If You Can Dream It, You Can Achieve It

A man, along with a friend, one day in a garage dreamed of creating a computer that could not be opened, that did not have a USB connection, that was incompatible with almost everything and that anyone in the world wanted it despite its price and even if he didn’t need it. It was Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, one of the most important companies that exist today. This shows us that indeed if you can dream it, you can achieve it.

Many ideas, many dreams, when they first arise seem crazy, but they are not. They are innovative ideas that are ahead of their time, that break with everything and suppose a different way of seeing things. To achieve them, it is necessary to have great courage in the face of the obstacles that we will find before our dreams, but the illusion will push us forward.

Dreaming about it is just the beginning

A dream is an image that we perceive as real in our mind while we sleep, but sometimes that image is so clear that we seem to be living the dream situation for real. Sometimes we can even get to perceive how it smells, what taste we feel, what we touch in that dream.

Many writers and painters have created their works from the world of dreams, because sometimes an unconscious manifests that allows us to free ourselves from the bonds of the real world, giving way to a different world.

Dreaming of something that we are passionate about, of a reality that we desire, is only the first step to create an image in our mind. A canvas that will gradually gain clarity and will be the seed that will grow fed by our illusion. Dreaming it is the beginning.

Listen to your intuition

Intuition can be defined as the ability to understand or decide quickly, in an instant. So fast that the process usually escapes our awareness and we don’t know how to explain it in a logical way.

In a single day we make thousands of decisions : what to wear, which way to go to work, what means of transport to use … All these decisions are made quickly, because if they were not, our day to day would be a constant indecision in which we would waste a lot of time.

Social psychology until ten years ago held that a good decision, faced with a complicated and momentous crossroads, had to be based on a reasoning process that started from an exhaustive analysis of the situation. Yes, we mean those two lists that we have all faced at times: elements in favor vs elements against.

However, we soon realized two aspects:

• The reality is often so complex that it is impossible to put it in the form of lists.
• Even having completed the exercise perfectly, not all the items on the list weigh the same.

At the same time, we studied successful people and realized that they passed from the famous lists. The  decisions of famous people were characterized by being fast and precise, more linked to intuition. It was what “at that moment I felt”, “I had a hunch”, “I did it without thinking”, and so on. From then on, psychologists began to wonder if the rational horse we were betting on was really going to be the winner.

Thus, currently we not only know that intuition is valid but that it often exceeds the success that a computer can have that is capable of performing millions of operations at the same time or ourselves following a logical and conscious process to reach a conclusion.

Intuition manifests itself with emotions and physical sensations. If we want to make a decision, it is advisable that we focus on what we feel, what physical impact one decision or another produces on us. Are you feeling good, are you feeling uncomfortable, are you feeling happy? What does each decision make you feel if you think about it? Dreaming about it, what makes you feel and think about it?

The way to achieve your dreams

The path to your dreams can be complicated, but it is a path that you must trace yourself, setting small goals that you can achieve to finally reach that much desired dream. Setting small initial goals that are possible is what will strengthen our confidence and what will make us see that we can move forward if we do it step by step, after dreaming it.

An important aspect to achieve our dreams is confidence in ourselves. If we do not trust that we are going to achieve it, no one will trust. That is why it is important to set feasible and close goals in time, because each time we achieve them we will reinforce the idea that our dream can become reality.

Pro-activity is also essential because we cannot allow ourselves to get stuck at the slightest difficulty or wait for things to happen without doing anything. Nobody is going to come looking for us and offer us our dream, it is something that we will have to build with a lot of effort, with a daily work and with all our enthusiasm.

But remember, dreaming about it is the first step in starting to shape your goal or objective.