Distinguish Between Goals and Fantasies When Planning Your Future
Everyone has something that they want to do in their life in the future. Not everyone has specific practical goals. When planning your future, ask yourself if these are real goals or just fantasies.
As business blog Entrepreneur points out, focusing too much on lofty dreams without a practical plan is more likely to lead to disappointment than to success. While we are constantly bombarded with messages to get to the stars, the fact is, unless you have a plan to get a job at SpaceX , stars are fantastic:
Visualizing goals is great, but over-imagining is a serious mistake. Instead of setting “goals” around high performance, work on tangible, actionable things that can affect the here and now.
This does not mean that you cannot be ambitious. Lots of people have done incredible things because they set themselves fantastic goals. However, many more people wanted to do something without a plan and were disappointed when they didn’t get there.
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