See a Dream Become Possible

Why don’t more of us look to achieve bold, aggressive goals? We feel afraid because it seems too big or too impossible; we believe we don’t have the skills, connections, or time to do what is needed; we may believe we don’t have the leadership or endurance to do what it takes to get there.

At training at my new job, I learn a new definition of leader and commitment that inspire me in such an energizing way. A leader is he/she who commits to something he/she does not know how to attain. And being committed is about doing what you say you would do, long after the mood have left us.

Let me take you through a bit more on these 2 provoking concepts.

We usually set goals that we know we can achieve. We look at our past to see if we have done it before or if we have done something close enough. We need the security and confidence that we will achieve it. We are not really afraid of change, but we avoid uncertainty at all cost. With this new definition of Leader, I become so much more empowered to shoot high and trust that little by little I will get there. We will need to build bridges that enhance our confidence. By bridges, I mean facts that help you believe that you can attain that goal. For example, I want to be a professional coach; I have no experience, but the feedback I have gotten from friends reveal I have skills. That’s a bridge.

Now to be able to get to that new possibility or dream that we have for ourselves, we need to be committed. It cannot be that today we are excited about it (that’s the mood), and when things start not going too well, we give up. That’s when we have to be more creative and push forward. Being committed is much more that believing; it is about having endurance and confidence that we will get there, while making peace with uncertainty and not knowing exactly how. If you commit to your possibility, you will see how your perception of the world changes and, hence the conversations we have internal and externally.