Be unrealistic about your dreams:

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Be unrealistic about your dreams.

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Make them as crazy as you can imagine.

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Believe in the impossible.

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Then go execute and get it done.

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Bryce Harper, the superstar baseball player, is in the World Series right now.

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He was featured in a New York Times article as a 13-year-old kid who said he wanted to make the MLB.

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The article was about unrealistic baseball dreams at too young an age.

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How can you tell a 13-year-old his dreams aren’t real?

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Now he’s leading his team to a finals appearance on baseball’s biggest stage.

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He was unrealistic about his dreams and never wavered.

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Many athletes say they knew at a young age they wanted to make the league.

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And that’s all they thought about.

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Now, this is a classic case of confirmation bias because we only know about the people who make it.

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What about all the people who don’t?

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Those who had the biggest dreams and didn’t get as lucky?

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Had injuries, were in the wrong situation, got too involved with drugs/alcohol, or something else.

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How many what-ifs are out there?

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So of course all the athletes who've made it will say they always thought it was their dream.

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Here’s the lesson - you don’t know if you can get lucky.

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You don’t know what will happen tomorrow, none of us do.

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You may not get lucky.

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But you should have something you’re working towards.

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Some dream.

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Something that feels so out of bounds you would be afraid to tell people about it.

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Dream it.

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See it.

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Then write it down.

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Now.

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Like right now open your phone and write it down.

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No matter how crazy.

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No matter how insane.

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Think about what you want and write it down.

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Remember the phrase, repeat it to yourself every day, visualize yourself being there.

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And watch your mind go to work.

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Your brain will uncover opportunities you never thought existed.

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Napoleon Hill discussed this in Think and Grow Rich - the original Secret.

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It worked for the richest men in the American 20th century.

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All had a similar pattern and mindset.

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They let nothing hold them back from conceiving, believing then executing on their dreams.

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Do the same.

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You can do it.

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Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you and themselves.

They don’t want to believe you.

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That’s ok.

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You don’t need their belief.

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You need yours.

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You need to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

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Because the road will be far from easy.

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But it will be worth it.

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At the end, you’ll be sitting working towards your dreams while everyone else is lost around you.

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Believe it and go get it done.

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Those unrealistic dreams you wrote down?

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Make them realistic.

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