Now that you've finished Step 2, I have one other thing I want you to do. It isn't necessary. You can live a happy life without it, but if you do this little exercise, it'll furnish you with some of the greatest memories you will ever have!

Take another page and put it in the three ring binder or whatever else you are using to keep your goals in.

On this page, write “DREAMS” in big letters across the top. 

Underneath, write “If I were rich, talented, and totally free to do whatever I wanted, what would I do?”

Now list your answers to that question. 

It’s okay if you can’t think of much, you will be able to go back and add whatever you want, later as you think of more things. 

The reason for keeping this list is because you can only really achieve what you believe you can. 

Well that’s not really true. 

You are capable of much much more than you realize, but you probably won’t actually do it. 

That’s because it is really hard to pursue a goal you believe is impossible. You have no motivation. 

Even though your realm of actually possibilities is unlimited, you have cut yourself off from most of them through your beliefs. 

If you could change your beliefs you could access all those, but changing one’s beliefs isn’t nearly as easy as self-help books like to claim. 

You can repeat “The sky is green and the grass is blue” a hundred times a day for the next ten years, but down deep you will never really believe it. 

If you are like most other people, you will probably only believe that you can do something if you can see realistically HOW it is possible. 

So how do you tap into all that potential? 

You know how an accomplishment can feel like a big deal until you do it and then it doesn’t seem that hard at all? 

It’s like that. 

You have to stretch yourself a bit and pursue goals that are inside the edge of what you believe is really possible. But like everything else, once you actually achieve them, they won’t seem like any big deal and the circle of things you believe you can do will get a lot bigger. 

When you get to the edge again, it will expand again. 

By writing down the dreams that you don’t really believe you can ever achieve, as your circle of possibility expands, you will find yourself unexpectedly within reach of some of those dreams!

By knowing all along what you want, when those dreams suddenly become attainable, you’ll know to reach out and grab them. 

Until then, they make for pleasant daydreams when you are feeling down. 

But someday, those impossible dreams will be pleasant memories.