Five Top Tips for Materialising Your Dreams

By Fiona Harrold | 6 Comments

Dreams DO come true, as Caroline Goyder knows very well, with the publication of her book The Star Qualities.

What steps can you take to move your dreams out of your head and into the real world?

Materialise Your Dreams1. Know you can do this

If not you, then who?

Don’t undermine yourself by thinking you’re not smart enough, connected enough, or whatever you might decide makes you the wrong person to undertake your dream.

If you need someone to show faith in you and lend you some strength and belief, go get it – from a smart friend, colleague or coach.

2. Dream big

Intoxicate yourself with the vision of your dream manifesting. Get high on seeing how amazing it’s success will be.

Ensure the dream is big enough and write out a bold statement of intent that includes the benefits it’s success will bring. If it’s a book – what difference do you want it to make to others? If it’s a charitable venture – who benefits?

3. Get practical

This is the time to sit down and get very focused.

It’s important to stay inspired but it’s also vital to get on with the work of making it happen, step by step, day by day, week by week.

4. Inspire others

Your dream will require the support of others to make it happen.

Ensure your vision is not perceived as a ‘vanity mission’ but a grand, generous venture that will benefit all. Check that your colleagues all have a personal vested interest in co-operating on the mission.

Read over the chapter, Inspire Others in The 7 Rules of Success for more on this.

5.  Have fun now!

Don’t withhold relaxing and celebrating until some far-off completion date.

Fuel yourself along the way with minor celebrations of your success. When your team meet, meet in great places so the mission is anything but dull. Hard work doesn’t have to be grim.

Keep your morale strong by staying light along the way – however serious your mission.

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  • On 21 October 2009 at 5:30 pm Queen Nworgu said:

    Very interesting points raised Fiona, thanks :-)

    I have quite a few dreams that I really need to not give up on. I am writing two books at hand which is quite tiring. Sometimes you feel that your typing and typing and it seems like forever (while trying to get to the word limits) I am determined that I can complete at least one of the books by the end of the year and I am determined to be a success. I believe that my books will inspire, refresh and uplift people.

    Many thanks Fiona for your great tips :-)

  • On 22 October 2009 at 10:00 pm Janis said:

    I am a big believer in believing you can achieve anything you want to – but I am having such problems in believing in myself! One of my main problems is trying to distinguish what my dream actually is. How do you know what your real dream is? I wander and think of so many things – I don’t focus – how do I turn that around and find my dream so that it excites me and gives me the chance to follow through?

  • On 29 October 2009 at 6:36 am Alan said:

    The tip to ‘Dream Big’ really resonated with me. A few years ago I lived with my wife & son in Dubai. My son’s teacher asked the pupils what they wanted to be & added the advice, ‘Don’t say a Premier League footballer because you’ll never make it’. My son, to his credit, said ‘Premier League footballer’.

    Shortly afterwards, Manchester United started a soccer school in Dubai. Sir Alex Ferguson came over to open the school. I’ve never forgotten his advice to the children at the opening: ‘have a dream & make it a big one!’

    Two years later, now aged 14, my son decided to move to the UK to try to make it as a footballer. He managed to get a place at Millfield College, a top sports school, & is putting everything into trying to making it as a footballer. I don’t know if he’ll make it but he is gaining so much from dreaming big & really going for his dream.

  • On 2 November 2009 at 9:37 am AJ Kulatunga said:

    Hi Fiona,

    this is a fantastic post! I’d say the biggest killer of one’s dreams is that people let their dreams get destroyed by others who never achieved theirs.

    I love your tips because if you follow them you will start to notice that the conversations that you have in your head and those around you will start to move you one step closer towards achieving your goals and it builds up momentum little by little.

    Keep up the great work Fiona!

    Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

    The Dream Guy – AJ~

  • On 8 November 2009 at 2:14 pm Chantelle Smith said:

    I am on my journey to becoming a fully trained Life Coach and NLP Practitioner and naturally have some anxieties about getting started and making a success of this new direction in my life. This site has reinforced that my decision to opt for a career change was the right one for me. Doing so has already allowed me to take huge leaps of self faith by transforming some of my limiting beliefs into positives and that dreaming for bigger and better can and will pay off with the right attitude, guidance and support – most of all self belief that the power of change lies within us all.

  • On 4 May 2011 at 7:36 am mikerosss said:

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