If You Have Big Dreams

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Do you have a big dream?

A dream so big that you'll have a hard time achieving it?

The most common problem people experience when they have big dreams is that their resources are smaller than their dreams.

You dream of travelling the world but your resource only allows you to travel around Luzon. You dream of living in a high rise luxurious condo but you can only afford a high ceiling bungalow. You dream of driving an SUV but your resources can only provide you with a Scooter. You dream of playing professional soccer abroad but you kick like you have no power.

Now there are two options that you can choose from when you have dreams bigger than your resources:

1. Lower your dreams to match your resources
2. Increase your resources to match your dreams

The conservative types would want the first option, just dream small so that it will be easier for you to achieve it. While the second option would be appealing to most people, increasing your resources so that you can achieve whatever dream you come up with.

I lean towards the second option as I believe it is the better choice among the two. However, it doesn't mean that we should just aim to always increase our resources to match our dream. On the contrary, there are certain dreams that needs adjusting that can match our resources.

How will we know which dream to adjust? Well Bro. Bo Sanchez offered a way to see which dreams your should adjust and which you need to increase your resources on. It can be found on where your dream is coming from.

Is your dream coming from pride? Do you dream of one day driving a sports car it will make you feel and look like a successful person, even if you are really not? Or do you dream of living in a big mansion, inside an exclusive village, just to show everyone that you're capable of affording it?

These are the type of dreams that you need to adjust to match your resources. Dreaming of something big just so you can boost your pride or ego won't really do you any good. You'd just be showing off, which could cause some people to hate or envy you. Pride driven dreams also don't have much fuel in them to keep you going, even through tough times. So if your dream is because of pride, you better adjust that dream to match your resources.

Is your dream coming from purpose? Do you dream of putting up a big business that will benefit a lot of people as it will provide jobs to hundreds and also a product and service that will make people's life better? Or do you dream of one day establishing a school, where it offers free education to street kids?

These are the type of dreams that you adjust your resources to match it. These are dreams that are given to you by God to serve a purpose for His people. These dreams provide a lot of good and benefit to a lot of people and not just you. Purpose driven dreams will also provide you with the fuel to keep on going even through tough times, because you know that this serves a great purpose bigger than you.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to have material things, but it's important that you check where this dream is coming from. Is it to serve a purpose? Or is t just to boost your pride and ego? If it is to serve a God's purpose, then you better adjust resources to match it. But if it is to serve only your ego, then adjust your dream to match your resources.

Dream big, but don't just dream to serve your ego, dream to serve others as well.

Be The Scriptwriter Of Your Life

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In my last post, I talked about the power that your thoughts and words have.

Now in connection to that, I'd like to share a lesson that Bro. Bo shared in one of his talks. The lesson is about being the scriptwriter of your life. It's part of a series of the things that you need to do to be truly rich.

Bro. Bo said that one secret to being truly rich is to be committed to your dreams. To be committed, you have to be specific to what you want in life. And the best way to do that is to be the scriptwriter of your own life.

A scriptwriter is someone who creates the script for a movie, tv show or play. So you being the scriptwriter simply means, that you put in writing everything that you want to happen in your life. There's no limit to it, just put everything in there and be very specific.

Bro. Bo used 15 pages to write the script of his life. He was very specific with most of the details that he wants to happen. I didn't need that much paper though, I only needed 4 sheets of a regular sized notebook to write down my script.

Why do you need a script? As I mentioned in my last post, our words are very powerful when it comes to influencing ourselves and others, that's why we need to always be wary of what we say to ourselves and to others.

In the same way, a script are written words, words that have the power to influence us. So if you were to write something down that you know has the power to influence you, wouldn't you write down the things that you want?

Writing them down is just the first part. After writing your script, it's important that you read it everyday. Read it day and night, after you wake up and before you go to sleep. Reading what you wrote down is the secret to making sure it happens in your life.

Why? Because as you read your script regularly and hear it, you're subconsciously influencing yourself to act in a way that will help you achieve that dream. It's as if you're always reminding yourself of the dreams and goals that you want to achieve in life.

Bro. Bo was able to already able to achieve most of the things that he wrote down in his 15 page script. I'm still on the journey of achieving most of mine (a few have already happened though).

So first take a moment of your time and write down what you want to happen in your life. Write down, specifically, everything that you want to happen. Write the kind of future that you would want for your life. Be the scriptwriter.

Then read what you wrote down regularly. Read it to remind yourself of it. 

What Is Your Goal In Life?

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What is your goal in life?

What do you want to achieve, say 5 years from now? 10 years from now?

You don't know yet? How about in the next year?

Still don't know yet?

Friends, it's important that you have a goal in life. A goal is your guide or direction on where you want your to go with your life. It's like giving purpose to your life. Without it, it's like you are just coasting along, waiting for things to just happen in your life.

But if you have a goal, you'll be putting direction in your life. You'll be aiming for something and your actions will then be directed towards achieving that goal.

It doesn't mean though that you have to achieve every goal you set. As I mentioned above, goals are like your guide. If you find yourself lost or without direction, just look at the goal you set then you'll know where you need to go or what you need to do.

So if you don't have a goal yet, it's time that you make one.