A FLURRY OF DREAMS — and ATTAINMENT OF GOALS.

 Dreams and goals are personal aspirations that motivate and guide us through life.

Dreams are more abstract, representing our deepest desires or visions for the future.

Conversely, Goals are more specific and actionable steps that empower us to turn dreams into reality. They can range from short-term objectives like learning skills to building a career, starting a family, or contributing to society.

Remember, dreams written down with a date become goals. When these goals are broken down into steps, they become plans. And when these plans are backed by action, they turn dreams into realities. Setting and pursuing goals is not just a journey, it’s a powerful tool that empowers you to achieve your dreams.

It’s important to remember that it’s not just dreams that come true, but goals. Goals have the transformative power to turn our dreams into reality. Dreams without goals are just dreams—likely to succumb to the eccentricity of the overactive mind. But with goals, these dreams become a roadmap to a brighter future.

 I dream a lot during the night. Someone advised me to write down my dreams. Discussing them later could illuminate my hidden desires and personality traits. However, nothing significant could be deciphered from the broken versions, as most stories were irrelevant and atrociously stupid.

We all daydream, don’t we? Daydreaming is the Pandora’s box of an innocent and benign activity that causes no harm to anyone. Through this magic box, images of goals emerge that eventually become challenging.

Daydreaming does carry some weight. During free periods at school or long drives with my parents, I used significant imagination, like ‘Johnny Head in the Air’ by Heinrich Hoffman. I visualised issues relating to education, career, and sensuality. In this process, goals were set and envisioned, and I became the Doctor I had dreamed of. I did justice by accomplishing what I dreamt.

The only thing that can stop or encourage you from fulfilling your dreams is you. The laudable thing is having no path, light, leading finger, or invisible North Star. Treading the route millions have trailed is like a Rat Race. Limiting yourself due to others’ inadequate imagination and perception shouldn’t be done.

‘A dreamer can find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.’ OSCAR WILDE

There is a very interesting Japanese proverb: “Vision without action is a Daydream. Action without Vision is a Nightmare.”

The biggest enigma in life is — who decides our goals? Is it the parents’ job and responsibility to set goals for their children and nurture them with constant persuasion and force?

Why do doctors, lawyers, or businessmen visualise only one frame for their unborn children? They envisage the child emulating them.  The child is dumb and does not have the calibre to set his goals. He survives and toils to live up to his parents’ dreams. What happens to the child’s dreams?  What if the child wanted to become a wildlife photographer instead of an engineer?

ALBERT EINSTEIN wisely said-‘ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.’

 Tips for Parents —

*Give space to the children to comprehend their thoughts and opinions. Every naïve and juvenile mind has dreams that require courtesy and consideration. Those molten glass pieces need proper blowing and cooling, which makes them expensive chinaware.

As parents, it’s crucial to listen to their children’s dreams and support them wholeheartedly in achieving their goals. Stress and unhappiness often stem from the inability to fulfil or achieve what they’ve envisioned or have set out to do.

* Never give up on them, feeling their dreams to be mundane and time-consuming to accomplish.

*Encourage them to make decisions independently—this is the first step to achieving their goals. Happiness comes when we set a goal that commands our thoughts, liberates our energy, and inspires our hopes. A goal without a plan is only a dream: an unaccomplished, fading dream.

*Teach them philosophy—’To get something you never had; do something you never did.’

*Inculcate the power of planning — Goals are pure fantasy if there is no specific plan to achieve them.

It’s crucial to tell them not to be perturbed by ridicule because they are different. Instead, they should laugh at the mockers because they are like rats in a race. Embracing their uniqueness and staying true to their dreams is the key to success.

*Assure them that you support their dreams and will help them achieve their goals. Remember, the first step is often the hardest and most important. You don’t have to see the entire staircase; just take the first step.

*Assure them that the only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting anything at all.

Set goals, but don’t wait for triumph to bring you happiness. I slogged through twenty years of studying to become a successful professional. I compromised my passions because the boundaries of my goal precipice were too high. I succeeded after losing life’s most valuable twenty years.

There is no age to dream and set goals. Be agile and intelligent to dream new dreams. Start it today because if it doesn’t begin today, it won’t be finished tomorrow. It is hard at times to keep a dream alive. It may seem impossible and improbable, but summon your willpower and subconscious mind to make it inevitable.

Some people make a living by desiring what they don’t have; they are blind to what they have. The truth is that what we have now was once among the things that we had hoped for.

“You see things, and you say, why? But I dream of things that never were, and I say, why not?” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.

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