When Is the Right Time To Take Actions About Your DREAMS?

 When Is the Right Time To Take Actions About Your DREAMS?

      Action springs from who you are, which is to say that if you vow to do something that it is completely against your character, then you are very unlikely to do it. So change must stem from a sense of personal experiment, excitement and exploration. It’s about flirting with new possibilities for who you might be. It’s about discovering through doing. And less tends to be more. 

Trying out something relatively modest, discovering you enjoyed it and did it well, and then trying something more challenging, is far more likely to work than setting yourself up to climb Mount Everest first. It’s about learning to walk before you run. It’s also good not to make bold commitments ahead of time. This might be called the New-Year Resolution fallacy. Many smokers find it easier to quit by saying they won’t smoke today, rather than that they’ll never smoke again ever. Similarly, don’t feel you have to commit to a whole new way of life, but instead run an experimental test alongside the life you are currently leading.

That might mean signing up for an evening class, volunteering for something new at work, visiting someone outside of your usual circle at the weekend. The extra-curricular can become your main line of work in time. But give it time. Entrepreneur Richard Branson put it this way: ‘

When people are put into positions slightly above what they would expect, they’re apt to excel Note the word doing the work in that sentence, ‘slightly’. If you put yourself in a position way above what you’d expect, you’re apt to fail.

That said, and as the world famous businessman Ray Kroc notes: ‘Where there is no risk there can be no pride in achievement and consequently no happiness . So you need to be prepared to be bold in your realism. A good way of thinking about this is to be clear about what is adventurous you. Or to put it the other way around, ask yourself what you do without a second thought that seems quite extraordinary to your friend. It might be writing hand-written letters, or taking your nephew to the playground on Saturdays. Then, ask what they do that seems beyond you –and ask yourself again, whether it can be so difficult. But perhaps the most important thing is to do something. Don’t do nothing. The smallest step is still a step forward, whereas no step will take you nowhere. British Politician Douglas Hurd put it well: ‘Inertia can gain its own momentum.