BookNotes-Put Your Dreams to the Test

BookNotes-Put Your Dreams to the Test
By John Maxwell
ISBN-0785214127

How do you measure a dream?
By asking yourself 10 straightforward questions. If you can answer then positively, then the odds of your achieving your dream increase dramatically.So here are the questions:

1. The Ownership Question: Is my dream really my dream?
2. The Clarity Question: Do I clearly see my dream?
3. The Reality Question: Am I depending on factors within my control to achieve my dream? 4. The Passion Question: Does my dream compel me to follow it?
5. The Pathway Question: Do I have a strategy to reach my dream?
6. The People Question: Have I included the people I need to realize my dream?
7. The Cost Question: Am I willing to pay the price for my dream?
8. The Tenacity Question: Am I moving closer to my dream?
9. The Fulfillment Question: Does working toward my dream bring satisfaction?
10. The Significance Question: Does my dream benefit others?

Dream/Strategy Search Exercise
1. Disconnect from regular routines/people
2. Have a pen and paper ready or Evernote
3. Ask each question below and write down your answers.
What I am feeling? – What are my emotions telling me?
What I am sensing? – What is my intuition telling me?
What I am seeing? – What is happening around me?
What I am hearing? – What others are saying?
What I am thinking? – What do my intellect and common sense say?

4. Organize your answers into a readable format or sentence.
5. Create a strategy for each relevant items
6. Take action of each item.

Rule of Five
”If you would go everyday to a very large tree and take five swings at it with a very sharp ax, eventually, no matter how large the tree, it would have to come down” Scholastico
Translation: Do 5 specific things everyday that will move you closer to what you want to achieve.

Move closer to your dreams: Put Your Dreams to the Test, p183
Change your thinking
Change your perspective
Change your work habits