Trigger the trigger

Not a wish list

If you do not have a dream for your vital only one life, everything you do is a waste of precious time, efforts and the many opportunities that come your way. However, setting a useful and achievable dream can be challenging, rather impossible like one may chose to imagine. You have to consider your dream in the context of a larger perspective and purpose in life. In setting and understanding a dream, your first task would be to examine what triggered the decision to crystallize a dream. In many cases, the trigger could be an inner voice and your heart. Make sure that you fully understand it before you decide to frame your ideas. To do that, it would be helpful to ask yourself what triggered the trigger. In setting a dream you shall need to be strategic. You certainly don’t want to set a dream that is less than what you could achieve. But you also want to avoid setting a dream that is more than you can reasonably expect to achieve. Sometimes you will have to set aside a “Wish list” that is not feasible and settle instead for a rather modest dream that will lay the solid foundation for pursuing your long-term dream later on.

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Visualize why this is not done yet and keep ear to the ground

Different

Visualize how your dream is different from others and understand that your different approach may be due to an absolute return objective, low volatility relative to the stock market, your service is superior to that of your competitors or your dream (1) is it driven by results - The central focus for any business is that it needs to be profitable, fulfilling and ideas therefore should have one thing in common - to maximize return and minimize costs. (2) Your dream creates value to Customers - Customer has to be happy customer, it's as simple as that. Turning customers into happy customers with profitable business should be the primary goal. (3) Your dream provides Top solutions - Put a great deal of work into solutions and the value they bring to customers. (4) Your dream can Respect individuality and keep having fun! - Most importantly, you love what you do! You love helping people to become great and successful! You understand that behind every successful person and every idea, there are people with their own personalities and characters. You love working with people in happy, vibrant moods, building great and innovative solutions. (5) Your dream provides Diversity of Services: Contingent staffing and staff augmentation, project based solutions and others. You need to crystallize your thoughts - they must be different, unique and not done yet. Let’s understand why the dream is important and how to formulate that, simply put it, is talking to your inner voice, recognizing it and then taking it forward.

Top seven steps to script your dream!

Seven steps

Make it a habit to scribble ideas and thoughts that come to your mind while travelling, watching TV, waiting at airports, railway station, bus station and restaurant for a dinner, reading an interesting book or flipping through a boring news paper or when you are unable to sleep, you are unhappy, in tension and as and when you get ideas 24/7 before it is too late. Ideas come to our brain every living moment of our lives but what is important is to recognize, cajole, articulate, script and synthesize those ideas. For this, we need to make a conscious effort to link our inner voice with all the ideas continually. To begin with, gather information about the use and future of your dream and independently make lists of the thoughts for each individual part of your dream. Then draw a “Mind” map – what you see in your mind’s eye – in terms of small inter-related concepts, sub-groups. Gradually these sub-groups will crystallize further into concrete ideas and they result into crystal clear “Mind” map. One does not have to be an artist to draw this “Mind map”, rather, one has to just get down to jolting various thoughts and concepts. These thoughts and concepts, together, will help to shape your dream for the short and long-term. There are no hard and fast rules for establishing dreams.  However, they should necessarily answer “how much” and “when”. State a dream in quantified terms and specific times set. Set your dream in the context of the previously established accomplishments. One dream may have several goals to be achieved. Set dream from the short and long-term perspective, what’s the proper time frame for your dream? How far out should your planning horizon be - one year, three years, or maybe five years? Memorizeyour dream everyday and visualize what it would feel like once achieved. The more you visualize, the more you ponder over your dream, it becomes that much more realistic. At this point, it may also be a good idea to create a dream board with pictures of the dream you are aiming for, that would haunt every waking moment. Find a mentor or one who has achieved a similar dream or is in the field you are working toward. Research what things they have done that have helped and challenged them along their path to success. This may guide your own path for success, but we cannot just copy and create situations, contexts, scenarios or people for they are dynamic and complex and keep changing from era to era. However you can certainly draw similarities and references that would help and guide you.

Top seven steps (No one can do. You can only do it. You can, if you need.)

