Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions to Help You See It and Seize It - Softcover

Maxwell, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400200407 ISBN 13: 9781400200405

Verlag: Thomas Nelson, 2012

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Do you dream big? Now you can put your dream to the test and bring it to life!

What's the difference between a dreamer and someone who achieves a dream? According to best-selling author and leadership expert Dr. John C. Maxwell, the answer lies in answering ten powerful, straightforward questions.

Whether you've lost sight of an old dream or you are searching for a new one within you,?this book provides a step-by-step action plan that you can start using today to see, own, and reach your dream. Dr. Maxwell draws on his forty years of mentoring experience to expertly guide you through the ten questions required of every successful dreamer.

In Put Your Dream to the Test, Maxwell will help you:

• Discover and define what your dream should be
• Create a blueprint for a path to achieve success
• See real-world examples of what success could look like for you

It's one thing to have a dream. It's another to do the things needed to achieve it. If you're willing to put your dream to the test and do what's needed to answer yes to the ten dream questions, then your odds are very good for seeing your dream become reality.

Don't leave your dream to chance. This book is a must-have and can make the difference between failure and success.

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John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to  train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.

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PUT YOUR DREAM TO THE TEST

10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize ItBy JOHN C. MAXWELL

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2011 John C. Maxwell
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ISBN: 978-1-4002-0040-5

Contents

Acknowledgments......................................................................................................ixIntroduction: What Is Your Dream?....................................................................................xiThe Dream Test.......................................................................................................xxiiiCHAPTER 1 The Ownership Question Is My Dream Really My Dream?.......................................................1CHAPTER 2 The Clarity Question Do I Clearly See My Dream?...........................................................23CHAPTER 3 The Reality Question Am I Depending on Factors within My Control to Achieve My Dream?.....................45CHAPTER 4 The Passion Question Does My Dream Compel Me to Follow It?................................................71CHAPTER 5 The Pathway Question Do I Have a Strategy to Reach My Dream?..............................................93CHAPTER 6 The People Question Have I Included the People I Need to Realize My Dream?................................115CHAPTER 7 The Cost Question Am I Willing to Pay the Price for My Dream?.............................................137CHAPTER 8 The Tenacity Question Am I Moving Closer to My Dream?.....................................................161CHAPTER 9 The Fulfillment Question Does Working toward My Dream Bring Satisfaction?.................................185CHAPTER 10 The Significance Question Does My Dream Benefit Others?..................................................205Conclusion: Looking Back ... Looking Forward.........................................................................223Notes................................................................................................................227My Dream Map.........................................................................................................235

Chapter One

The Ownership Question Is My Dream Really My Dream?

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that it is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that it is what you feel. —T. S. Eliot

His father wanted him to become a policeman. After all, his father was the chief of police in the small town where he grew up. His mother had other ideas. She believed he should become a carpenter. She saw that he didn't have much interest or aptitude for academic subjects in school, and she wanted him to learn a practical trade. At her request, Arnold dutifully enrolled in a carpentry apprenticeship program while in high school, but his heart was never really in it.

WHOSE DREAM IS IT?

Many young people find themselves in this kind of situation when they are growing up. They don't know what they're good at. They don't know what they want to do. So they listen to their parents or friends and start in a direction for their lives that reflects someone else's desires and dreams, not their own. And that shouldn't be a surprise. Children first see themselves through the eyes of their parents and other role models. They have no other point of reference. Counseling expert Cecil G. Osborne, in The Art of Understanding Yourself, observes, "The young child has no clear picture of himself. He sees himself only in the mirror of his parents' evaluation of himself. ... A child who is told repeatedly that he is a bad boy, or is lazy, or no good, or stupid, or shy, or clumsy, will tend to act out this picture which the parent or some other authority figure has given him." Many young people lose touch with their emerging identity—who they are and what they would really like to do—and they adopt the dreams and desires of someone else's heart because they wish to gain approval or because they don't know what else to do.

How many people attend law school because that is what their parents want? How many get married to please their mother? How many get a "real job" instead of pursuing a career in movies or the theater? Anytime you see people pursuing a midlife career change, you can almost be certain they had been living someone else's dream and lost their way. As disruptive as such a transition can be, they are more fortunate than the people who never discover and pursue their own dreams.

Even encouraging, positive, well-meaning parents can steer their children in a wrong direction. I know because I experienced it in a small way when I was seven years old. My parents were convinced that I possessed musical talent. They bought a piano and signed me up for lessons. For a couple of years, I enjoyed learning and practicing. I didn't have a passion for it, but I kept playing because it brought joy to my mom and dad.

My parents decided to broaden my musical horizons when I reached the fifth grade, and they bought me a trumpet. My teacher informed them that my mouth was not shaped correctly for that instrument, so they switched me to the clarinet. A famous clarinet player named Ted Lewis had come from my hometown, Circleville, Ohio, so friends started saying, "Maybe you can become the next Ted Lewis!"

Not likely. I didn't even have enough talent to make first chair in my elementary school band. I was the last clarinet!

At that age I really wanted to play basketball. I can still remember the pressure and heaviness of heart I felt when I finally sat down with my parents to tell them that I wanted to give up music to play sports. I can also remember the exhilaration I felt as they let go of their dream for me to become a great musician. It was with great joy that I packed away my clarinet for good and picked up a basketball.

ARNOLD'S DREAM

Arnold wasn't sure of what he wanted to do, but he knew it wasn't law enforcement or carpentry. It wasn't for lack of trying to find his dream. He had ambition. In fact, one thing he did know was that he wanted to be the best in the world at whatever he chose. He loved athletics, but in his midteens, he still hadn't found the right sport. He had tried many: ice curling, boxing, running, and field events such as javelin and shot put. For five years, he played soccer but had no strong passion for it. Then one day his soccer coach asked members of the team to start lifting weights once a week to improve their conditioning. It was then that his dream began to take shape.

"I still remember that first visit to the bodybuilding gym," he recalls. "I had never seen anyone lifting weights before. Those guys were ... powerful looking, Herculean. And there it was before me—my life, the answer I'd been seeking. It clicked. It was something I suddenly just seemed to reach out and find, as if I'd been crossing a suspended bridge and finally stepped off onto solid ground."

At age fourteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger had found his passion in a gymnasium. His dream came just a few months later when he spotted a magazine in a store window. On its cover was the image of a bodybuilder playing the role of Hercules in a movie. Arnold remembers what happened next:

I scraped up the pfennigs [Austrian pennies] that I had left and bought that magazine. It turned out that Hercules was an English guy [named Reg Park] who'd won the Mr. Universe title in bodybuilding and parlayed that into a movie career—then took the money and built a gym empire....

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thomas Nelson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1400200407
• ISBN 13: 9781400200405
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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