“Dream Small”
Sometimes your dream is sooooooo big that it becomes overwhelming for you. You want to learn English but you are dreaming the end goal when you are super fluent and extremely confident. That’s the image that your mind has created. There is a problem though. Now, speaking at a lower level makes you feel uncomfortable. You want everything to be easy, perfect and smooth. You are dreaming big. The very goal of the dream is stopping you from achieving the dream. You know that you don’t have to do it today because you will do it when you have good amount of free time. You will do it once everything is settled. Things will never be settled. Life keeps on flowing like rivers, like oceans, like mountains, like trees and flowers.
“Dream small”
As a coach I have two choices every day. I can dream big and visualize how one day I will be a world class coach and how there will be millions of followers on my social media and how I will speak at so many events. But these things put me in competition with all the top coaches in the market. These things overwhelm me and scare me because the dream is too big that I will stop functioning only.
I have another way also to look at it. I keep it small. instead of worrying about massive followers, huge workshops, and big events, I plan my day around who I can serve today. I focus on how many sessions I have to conduct TODAY. I focus on how I can interact with my online community through quizzes and content TODAY. My everything is about today. And I do it every day. I will still reach the goal. James Clear, the author of Atomic habits, has an article on his website that talks about “Foucussing on systems instead of goals”. It’s an amazing article. It talks about importance of building every day habits and systems that help you move ahead in life. He says you can achieve the goal without even worrying about the goal.
This suddenly becomes easier. I keep things small. Achievable. Instead of dreaming about how one day I will have hundreds of blogs on my website, I focus on the blog that I can write today. Rather than planning a series of videos for my instagram, I create videos as and when needed. Wherever there’s a common query from my students, I answer it in a video. This way I don’t have to worry about hiring a video company or a huge to do list. I just have to make a small video today and share. That’s it. Keeping it small.
Just take care of your today. I read somewhere “take care of days and your years will take care of themselves”
