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Dream with a [DEADLINE PT 2]

April 06, 20261 min read

Dream with a [DEADLINE PT 2]

Last post I explained the acronym for

D-R-E-A-M=>Dedication – Responsibility – Education – Attitude – Motivation!!

Remember that goals are dreams with a deadline. Here’s how you help your child convert their dreams into goals and make them come true.

Dedication: Help them to understand that there is no such thing as failure unless they give up. They must be committed and persist in their goal. Let it turn into a healthy obsession.

Responsibility: They and they alone are responsible. You can help them by teaching them this affirmation…

“If it’s to be, it’s up to me!”

Attitude: There are only 2–Positive & Negative. Help them understand that little can be accomplished with a negative attitude, but much can be accomplished with a positive one and best of all, when we’re positive; we can do EVERYTHING better!

Education: Kids love to learn and…

Learners are Earners!

Goal setters always want more and in order to get more, they’ll have to become more! Education is key. Now it’s crucial to understand the following.

Human beings learn through 4 modalities,

  1. Visual (seeing)

  2. Audio (hearing)

  3. Kinesthetic (feeling/touch)

  4. Olfactory (smell).

Visual and audio are taken care of in a conventional learning environment, but a kinesthetic child is different…they learn doing, feeling touching and tinkering. So know who your child is and go!

Motivation: Motion causes emotion. When you help your child take the above steps and keep them taking action, they’ll be excited and motivated to keep moving toward their dreams, especially when Mom & Dad have their back <3

So once again, when it comes to goal setting…

  1. Have goals!

  2. Keep them realistically aggressive!

  3. Write them down!

  4. Set a completion date!

One more thing…

GoForIt…All the Time…Everyday…Always!!


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