How to achieve your dreams in life and be successful

There are many people who think that dreaming about something is enough to make it come true. Nothing is further from reality, dreams do not cease to be thoughts and only the achievement of acts usually comes to bear fruit.

One of the most famous Spanish actors left us a really interesting message a few months ago that many people overlook: Dreams are not fulfilled, they are pursued.

The famous Antonio Banderas He reflected on the most important lesson he had learned in all those years in Hollywood:

Perhaps having killed many myths, realizing that there are no impossible dreams, that is a message that I always try to convey to young people. If I have achieved it, anyone can achieve it, it is about working and dreaming very hard. Above all, dreaming very hard, having the capacity to sacrifice, committing yourself and working, getting up all the time, there is no total failure. [...]

In this way, Antonio Banderas summarizes his vision of success a bit, something that many yearn for but that when push comes to shove, few achieve.

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What is the formula for success?

There is no formula, nor is there the same version of success. For your father it may be having a 4x4 car, for your neighbor having a finished collection of figurines and for another being an entrepreneur and having his own company. Actually, since there is not the same conception, it is difficult to generalize.

In one of the definitions that the Royal Spanish Academy gives for the concept of ‘success’, it is conceived as the “Happy result of a business, performance”. In short, the RAE itself tells us that we must take action and act. Only in this way can we achieve the objectives.

And we must not confuse success with lucky, there is a very small percentage of society that perhaps one day wakes up and has won the lottery, this possibility being statistically improbable, it is better to focus our efforts on a goal that can be achieved, since if we spend our lives buying "La Primitiva" waiting to see if it plays.

The stark reality: if you want something, go for it

Antonio Banderas also mentions in his appearance on the program that according to 75% of young people want to be civil servants after finishing university. This problem probably comes from afar. Perhaps it is because of the fear that Spaniards have of failure, that they will point their finger at you and tell you that you have failed in life, perhaps the problem is the high level of unemployment, and that is why young people want security and stability.

Anyways, it is bad to know that we have such a half-hearted youth, with little desire to fail to learn, to take risks and make decisions, even if the first time they do not achieve their goal, do not be discouraged, we can always think that Thomas Alva Edison failed 1,000 times before finding the light bulb that lights our homes today, so it is normal that we do not get it right the first time.

The important thing is to know how to change your goals as you progress along the way.. Perhaps what you marked at the beginning no longer interests you or it really is difficult to achieve. Psychology often remembers that the importance of things is not inherent in each event, but depends on the relevance that we want to give it.

It's also important that you plan. Austrian lawyer Peter Drucker once said that “Planning in the long term it is not concerned with future decisions but with the future with current decisions ”, so if we plan well we will save ourselves from wasting many hours on tasks that do not contribute to the final result.

Being clear about your priorities is one of the keys to success

One of the causes that many times we do not get to fulfill what we propose is that we are not clear about our priorities. Unfortunately the day has 24 hours, and we can't make it longer. We must optimize our time to be productive and have time to do the different tasks.

Sometimes you have to know how to say no to things that we would like to do, but that will harm us in the long term in our efforts to achieve our goal. If you are invited to go to a barbecue but you have to submit a work that depends on your passing the subject, maybe it's worth staying home to finish it, there will be other opportunities to have a barbecue in your lifetime.

To conclude, we must also remember that it is totally respectable that people are more comfortable and do not want risk, we do not all have the same ambitions and as we know, in democracy any opinion is respectable.

So if you want to achieve your goals, remember to plan well, prioritize your efforts and above all, work with ambition to achieve your goal.