But they have to be combined with a real plan to actually move you along the path to making your dream come true. Harvey MacKay put it best when he said, “A dream is just a dream, a goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”
When you work on a goal with no plan of how to achieve it, your efforts are more likely to be disjointed. Without the focus a plan brings, you’re more likely to complete ta
sks w***y nilly, and drift around rather than progressing methodically toward your goal. This leads to both sporadic and less than optimal results. You’ve got to build a plan to get you from where you are to where you want to go. It will keep you on track, and minimize the detours that slow or delay your progress toward your goal. So if your dream is to write your first book, your plan could be to get up an hour earlier and write one thousand words a day prior to going to work. That way, when you set your alarm each day, you know what time to set your clock for. And when you wake up, you’ll know that it’s time to fire up the laptop to get typing. Besides, one of the great things about a plan is it helps you to track your progress along the way as well.
