Dare to Dream, the First Step Towards the Top of Success

Brian Tracy once said that all successful people, men and women alike, were great dreamers in the first place. What are great dreamers like? Are they people with extraordinary talents? Not necessarily. They are just ordinary people like you and me, and even some of them have deficiencies of some sorts, whether physically disabled, dropouts or coming from poor families.

On March 2001, Maarten Van Der Weijden, a 19 years old Dutch swimming athlete, was found to suffer from leukemia. Doctors said he had little chance to survive for long. He had to undergo a cell transplation and chemotherapy treatment that left him so weak he was unable to sit nor stand. He also lost much weight. But he defiantly struggle to recovery and resolutely returned to swimming. Only eight years later, as recent as August 21, 2008, taking part unseeded in the 10 km marathon swimming event in Beijing Olympic Games, he topped his success by winning the gold medal, beating his top seeded rivals! Amazing!

Could you imagine how it was like almost half a century ago when some scientists dreamed about going to the moon? Public opinion then was in calling it a foolish dream. No wonder people with great dreams were considered as fools or nuts until eventually they came to successfully reach their dreams earlier denied by many.

Time was when Thomas Alva Edison dared to dream his crazy dream and succeeded in inventing electric bulbs that keep people out of darkness ever since.

Here I would like to present a simple guidance to build and treat your dreams.

First, you must write your dreams on a piece of paper. Write what you desire to achieve or to get most, and never for once you come to such negative thought like : “Well, I don’t think this dream could ever be …..” or “I must be crazy to put these dreams on paper ….” You too mustn’t restrict you dreams, just simply write all dreams you want.

Then, after you finish writing that list of you dreams, look them over to set up a priority scale of the ones you’d like to achieve first. You could start with the simpler and easier dreams which afterwards could serve as stepping stones to reach the greater ones.

One more important point to attend is to set a time limit for each dream successively. You must decide wisely how much time it should take in pursuing each particular dream.

Fix the paper containing the list on a place most frequently seen to keep you reminded and reaffirmed any moment that you have dreams to pursue and struggle for.

But just by daring to dream does not guarantee any success what so ever. There are consequential steps to take and challenging stages to go through. Anyhow by making a written list of your dreams you have taken one initial and essential step which not all people dare even to take. As Lao Tzu put it long ago : “A journey of a thousand steps is started by one first step”, and you dare to take that step.