How To Chase Your Dreams (Step-by-Step Guide)

Ever wondered how successful people make it happen? What makes them different from everyone else?

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It’s not as complicated as it seems. In fact the knowledge for how to chase your dreams is surprisingly straight forward . So let’s get to the good stuff, shall we?

The First Step is Always the Hardest

For some reason (unbeknownst to me) there appears to be a stigma attached to having high expectations of oneself and going after such standards of achievement with full force. Now that I come to think of it, I believe they call it competitiveness. The truth is that those who shut you down, criticise you or call you out for being overly ambitious are essentially nothing more than fearful. Fearful of others’ success – moreover, your success. That’s okay. They will spend more energy hating on your dreams than creating your own, leaving you all the time and effort in the world to pursue positivism in your own life.

A Plan of Action

The next step is a logical one. Having a goal is one thing, but having a detailed outline of how you will achieve it is like putting down a hefty downpayment and saying “now I’m gonna do it… & here’s how”.

The Attack Phase

So you’ve declared it to the world (and yourself), so now its time for world domination. So what next? Let’s call this “The Attack Phase”. Characteristics of TAP include: sleepless nights, 15 hour workdays, waking up one morning to realise you haven’t had a day off in 3 months, endless research on the interwebs, mindmaps, mood boards, pin boards, to-do lists, networking…. and all round madness. But the attack phase is where it all comes together and takes place before your eyes. You don’t get to the good stuff until you put in the hard yards… so how badly do you want it?

Don’t lose momentum

One of the most important things to remember during and immediately after the attack phase (when you’ve received some recognition for your work) is to never lose momentum. Without being overly competitive, its important to remember that anything you can do, someone else can do better. That thought should terrify and motivate you.

Goals, Goals, Higher Goals

Steve Jobs had it right with the following quote –

Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

It should never be about the hurdles you face or even those you have overcome, it should always be about the future – aiming higher, achieving more, being brighter and being better.

Never Give Up

There will of course be days where you don’t believe in your dreams, question them, rethink them, lose sight in them or even deem them a failure. But failure is good – it makes the next attempt better. Try it again and fail better. Fail until you succeed. Fail for the sake of failing. Don’t be afraid of failing – it is undeniably the biggest drawback to success because if you don’t try, you’ll never know.

Never give up on your dreams. If you don’t chase them, someone else will.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.