I’ve just been reading a great book by New York Times Best Selling author and internationally recognised leadership expert John C. Maxwell called ‘Put Your Dream to the Test’.
If you have a dream, vision or great goal in your heart but seem to be struggling to have it manifest, then in this book John shares the 10 key questions that will help you to become a real difference maker – a person who is capable of not only dreaming the dream, but of becoming the person that achieves the dream.
So no matter what your dream, put it to the test with Maxwell’s 10 key questions that will help you create greater clarity, conviction and purpose on your own pathway to greatness.
- Is my dream really my dream?
- Do I clearly see my dream?
- Am I depending on factors within my control to achieve the dream?
- Does my dream compel me to follow it?
- Do I have a strategy to reach my dream?
- Have I included the people I need to realise the dream?
- Am I willing to pay the price for my dream?
- Am I moving closer to my dream?
- Does working towards my dream bring satisfaction?
- Does my dream benefit others?
Just imagine a world where every person owned his or her dream. Where everyone used their innate skills and talents to pursue their dreams, and where through their own individual success and achievement, they contributed to the betterment of their communities, nations and world.
What difference or legacy could your dream make?
As Maxwell says when he quotes his good friend and fellow author Max Lucado:
“You aren’t an accident. You aren’t an assembly line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.”
Put Your Dream to the Test, John C. Maxwell, 2009, Thomas Nelson Publishers is is available on Amazon or by visiting John Maxwell’s website at www.johnmaxwell.com