What is the relationship between goals and dreams? What does it mean to reach your goals? Can you really reach your dreams?

When I created the byline for The Living Your Greatness System “9 Strategies to Break Through Obstacles and Live Your Dreams”, I was hesitant to include the ‘dreams’ part.  To me, living your dreams seemed too ‘pie in the sky’, but when I though about it, it is living our dreams that many of us want out of our lives, so I included it.

What are the characteristics of your dreams? For me, my dreams seem to be a bit ‘pie in the sky’, not very clear, I’m not sure if I can really get them, and I’m not really focused on doing what I need to do to get there. Are your dreams like that?

On the other hand, I have learned to make my goals SMART. Specific enough that they motivate me because I know exactly what I want, Measurable so I know when I am making progress and when I get there, Achievable because if I don’t believe I can achieve them, they won’t motivate me, Relevant so they are things I really want, and Time bound because I know that deadlines motivate me to get things done.

They are very different from my dreams, but I believe that if I set the right goals, as I am striving for them I will be living my dreams. It is important not to confuse goals and dreams.  You want to set goals, strive to reach them, reach them, and move on to the next goal. I believe that people who have dreams that can be reached, they run the risk of being dissatisfied when they reach them. After you reached the dream, then what?

If on the other hand you set up your goals so that in the process of reaching them you will be doing the things you want to be doing with your life, then you can live your dreams as you strive to reach your goals. If you take the time to get them lined up so this is true, do you think you you will live a more fulfilled life, whatever barriers you have to cross to reach your goals?

Learn how to do this in The Living Your Greatness System. Watch this video for a free report on the 9 strategies of The Living Your Greatness System.

In future blog posts it is my intention to share some of the strategies. There is also a free paper about the 9 strategies.