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Connecting dots between

Dream-Desire-Goals

Minal Rohit
Batch of ‘95 EC

Do you know the difference between dream, desire and goals? There are

several sources to gain motivation – “The Secret” – the book, motivation-

al gurus, several stalwarts who have achieved great heights. So, I decided
not to use any of these in my article. All of the above sources talk about all

these elements, but in this article, I will talk about how to connect them.
It is important to have a purpose to differentiate between existing and living.

Animals exist, plants exist, while it is only humans on this globe that have the
ability to live. However, it is on humans to choose whether to exist or to live. If

the choice is the latter then it is important to connect dreams to desire to goals.

Dreams give you the ability to answer WHAT, Desire helps to answer WHY

part of your dream, and goals help you answer the HOW to realise it. Basical-
ly connecting the dots between WHAT-WHY-HOW (aka Dream-Desire-Goal).

Once you have these three above questions sorted to get you your direction

(aka Compass of life), the next important parts are more to traits that guide
you stay on track. I believe persistence, finding a good mentor, persever-

ance (aka ability to stand-up to failures), experience, patience and situation-
al-quotient are the key to keep you on track without deviating while you are

speeding up in this dream to desire to goal journey. Let me remind you that

not everyone blessed to get all of these in the right percentage but it is still
possible to achieve this journey without loosing track, without loosing hope.

So, I take this opportunity to share my own life experiences of how I man-
aged to find my connecting dots.

I believe in dreams, Do you? The very first thing is to dream. This is the begin-
ning stage where you only see the end goal; you do not see how you reached

there. Everything looks real and this is where your subconscious mind regis-
ters that such an event is true. This part establishes faith and trust that such

an event is REAL although when you wake up you realize REALITY of the dif-
ference which should make you want to connect your dots between dream

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