How To Achieve Your Dreams In Life And Be Successful
There are many people who think that dreaming about one thing is enough for it to come true. Nothing could be further from reality, dreams are still thoughts and only the achievement of actions usually bears fruit.
One of the most famous Spanish actors left us a really interesting message a few months ago that many people overlook: Dreams are not fulfilled, they are pursued.
The famous Antonio Banderas He reflected on the most important lesson he had learned in all those years in Hollywood:
Perhaps having killed many myths, realizing that there are no impossible dreams, that is a message that I always try to convey to young people. If I have achieved it, anyone can achieve it, it is about working and dreaming very hard. Above all, dreaming very hard, having the capacity for sacrifice, putting in the effort and working, always getting up, there is no such thing as total failure. (…)
In this way, Antonio Banderas summarizes his vision of success, something that many long for but that when push comes to shove, few achieve.
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There is no formula, nor is there the same version of success For your father it may be having a 4×4 car, for your neighbor having a finished collection of figurines and for another being an entrepreneur and having his own company. Actually, since there is not the same conception, it is difficult to generalize.
In one of the definitions that the Royal Spanish Academy gives for the concept of ‘success’, it is conceived as the “Happy result of a business, performance.” In short, the RAE itself tells us that we must take action and act. Only in this way can we achieve the objectives.
And we should not confuse success with luck, there is a very small percentage of society that perhaps one day wakes up and has won the lottery, this possibility being statistically improbable, It is better to focus our efforts on a goal that can be achieved since we spend our lives buying ‘La Primitiva’ waiting to see if it plays.
The harsh reality: if you want something, go for it
Antonio Banderas also mentions in his appearance on the program that according to 75% of young people they want to be civil servants when they finish university. This problem probably comes from a long time ago Perhaps it is because of the fear that Spaniards have of failure, of being pointed at and told that you have failed in life, perhaps the problem is the high level of unemployment there is, and that is why young people want security and stability.
Anywaysit is bad to know that we have such unenthusiastic youth, with little desire to fail in order to learn to take risks and make decisions, even if they do not achieve their goal the first time, we should not be discouraged, we can always think that Thomas Alva Edison failed 1,000 times before finding the light bulb that illuminates our homes today, so it is normal that we Let’s not get it right the first time.
The important thing is to know how to change your goals as you progress along the way Maybe what you set at the beginning no longer interests you or it is really difficult to achieve. Psychology often remembers that the importance of things is not inherent to each event, but depends on the relevance that we want to give it.
It is also important that you plan, Austrian lawyer Peter Drucker once said that “Long-term planning is not about future decisions but about the future with current decisions”, so If we plan well we will save ourselves from wasting many hours on tasks that do not contribute to the final result
Being clear about your priorities is one of the keys to success
One of the reasons why we often fail to accomplish what we set out to do is that we are not clear about our priorities. Unfortunately there are 24 hours in a day, and we cannot lengthen it any longer We must optimize our time to be productive and have time to do different tasks.
Sometimes we have to know how to say no to things that we would like to do, but that will harm us in the long term in our efforts to achieve our goal. If you are invited to go to a barbecue but you have to hand in an assignment that depends on your passing the subject, perhaps it is worth staying home to finish it, there will be other opportunities to have a barbecue in your life.
To conclude, we must also remember that it is totally respectable that people are more comfortable and do not want to take risks, we do not all have the same ambitions and as we know, in democracy any opinion is respectable.
So if you want to achieve your goals, remember to plan well, prioritize your efforts and above all, work with ambition to achieve your goal.
