What is a dream?

What is a dream? Is a dream a fantasy of something that you wish you had but are not willing to work for it? Is a dream a hope or an aspiration that you would like to have with or without effort? Is a dream a goal that is important to you and you will make reasonable efforts to achieve? Or is a dream an inner drive that you have little control over and feel that you must accomplish? The ability to differentiate between these concepts or definitions of a dream is what gives you more control of your life.

— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)

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And clarify, for yourself, what you even mean by a dream: is it a fantasy you will not work for, an aspiration you would like with or without effort, a goal you will make real efforts toward, or an inner drive you feel you simply must accomplish? Telling these apart is itself a way of taking back control of your life. [Here is the place for my own turbulence — write in, or let me tell you, about a goal I lost the motivation for, what drained it, and what rekindled it.] — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)

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