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Plan to Keep Your Dreams in Focus

by Liane Schmidt in Lifestyle Choices, January 28, 2008

You must remain focused to achieve your dreams.

It is important to stay focused on your dreams. It is important to remember that like any goal creating a plan, timeline and allowing for necessary modifications and flexibility along the way will without a doubt ensure that you reach your dreams.

Within any given day, we are all faced with numerous challenges, events, choices, options, etc. These different avenues can help keep us on track and they can also slightly or drastically steer us away from the direction of our dreams. An indulgent shopping spree or last minute trip to Vegas can seem like a great decision at the moment, but if you do not have the financial means or the endeavor will cause more stress than the short term high it gives, it is a decision that is not in your best interest. It will not only hold you back another day, week, or month from reaching your dreams, but it will also make you feel bad about yourself and your ability to make wise decisions. These are detrimental consequences that can affect your overall well-being, your focus and your ultimate ability to realize your dreams. This does not have to happen to you.

To avoid such a negative outcome, one of the most important things you can do is prioritize your choices and decisions. Prioritizing helps you figure out what you need to do in order to achieve your goals and vice versa. When you prioritize, you are basically making choices that reveal the things that are most important to you. This is of utmost importance to any endeavor you choose to invest yourself in. And, you need to prioritize because there will always be many things you could be doing at any given moment. If you do not take the time to prioritize these choices you will not have a solid path to follow and you may, as people often do, lose sight of your dreams.

Your focus is crucial to being able to accomplish and reach all your dreams. Anything that can help you remain focused when the world around you may be pulling you in different directions will only benefit your life.

Take the time to know what your most important values are. Take the time to prioritize. Take the time to stay focused. And believe; your dreams are coming true.

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  1. Lucy Lockett

    On January 28, 2008 at 4:07 am


    I am a believer! And you can’t stop me*!*

  2. AndyPanda

    On January 28, 2008 at 4:24 am


    Very nice.

  3. Cherrycher

    On January 28, 2008 at 7:32 am


    I have a hard time staying focused.
    Thanks for the reminder, Liane!

  4. Darlene McFarlane

    On January 28, 2008 at 8:47 am


    Very nicely put. I have to stop sometimes to re-focus. You have given us incentive to keep going and keep knowing that what we are looking for is within our reach if we only keep our eyes on the prize.

    Good job, Liane

  5. CHAN LEE PENG

    On January 28, 2008 at 9:40 am


    Liane, very good piece of work!Take care!

  6. Jessica Rowe

    On January 28, 2008 at 9:59 am


    Sometimes I get off track, and have to get focused again, but I thing my biggest problem is prioritizing.

  7. miriam ramirez

    On January 28, 2008 at 10:54 am


    You’re right. Sometimes I am to fond of taking the plunge, but you’re right, prioritizing is crucial. Nice work.

    Miriam

  8. Francie

    On January 29, 2008 at 1:39 am


    Great article, staying focused is key! I loved this one!!

  9. Ruby Hawk

    On January 29, 2008 at 9:19 pm


    Sometimes we get stuck in a ho-hum world but you are right. we might need to take a fresh breath, refocus, and move ahead.

  10. Jo Bingham

    On November 7, 2008 at 10:47 am


    Amen to that! A plunger without olanning always ends up in the potty. Lol. (I know…)

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