet discernible.
Definitely, all the people who did something great had a great deal of faith. They believed in themselves, in people and in making their vision a reality. People full of faith instill such trust in others. People full of faith in their vision attract others as much as their companies and activities. They gather people around a great idea.
Faith – Strong or steadfast trust in something, even in the absence of evidence – World English Dictionary
Ultimately, those who manage to accomplish the impossible develop such deep faith that they simply know that everything will turn out as they imagined. Belief in some higher power is an extremely strong faith that can overcome anything.
You need the most faith in the worst moments of your life, during the most difficult challenges, in great suffering and pain. Unfortunately, in such moments, very often people leave their faith and give up, giving up on the further path.
Show courage.
A sensible person adjusts to the world. The unreasonable makes the world fit together. Therefore, all progress is the result of actions by unwise people.
Notice that the great people of this world showed great courage. Cowardly people do not achieve great things. History does not remember cowardly people.
Nothing is so difficult, yet at the same time as valuable as the ability to make decisions. – Napoleon Bonaparte
You need to focus on one goal. Go towards that one thing that is your choice. – George Patton
Making a bold decision and making a bold choice will have a key impact on which path you choose to go. This is where you are now because you have made the choices that led you here. If you do not show courage in this process, for the rest of your life you may regret that you have created and chose a different path, the way of a coward who is afraid to fight for his dreams. Someday you will die for sure, but you want to die like a brave warrior or a terrified coward?
Fight against adversity like Muhammad Ali.
Hart of the spirit keeps you from giving up at any cost. That you will do absolutely anything to achieve the goal that is driven by your obsession, commitment, dreams, desires, and imagination. No matter how bad it is, what stands in front of you, you FIGHT until the very end.
If a tree is to reach impressive size, it must put down solid roots among the rocks – Fryderyk Nietzshe
When we have no worries, we do little, and by limiting our actions, we work to have something to worry about in the future. – Chinese proverb
The most outstanding people learn to continue their actions despite pain, not only physical, but also mental, and all difficulties and adversities that life puts before them on their way to greatness. No matter on what plane the game is played: sport, business, family, finances, health. The hart of spirit is ubiquitous in all of these things. Or at least it should be.
Every minute of training aroused my sincere reluctance, but I said to myself: ‚Don’t quit’ Now come to terms with your suffering and live the rest of your days as a champion. – Muhammad Ali.
Competition leads to the birth of perfection, and whoever disagrees with this claim continues to suffer from some past defeat. It is enough not to give up the fight and victory will be at hand – Patrick Bet David
Silence your critics.
Critics are like crickets, they make a lot of noise, but you can’t spot them, and when you get close to them they fall silent – Author unknown
The more ambitious your goal, the more you will be bombarded with opinions: this can’t be done, do something normal, etc., if that’s what you want to do, truly and honestly, then it’s a good place to show them how wrong they are.
Doubt in the eyes of the public and community is what can push you to greatness, the more you talk about it not real, you get better and better results until you finally do it. He would not treat it as the main element of motivation, but as an addition that, very effectively, can inspire you to act, precisely to make the unreal become real and thus make your dreams come true.
Haters, critics, enemies can be a really good source of motivation and inspiration to act. As long as your goal is honestly what you want to accomplish, and not just an empty action to show who is right, it doesn’t make sense. But using them to realize your grand visions makes sense.
Why?
You have your vision, dreams, desires, goals. You realize them with full power. Suddenly they start saying you won’t do it, they try to discourage you. Instead of worrying about it, use it to your advantage by showing everyone that they are wrong. That you will achieve something great, and they will not do anything until the end of their lives, but still at 80, they will hate.
An important rule.
To be successful, to become a champion, to do something great. The first step is to identify what you want to accomplish. What do you want to achieve. What do you want to be a master at. If you don’t know this, then you won’t be a master at anything.
Without making a choice and making this all-important decision, you don’t really have how to become that champion and be successful. You need the tool of CO to be successful. You have to choose your specialization. This is SOMETHING you will devote yourself to and work on until you are the best and successful.
The article is a small part of my private notes and entries from the book ‚Patrick Bet David – How to Make the Impossible’.