If you are a different thinker there is a strong chance that you are also a dreamer. You are thinking up big ideas for your future, my future, everyone’s future. I get to talk with people about their dreams all the time. It is so exciting to hear how they see something and how they understand it can be done better or differently.
Do you want to know the difference between those that dream and those that achieve their dreams?
You are not going to believe how simple this is.
Those that achieve their dreams say to themselves, to others, to anyone who will listen. “How can I make this happen?” They are asking this question all the time or a version of this question that applies to the situation.
Would you like to make this shift in your thinking? I am going to assume you said yes. Great!
Think of a little challenge you are dealing with right now? Something that is just annoying and it would be nice if you didn’t have to deal with it anymore.
Got that challenge in your mind, front and center?
Now, ask yourself, “how could I make this problem disappear?”
Take a moment to write down every idea and option that comes to mind. There is no bad idea at this point. Once you run out of ideas then you can ask yourself, “which one of these should I take action on?”
What is next is the important part. Look at your calendar and place it on your schedule.
Now, that you feel this process, move up to a bigger idea or a bigger challenge.
I have had some ideas and dreams and asked that question for over twenty years. I never gave up on them, I just kept taking one small action at a time. How do you think I got my business to where it is today? How do you think I am building my best life that works mostly in my strengths?
You can do the same and believe in you and I can’t wait to see what you make happen.
Asking yourself this question, “How can I make this happen?” is part of a growth mindset.
If you want to learn more about building and creating a growth mindset keep following, I share these nuggets all the time. They changed my life and I know they can and will change yours.
I would love to hear your dreams and ideas. Please feel free to share.
Thanks for spending some time with me and helping me grow.
Coach JoyGenea
Video transcription:
So this week, one of the things I’m talking about in particular is, “How do I make this happen?”
It’s a common statement used for people that are growth mindset, that are high achievers, that are top performers. It’s an internal dialogue. It’s a common item that they instantly say. Something happens and they go, oh well, what am I, you know, like, how do I turn this to my advantage? How do I make this happen positively for me? How does this experience turn into a learning opportunity? How do I… and so on.
So in particular, this week, I’m focusing in my article about when we have ideas in particular, and when we have super beautiful dreams, how do we make those happen? And are we asking that often enough? That’s the bigger question: How do I make this happen?
And honestly, it’s a great question for me. A quick story: I’m standing here in the middle of Wisconsin at, um, what’s going to be shortly a BMW rally. Those few tents you see there will multiply into hundreds of tents behind me and hundreds of motorcycles going by me. That’s not happening yet, ’cause it’s really early in the morning.
But my “how do I make this happen” is, 20 years ago I saw my first adventure bike and I met my first adventure rider who was traveling across the United States on their motorcycle. And I went, I wanna do that. From that moment on I was always asking, how do I make that happen? I followed their blueprint, but that wasn’t the right fit.
So when I got there and was starting to travel cross country on my motorcycle, I went, you know what, this isn’t quite it. It’s not as much fun as I thought it would be. So I grew to modify it a little bit and a little bit more until now. I’m actually at a place where it works really well in my life. I do get to travel the country and ride my motorcycle in new and different places. I just trailer the motorcycle there instead of riding it there, because I don’t have the free time for that. And I don’t know that I want to. It’s maybe not me, and that’s okay.
But when I first started out, what I really want you to hear is: when you have that idea, and you know, you’re like, hmm, I wanna make that happen, that’s when you ask, How do I make that happen? The first thing that came to mind at the time was, I probably need to learn to ride a motorcycle. That took me two, three years to just not be scared—scared, scaredified, scared and crapless—every time I got on a motorcycle, like I was gonna die.
And then after that, well, how do we actually camp? And, and, and it just kept expanding.
So my question to you: what dream do you have? What idea or thought have you had that, boy, I’d love to be doing that? My next question is, how do you make that happen?
And then I encourage you, whatever answers come next, don’t filter them for a couple of minutes. Just let them all flow, and then decide: is there one action in here that I could actually take, that will move me closer to How do I make this happen?
You will be surprised at the results you create for yourself when you have that mindset. You gotta clear out the cobwebs and you gotta get rid of the, oh, I’ll never do that, that’s not possible. It is possible. But it’s not possible when you’re telling yourself it’s not. It is possible when you tell yourself you can make that happen.
I’m JoyGenea, International Neurodiversity Coach, championing for different thinkers to recognize their strengths, embrace them, and get out there and think differently, and help change the world. Bye now.