“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” ~Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France; perhaps best known for Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Do you like to dream?  Have you been known as a dreamer?  Have you ever been told to “stop daydreaming and get your head out of the clouds”?  Wonderful!  Great!  Good for you!  Those skills will serve you well and the process of goal creation is going to be easy for you.

If you are highly practical, if you like to always stay “down to earth”, if big dreams seem wrong or grandiose or ridiculous to you, then you might find the process of goal creation, as I teach it, a bit of a stretch.  Go ahead – stretch with me.  You can always be practical tomorrow.

All, and I mean all, of my coaching around goal creation and goal achievement starts with dreaming.  I start with dreaming because it works – when my clients and seminar attendees begin with dreaming, they achieve more, faster, and with more pleasure along the way.  I also use dreaming as a critical beginning element of the process of goal setting because my teachers and mentors also believe in the power of dreams.  Anthony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Lee Pulos, Brian Tracy – all of these great teachers and many more incorporate dreaming into their work.

I am not sure how long this series of articles will be yet.  I have been doing some very ambitious goal setting of my own lately and this process has been much on my mind.  I also just ordered 5 new books related to goals, books written since my last indepth study of the topic, and there may be some new ideas to discuss.  So, this series will last as long as it needs to.  I promise you this though, follow along and you will get to your dreams faster and have more fun along the  way.

Till next time…Jack

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” ~Marsha Norman
(born 1947]) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer and novelist.