Dreams are motivation. Dreams, in most cases, are the catalyst to starting a website or a business. Paying off your mortgage, spending more time with your family or even getting your own book deal. But when do dreams turn into real life nightmares? When you are dreaming way too much;

  • Talking a good talk

‘This time next year’ blah blah blah, yeah it’s great to talk about what you are going to do when you have made it, but if that’s all you do, you will never get there. I talk to my family about my plans and how it will all be different, but that is either right before I do a stack of work or just after, to reassure them it’s worth it. I’ve written before about my wife and sister who have some tremendous ideas while they are drinking coffee, but then another coffee arrives and the day is soon over.

If all you do is talk about an amazing business, when do you actually have time to create and run an amazing business? Note: You need to have VIP Access to read the rest of this post: Subscribe to email list by clicking here.

  • Dreaming too much

Dreaming too much is crazy. Dreams are needed, but dreaming in excess is the same as talking a good talk, fatal. By dreaming I mean day dreaming, trawling the net, searching for the new Range Rover or looking at expensive houses or holidays. All this wasted time could be spent producing fresh content, promoting and working on the next phase of your development, all of which are productive, but take time to do. Close any browsers that are causing you to dream too much, until your work is done.

Dreaming can also come in the form of focus, or lack of it. Suddenly find yourself checking your twitter or facebook profile? Having a quick game of something or other, going to make a coffee and start reading the paper? Stop it right now, all those minutes add up to hours over the week and in one months time you could be in a great position, or the same position as everyone else.

  • Fear

Sometimes people dream because they think they will never be able to make it. So why dream if they know they will never make it? Because it keeps them in a dream world that is nicer than the reality in which they think they live in. Notice the emphasis on think, fear cripples people. Fear is an adult emotion that limits what a person can do.

I spent 10 years in the military of which, probably 9 of them were spent being scared. Fear is a tool to be used, but you have to approach it from a different way. Instead of thinking, ‘I can’t do it because I don’t have enough money’ or ‘There are too many people doing it already’ try approaching it like, ‘I don’t want to work for that jackass of a boss all of my life’, or ‘ I want a bigger house’, ‘I want people all over the world to see who I really am’, ‘If I don’t take this guy out, I’m done for!’

Fear can be the fire you need to drive you forward or the shackles which constrict who you are.

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