How To Dream Big!

It was the renowned American publisher, John Johnson who once said, “Your success in life depends not on the place of your birth or colour of your skin but by the size of your hope”. Conrad Hilton also declared, “I am convinced that to accomplish big things, we must first dream big dreams”. And Napoleon Hill confirmed that “whatever you can conceive, you can achieve”.

Our lives will only change to the degree at which we change our thoughts. The quality of our lives will always be determined by the quality of our thoughts and expectations. We can’t rise above the level at which we think. To change our lives, we need to change what goes on in our minds. We achieve only in proportion of what we endeavour. You need to think big to achieve big. What you can’t conceive you can’t achieve. We become really remarkable when we start thinking we can do great things.

You see, nature is unbiased, impartial and neutral. It doesn’t care if you are black or white, male or female, Nigerian or American. It always rewards people according to their domineering thoughts in life, regardless of circumstances. Nature would never bless you beyond your level of expectation; it gives you only what you can visualise, what you are expectant of handling.

Research even reveals that the mental chemistry influences man’s life achievements. Our thoughts trigger off corresponding chemical change in the tissues of our body. Every thought which enters the mind is registered in the brain by a change in the structure of its cells. We habitually magnetise into our lives the situations and circumstances that are in accord with our dominant thoughts. Whatever we think about, we bring about. That’s why people who speak most of wealth always attract it and those who speak most of poverty also attract it in excess. It’s a law!

It is what you feed with your heart that ultimately becomes your reality. You only become what you believe. Likewise, it is what you expect from life that life gives you. It’s been said that whatever you feed with your mind for a long period of time enters into your heart and whatever enters into your heart eventually enters your life, and thus becomes your destiny.

For this reason, becoming successful is not the primary issue here. The most critical element to becoming successful is your mindset that has to be totally transformed. To achieve what you’ve never achieved before, you have to become who you’ve never been before. If you must succeed, changing your thought pattern is not optional. You must refurbish your mind to that of a truly successful person.

To achieve big you have to dream big. And to dream big, your mindset has to change. You must believe in your ability to handle extraordinary feats. Regardless of your present status, you must believe in the possibility of producing greater and outstanding results. Enter into your dream world; envisage your future. See yourself living the life of your dreams and solely believe in it. Dream big dreams, set bigger goals for yourself, act more on your goals and expect bigger results.

Dreaming big and setting large goals provokes brilliant ideas from your mental faculty towards attaining them. It attracts huge opportunities to you, and therefore, propels you to acting fast toward accomplishing your goals. All great achievers are great goal-setters. They set challenging goals. If you can’t set big goals, then you can’t achieve big feats, because ordinary goals lead to ordinary results. Extra ordinary goals, on the other hand, precede extra-ordinary results. You don’t attain extra ordinary feats via ordinary goals. To achieve big, you must dream big. Start thinking big of your wonderful future; after all, you have nothing to lose for it!

The truth is, you can achieve anything you desire or set out to achieve, no matter how big. You have been wired with the capacity to achieve extra ordinary feats from birth. In fact, I have realised that we can accomplish more than we can ever imagine. The only feats you can’t attain are the ones you are not capable of imagining; if you can imagine it, then you can achieve it. Fortunately, nothing is unimaginable. Therefore, everything is achievable! Go and succeed.