Do you know you can create your own future?

Sounds like an impossible dream to you, doesn’t it?

Nothing in life is impossible if you work towards making it possible. I am sure most of you still do not agree with me.

You have great dreams about your life, don’t you?

• You want your future to be bright and prosperous.
• You want wealth and fame.
• You want to be hale and healthy.
• You want your family life to be loving and caring.
• You want your children to succeed in their life.

Mostly these are your dreams about your future.

But, you cannot call them your dreams. They are your normal expectations about your life. Almost everyone has it.

These wishes do not ignite a fire in you, does it?

You just hope against hope that these expectations will be fulfilled. This is not the way to create your own future.

You must think out of your comfort zone to chisel your life. Otherwise, you will never achieve anything worthwhile in your life. But sadly, most of you shirk from coming out of your safety zone.

This is a wrong way to live your life.

Do not waste your life by living it routinely and aimlessly.

Build your life the way you dream of.

Creating your own future is very easy and very possible. The only thing you should do is to have a clear cut vision of what you want to be in your life.

Having hazy visions about your success will never come true. Success is made the hard way, not the easy way.

Here are the wonder ways to create your own future

1. Have a targeted dream about your life.

Unless you have a fixed aim in your life, you will not work towards achieving it.

You want to be rich. You want success. You want fame. And you think these are your aim in life.

No!

It is not so.

These are all hazy dreams almost everyone has. It will never materialize, as your dream does not have a target through which you can attain your desires.

Yours is only a wishful thinking.

Unless you have a target, you cannot hit the bull’s eye. Most of you want to be famous in some way or the other. This is not the way to create your own future.

You must be specific about your dream.

“I want to be a player” – Your aim is a little too much out of focus as it is generic.

“I want to be a tennis player” – Excellent.

Your focus is now targeted. You will definitely make it, provided you work hard towards it.

2. Be practical and realistic

Do you wish to be a Bill Gates?

It is a pipe dream. You will never achieve it.

Do not keep building castles in the air, as it is useless. Your dreams must be practical and achievable. You must know your limitations. You must also know your strength.

It is no use when you have big dreams and do only small work.

Always remember that when you think big, you should also work big.

3. Visualize your success vividly

You should live your success. You should experience the happiness of your success even before you achieve it.

Your dream should be so vivid that you can literally visualize your elevated social status when you eventually reach your peak.

Let us suppose you plan to build your own house when you achieve your success.

Imagine that you had already built your dream house. The color of the house, the garden, the interior decoration must be well etched in your mind.

You must mentally decide the car you are going to buy. You should literally feel the pride of riding in your own car, even before buying it.

Your garden should spread out before your eyes. The plants, the lawn, the garden accessories should come as a vivid picture right before your eyes.

Gear up your imagination to your future life of great wealth and affluence even before achieving it. When you keep visualizing how success would change your lifestyle, surprisingly it becomes a reality.

4. Be ready to work very hard

When you shirk away from hard work, your dreams of creating your destiny will always remain a dream.

Only hard work will lead you to success. There is no other easy way out.

Laziness has no place in shaping your future.

You must be ready to put in tons of hard work and toil into making your dreams a reality.

Never think successful people created their future just like that. Behind their opulent façade lies their sweat and toil.

5. Time is ticking

It is no use if you work hard if you do not work smartly.

You should have a well etched plan for each day. Write down the list of the work to be done by you for a day. This is an effective way to make use of all the time you have in your hand.

Never waste your time. It is so precious.

Each ticking seconds tells you that time is rushing past you. Race with the time available to you.

6. Set a time target

Work extends with time, doesn’t it?

When you do not set yourself a time limit, your plan for your future will prolong for an eternity. You will meander about doing your work at your own pace.

You feel you have all the time in the world and keep procrastinating your work.

This is the reason you should set a time limit to achieve your goal. Work hard to meet out your time limit. This way is very effective in making you more proactive and productive.

7. Update your knowledge

Do you know if you want to create your own future, you should have knowledge about your work?

Do not feel smug that you know everything. Keep updating your knowledge about your field.

Keep learning new things. Put what you have learned into practice. Be prepared to ask the help of an expert. Networking is an excellent tool to create your own future.

8. Learn lessons from your past

Your past gives you many precious lessons. These precious lessons help you to rectify the mistakes which made your past life miserable.

Forget the pain your past gave you, but never forget the treasure like lessons it taught you. The lessons you learned through your mistakes makes great contribution towards your success.

Taking cue from your past mistakes makes you more efficient and competent.

9. Live your present

The way you live your present life is an indicator to what is in store for you in the future. If you shrink in dejection about your unhappy past, your present life cannot be handled by you.

Your present is the reality of your life. It should be lived with dedicated hard work for your professional success.

Your present life is like virtual money in hand. So, it is all the more powerful and potent.

10. Now it is time to create your own future

All these characteristics combine to etch out your future. Now it is time to create your own future.

Understand that your entire life is linked to the three phases of your life.

What exactly are the three phases in your life?

Your past- It is a precious lesson.

Your present- It is a pointer to your future life.

Your future- The rich fruit you are going to harvest from the lessons you learned from your past mistakes and from the way, you live you present.

Never reconcile yourself to the defeats and failures you face in your present life. Keep trying again and again until you succeed. Persistence, patience, and hard work always pays.

‘Life is divided into three terms- that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.’- William Wordsworth.

Do you live your present life without any aim and goal?

If you do so, your future life is destined to be a sure failure.

Your present life is not isolated from your past. Your future cannot be separated from your present.

Can you now see how your life is linked to these three phases of your life?

The only thing you cannot predict is the day of your death and way you are going to die. It is in control of God Almighty. But other aspects of your life can easily be predicted by you.

Do not look too far ahead into your future as you lose insight of your present life.

CONCLUSION

Nothing in your life is certain. Anything can happen to you at any time. In fact, this is the formula of life.

It is this uncertainty that makes your mind active. If you know what is going to happen in your future, life will be very boring.

So, what you do in your present decides your future. Your present is the life you live now. It is the real actuality.

Your present is your key to create your own future. So, live your present life in the right way. When you do so, your life is automatically diverted to the inevitable- your dream future!