Balancing Act 2 - turning dreams into reality

Doing what makes you happy is refreshing and good for your confidence. Both are key ingredients of living a happy balanced life.

Print off this page, find a quiet 15 minutes and prepare to live more of your dreams...

Think about some of the vague plans or dreams you've had for a while - some of the things you have thought you will do 'one day' - Maybe you've been saying 'one day I'll learn to...' or 'when I'm fitter I will...' or 'when I have enough time I'll...' or 'Id really like to visit...' or 'when the children grow up...' or 'when I have more money...' or even 'when I retire I will...'

List at least 6 of these things -

Sometimes dreams are just dreams – nice to think about but not really something you intend to do, and that’s fine. Go through your list and identify how important each activity is to you on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 is very important and 1 means it’s just a fantasy.

The calendar contains 365 named days and ‘one day’ isn’t one of them, so taking each of your 3 most important dreams in turn, decide what you want to do over the following year to make that dream start to happen by responding to the following questions –

What will completing this dream give you?
What will be the effect of not achieving this dream?
What have you already done towards achieving this dream?
How soon would you like to achieve this dream?
What actions will you need to take to make this dream come true?
What new information do you need to help you?
What is your first step?
When will you take it?
What support might you need? – who can give you that?

Dream 1...

Dream 2...

Dream 3...