Transforming your dreams into tangible reality demands concentrating your focus exclusively on just one of them.

First, set aside a few of your dreams for a later time.

“All my life, I’ve had one dream; to achieve my many goals.” Homer Simpson

While that’s a funny definition from the TV character, it shouldn’t be a piece of advice you follow.

If you plan every dream wisely, there’s always a chance of you achieving them all. You just have to be strategic when making your plans.

Everybody wants to be successful, rich, healthy, and happy — right now.

But to manage all of these things at once, you need to divide your time, energy, and attention in multiple directions. However, this multitasking can become the reason why you quit following your goals.

You can’t put your 100% focus on any of your dreams when you’re focused on multiple things. Constant distraction and lack of focus can lead you to give up on everything. Thus, make a better choice.

Choose only one dream and put into it all your energy, time, and focus.

Although, there’s still an option to work on more dreams at once, as long as they relate to each other.

If you want to become a blogger and write a book, you can work on it at once. Writing a book can give you ideas for your blog posts, and writing blog posts can help you become a better writer.

You can apply this system to any other goal. As long as you can combine working on two dreams at once, do it.

For instance, combine your goals of doing a new sport and starting a diet. You can work on these goals easily at one time. The same as you can combine your dreams of starting a new business and launching your blog guiding newbies to start a new business.

Nonetheless, the rest of the unrelated dreams need to wait for later.

Think of all your dreams, then choose the right

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

Pick up one dream you want to achieve anytime soon. To make the process of picking easier and more realistic, don’t pay too much attention to your emotions.

Use rational thinking and find a dream possible to achieve with what you have and where you are right now.

Make a list of everything you need to make each of your goals real. This list helps you to choose a dream that’s easiest to manage now.

Think in terms of the money, time, and urgency of your goal.

Is there something you need to sacrifice to get closer to your goal?

Which one of your dreams is the most possible to manage with the number of resources you have now?

What are you willing to lose instantly to get what you want?

Don’t think too big. You can’t get everything at once.

Therefore, it’s important to realize what’s your number one priority. Choose a dream that is the most accessible now.

Don’t feel like you’re going to lose the rest of your dreams — you just keep them for later.

Focus on your goal

“Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — George Herbert

Once you defined your dream, the hard part is coming. The time when you need to actually start working on it to make things happen.

The most essential thing at the beginning of your journey is to create a habit of working on your dream regularly. The most preferred option — every day.

Working on your dream needs to become part of your identity

The biggest reason for picking only one goal at a time is the importance of creating new habits. This comes along with changing your old behavior.

Your conscious mind creates content that’s being saved within your subconscious mind. Your subconsciousness works like a storage of your habits and everything you’re experiencing in your life.

Once working towards your goal becomes a part of your identity, all the actions you have to take will become automatic, the same as brushing your teeth in the morning.

How to get your dream into your subconsciousness

The more often you repeat some activity, the more it becomes part of your subconscious mind.

If you exercise for one hour once a week, your chances of creating a habit significantly decrease. However, if you exercise 10 minutes every day, you create a strong habit within a few weeks.

So once you start, spend as much time as possible on creating new habits.

All the activities bringing you closer to your goal must slowly become a part of your life. Make a list of everything that needs to be done. The list will keep changing during your journey, so note all the observations and ideas that might be helpful later.

If you want to start a blog, keep writing every day for a few minutes. Later you’ll be writing more, but in the beginning, 30 minutes daily is enough.

You don’t want to make it difficult for yourself already in the beginning.

This way, you create a strong habit that will later require zero effort. Simply said, if you repeat something often, it becomes easier to be repeated.

Achieving your dream is a process, not a goal

You always have to think of your dream as a process. This attitude helps you see everything that needs to be done so you can create a step-by-step plan.

When you know which steps you have to take, achieving your dream doesn’t seem scary and difficult.

Constantly track your progress

If you can’t see how you grow, you can easily lose your motivation.

That’s why you need to keep track of everything you’ve done, whether it went well or wrong. It gives you insights on what you have to avoid vs. what you want to repeat as it previously led you to success.

Celebrate every small win and learn from every mistake.

When doubts pop up in your head, take a look back at what you’ve already achieved. Your accomplishments give you the energy to continue.

Everything will seem impossible — until you start

Before you start, you have no idea what to expect and what to do. And if you never start, you’ll never figure it out.

So don’t let this feeling stop you, because once you start, everything will change. You’ll learn things as you go and start seeing solutions, not only problems.

Keep in your mind one thing, though:

You’ll get feelings of helplessness often, not only when you’ll be starting. Don’t let it discourage you.

Never compare your dream in process with the completed dreams of others

Comparing yourself to others leads to disappointment.

When you look at your work, you see the mistakes you did, the effort that went nowhere, and the struggles that constantly accompanied you.

When you look at someone else’s work, you see a perfection you may never achieve.

Focus on yourself, not others.

Compare your work from the last month with the work you did just recently. See how much you’re improving every day.

That’s the only objective measurement of your success at this point.

It won’t be so easy, though

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” — Michael Phelps

To get the things that matter to you, you need to sacrifice a lot.

You need to spend your time wisely, create new habits, overcome procrastination and laziness, and cut some of your hobbies to get more time.

You have to make a serious commitment and stick to it.

If you get to a place where you feel stuck, don’t stay there for long. Try more strategies and keep moving.

And don’t forget to always look back on the progress you’ve already made.

Conclusion

When you know what it takes, start working on your dream. Don’t postpone things you can do right now.

After all, when people reflect on their lives, they often regret things they didn’t do, not the ones they did.