From Dream to Reality: Detailed Steps to Make Your Dreams Come True, Step One

1. Clarify Your Vision

Actionable Steps:

• Write It Down: Take 10 minutes to write a detailed description of your dream. Use specific details like what it looks like, feels like, and how it will impact your life.
• Create a Vision Board: Gather images, quotes, and symbols that represent your dream. Arrange them on a board or digital canvas to visualize it daily.
• Define Your “Why”: Ask yourself why this dream is important to you. Write down 3–5 reasons to keep you motivated.

For my brain, some small daily actions that I can look at towards goals are best. My brain tends to be all over the place and over-flowing with ideas and thoughts that are hard to quiet. Sitting down and making some actionable goals helps me to be able to tackle things without feeling overwhelmed with the bigger picture, which can send me into a sort of paralysis.

Taking a few minutes to write down a detailed description of a goal helps it to become less of a noisy drum in my head, and more of a real thing that I can do something about. Also, being as detailed as possible can help me to then organize my actionable steps toward then end goal. For example, if I want to grow my saffron crop, I need to figure out where I want to expand it on the property, where I can find the bulbs for a decent price, how I need to prepare the plot (ie, clearing tall grasses, and making sure water is accessible), so that it becomes more reality based and less of a vague idea floating around amidst other ideas.

The next action is creating a vision board. Oddly enough, I am a very visual person, but making a vision board for my goals is extremely difficult. In my mind, if I put something down, (an image), all of a sudden my brain thinks that it is permanent. When in reality, these images are just “ideas” that can grow and change, or become something else entirely. I suspect that in elementary school my teachers tried to teach me something similar to this with planning out big projects, but for some reason it didn’t stick! Everything was just overwhelming, and I continued along this path with big goals feeling unachievable because it was too big and too overwhelming, and what if I messed up, and if I put an image down then I MUST STICK TO WHAT I PUT DOWN. When in reality, things grow and change. And the change is ok, I have learned with time and growing older. You can have a picture in your mind, like I have with some garden and farming ideas, but for whatever reason those images had to change due to various circumstances. So CHANGE is REALLY OK. And many lessons can be learned from putting down images and discovering that they need to change. This is a learning experience as well as a goal oriented experience.

Having your vision board easily accessible, to see it on a regular basis, is so important as well. When you have goals, you want to be able to keep them at the forefront on your “importance meter”. Out of sight, out of mind is how the saying goes. It’s easy to forget about the things that are “dreams” when the day to day is keeping you busy. Displaying your vision board somewhere prominent is a huge motivator.

The last part of this step is Defining Why you want to tackle this goal. Has it always been a dream? Is there a bigger goal in mind and this is a stepping stone in that direction? No matter what the reason, defining it can be liberating. It gives you a solid vision and purpose when you can define the reasons behind something. You could think of this part as your mission statement!

I struggle so much with clarifying things, so this breakdown of each step towards my goals is helping me immensely to make things become a reality. There is a really good book that I just finished reading called, The Source by Tara Swart, which talks a lot about Manifesting things. But when I think of “Manifesting”, it seems like some crazy new-agey kind of thing. But the way Tara talks about it, Manifesting is more about optimizing your brain power and organizing yourself enough to reach your goals and make things possible for yourself by tackling your fears and misgivings about your goals. It’s worth a read. And may a good addition to someone’s tool box towards reaching goals successfully.