FROM THE BOARDROOM
Why don't most people write down their dreams and goals? These are words that are easy to say, but hard to achieve. Do you have something you want to accomplish? By now, you know the drill: take out a clean sheet of paper and write it down. Set a timeline and initiate a list of "action steps" to accomplish it. Sound easy?

 

If you've already planted your dreams with us, you're familiar with this concept, and you know it isn't easy at all. This is one of the reasons it's such an uphill climb getting your friends and loved ones to participate in the Dream Round-Up. Why is that?

 

Most people freeze. It's a personal commitment. It's difficult to sign a personal contract and hold yourself accountable. Once you've committed to an outcome, you feel the responsibility to work toward accomplishing your goals. You might fail. You might fall flat on your face. If you never set a goal, you can't fail. People without goals don't have to be responsible to anything or anybody -- even themselves.

 

For some people there's another stumbling block: they don't think they deserve success. They don't think it's right to put their own dreams "out there" when there are so many others depending on them. They're too busy taking care of everybody else.

 

In 1950, several Ivy League colleges took on a study of that year's graduating classes. One of the questions asked of the graduates was whether they had set firm life goals. Eighty-seven percent responded no; 10% said they had set mental goals but had not committed them to writing. Only 3% had put their life goals in writing.

 

The schools monitored the graduates for 25 years, and, in 1975, found that the 87% who held no goals had average levels of achievement. The 10% who kept their goals in their minds instead of on paper outperformed the 87% group. The 3% who had written goals, however, outdistanced them all. They had accumulated more assets than the entire 97%.
THE 3% WITH CLEAR DIRECTION AND A SIGNED PERSONAL CONTRACT HAD OUTPERFORMED THE REST OF THE CLASS COMBINED.
~Bradley Dugddale, Jr.
Bradley Dugdale, Jr.
Dream Round-Up founder

 

Adapted with permission from:
LET'S SAVE AMERICA!
9 Lessons to Financial Success
(c)2000, by Bradley Dugdale, Jr. and Donald M. Ferrell
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You may be
disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.

 

Beverly Sills

 

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

 

Will Rogers

 

DREAM REPORT
Two of the 5 "dreamless states" have joined the fold: Mississippi and Oklahoma! Way to go, dreamers! That leaves only Kentucky, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.

 

Remember, any dreamers who lasso a dreamless state will get credit for 10 referrals. Be sure to let us know who you are!

 

Never
let
your
dreams die!