• Scribble and jot down all the ideas
• Select the ideas with complete statements
• Stitch them into common groups
• Sketch the common groups & individual ideas as your dream Map (Mind Map)
• Scale all the links and each node with an draft order of priority
• Study one more time all the nodes, groups, images and details
• Start your execution plans (Derived from the above six points)

Visualize why it is enjoyment for you

Finding out what you really love to do in it a great accomplishment which most people don't realize until late in their lives. You enjoy your dream so it is your job to find your dream. However, not everybody understands their dream and most importantly, not everybody finds a suitable one. Hence, most people end up doing what they do not enjoy. This is the reason why most say that one should take up a job only if they enjoying doing it. It is a fact that we would do well at something if we like or enjoy doing it.  Roger Federer is believed to be the greatest tennis player of all time, winning 17 major titles in his career as on 10/9/2012. His success is attributed to his perseverance in doing what he loves and enjoyed the most.

When you start doing what you enjoy, you will do well in that particular field mainly because it interests you and also because you don’t get fed up,  get tired every day, feeling that no one is recognizing, your efforts and that you are doing it because you have no other options. When we do a job that we enjoy, it is usually easy to do and even if it is hard, you would still strive to achieve it since you want to become the best in the field of your preference and pleasure. So, the is best is to do select a dream that you can thoroughly enjoy since it will enable you to do well and reach your desired heights without too much of a hassle.

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Visualize Uniqueness and you need to raise quite a few eyebrows

The focus of uniqueness is to allow yourself to respond to an external or internal opportunity and using those creative ideas trigger and deploy the creative juices of the whole concept toward the continuous development of your success. You need to be novel, useful, purposeful and non-obvious, which earns you uniqueness. “Graphical interface and mouse that were first invented at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.”. It boils down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then they try to bring these things into what you are doing” said Steve Jobs in a television documentary “Triumph of the Nerds” in 1996”. The visualization can be viewed as an evolutionary integration of yourself, your ideas and the ecosystem by iterating series of activities, concept, clarity, uniqueness and implementation. Uniqueness thus becomes one of the key for success and below are some of such profound examples.

Steve Jobs dropped out of Stanford after six months and took up creative courses such as calligraphy for the next 18 months. His creative and technical inclination led him to set up Apple Inc., which is worth over $600 billion.

Dhirubhai Ambani the billionaire tycoon who started Reliance Industries in 1996 with just INR 1,50,000, never studied beyond class 10. During his life time he rose to become one of India’s richest men and today Reliance Market Cap is around INR 64,000 crores.

Anna Wintour, the highly feared and respected editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, the bible for the global fashion industry, quit studies at the age of 15. Hard work and razor sharp brain kept her at the top for over 20 years.
Note: Next one will be on 13/Dec/2012:"Visualize why your dream is enjoyment for you" 

Be Unique

Bring “The clarity of thoughts” straight from your heart

Every morning and evening, rather 24x7 our minds are bringing with thoughts, dreams, ideas and issues. At times we are fed up while at other times overwhelmed by our thoughts and thoughts attached to future, past & present. We find it difficult control, channelize, funnel down and prioritize them. We can’t synthesize them. There are many paths and therefore many options it keep us going into infinite thinking loops. We wonder how to articulate our ideas more clearly and how to put them in a clear map of thoughts. Human beings are bestowed with a powerful capacity to think which no other species on earth has. The secret of our strength is the power of knowledge gained through thinking and thinking. We can analyse scenarios, limitations, strengths and can take various decisions whenever necessary. But our thinking can be confusing at one time and clear at other times. Sometimes, it’s you who are confusing yourself, to avoid making decisions. Reasons could vary – you don’t want to take responsibility, you don’t believe you can make the right decision etc. Stop if so. How objectively can one see themselves and others as we really are?  By removing the distortion and the surrounding fog of emotions, we can find a true and realistic purpose in our life and make good decisions that will allow you to achieve both - personal and career goals. The clarity of thoughts is based upon the premise that we as professionals such as doctors, subject matter experts and lawyers, practice our professions effectively not because of any inherent intellectual capabilities over the remaining mortals, but as ones who have learnt the concepts of their trade, methods, processes, competencies, analysis, risks and a vocabulary that allows them to think efficiently and thus practice those concepts.  You need to remove the infinite loops from your distortions of the fog of emotions and bring clarity to your thoughts. This clarity of thoughts will free you to make good decisions and help you experience the happiness that comes from finding a true and realistic sense of purpose and lead you on the path of achieving your personal and career goals. Even top intellectuals take wrong decision at some point of time due to lack of clarity in thoughts. The biggest obstacle in the way of success is the lack of clear thoughts. A man with clear plans and thoughts will always be a champion and be able to achieve his goals.