Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. ~Goethe

What a great quote!  “Dream no small dreams…  How about you?  Do you have a clear, compelling vision of your future?  A vision so exciting that it powers you through the needed work;  a vision so powerful that you will pay the price, in self discipline and action to make it happen?  If you are like most of my clients, you have a vision of what life will be like once you win the lottery or what life will be like in some distant future time when you somehow end up with all of your dreams having come true.  What very few of my clients have initially, I would say less than 5% of them when we start working together, is a compelling vision of what it will be like just 12 months later – if they achieve their five most important goals.

This is unfortunate.  This 12 month vision is critical; without it most people never take the yearly actions that will ultimately make their long-term visions real.  So how do you start to create a vision for your future – for the next 12 months?  You dream.  You dream long-term and short-term.  You dream without limits.  You dare to put down on paper your most treasured desires – without worrying about how you will achieve them (at least at first).

I was trying to decide how best to give you this material and I will proceed this way:  I am going to give you one question or series of questions dealing with the same topic, each entry.  You can proceed at your own pace and over the course of a few days, you will have a more powerful plan to create the future of your dreams than 95% of the people out there and you will have the powerful vision that you need to make it happen.

For today, I will just ask you this question to get you going: What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?  What would you attempt to become or achieve or do, if you knew that it was impossible to fail?  This isn’t my original question – it comes from one of my early mentors: Tony Robbins.

We are also going to do just a bit of priming in the next entry.  Priming is a very powerful technique to put yourself in optimal, peak states.  You don’t want to miss that either.  For now, just answer the question: If you couldn’t fail, what would you do?

Till next time…Jack

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~Mark Twain