Writing Down Your Goals

There is something about writing down your goals and aspirations that make them real. I read somewhere recently that until you write your dreams and aspirations down they are merely wishes.

I'm finding that it is important to write these things down because it enables us focus on our dreams and also motivates us to put together an action plan that acts as a catalyst towards achieving our dreams and making them a reality.

There is less danger of you getting off track once you have written down your dreams because you always have the document to refer back to at all times and i can only imagine the sort of feeling you get from ticking items on your list off as you achieve your goals. I can also only imagine that it propels and motivates you to achieve more and also inspires you to dream bigger and add even bigger dreams to your list. As human beings, there is something inside us and our make up that makes us want to achieve more and improve ourselves constantly. We have a gene of continuous improvement imbibed in us.

I watched one of Oprahs' shows recently that serves as a perfect example for this topic. The show was about a Zimbabwean woman Tererai Trent who grew up in a rural village and dreamt of studying in America and having an education even up to a PhD. She wrote her dreams down having no idea of how she was going to achieve them and buried it in an old metal tin in the bush. Years later she indeed moved to America and each time she accomplished a goal on her list she returned to Zimbabwe dug up the tin, crossed off that particular goal on her list and buried the tin again. She has gone on to achieve every one of her goals. All from writing down her dreams. What an inspiration!!!

Tererai encouraging others in her village to write down their dreams
http://www.oprah.com/world/Tererai-Trents-Inspiring-Education/3

I have written down my dreams and goals and would be sharing when and as i accomplish them.

We can go one step further and make vision boards. I'll do a post on that once I've made one of my own.

Dream big and write them down people. Everything is possible, only BELIEVE!