Distinguishing Dreams from Goals

Introduction

We are coming up to the halfway point in 2024. Can you believe it! Time flies!!! For June, I’m doing a 4-part series on Amplifying Your Goal Setting. Setting goals is a powerful process that helps you turn your dreams into reality. However, it's essential to distinguish between a mere wish and a true goal.

?Understanding True Goals

A dream is something you wish for, but a goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. Ahh, and in there lies the reason for the mid-year newsletter series on Amplifying Goal Setting. Do you have written goals for 2024 as well as a plan to achieve them? Whether your answer is yes, or no, this newsletter series will help with amplification.

We’ll start with a simple exercise that will be valuable for our mid-year refocus. In our journey to achieve our desires, we need to focus on four key areas of life, a process we call "Diamond Mining." The four areas are Professional Success, Financial Independence, Family & Relationship, and Health and Fitness.

?Diamond Mining Process

Diamond Mining helps you identify your starting point and your desired state in each area of life, creating a broader, balanced diamond. This balance ensures full satisfaction across all aspects of your life.

I’m including a simple worksheet in the comments section below. Take 10-20 minutes to go through this exercise and then create 1-3 goals around the 4 areas of your life. We’ll use these in subsequent newsletter articless in this 4 part series.

?Conclusion

By setting clear, true goals, you are not just dreaming but laying down a roadmap to your desired future. Remember, a goal without a plan is just a wish.