{"id":21600,"date":"2020-12-25T20:34:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=21600"},"modified":"2021-01-03T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:17:50","slug":"how-to-achieve-your-dreams-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-achieve-your-dreams-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Achieve Your Dreams in Life: Work Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you want to know how to achieve<\/a> your dreams in life? Is there a way to start living your dreams right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek<\/a><\/em>, he explaining how you can work less and do more to achieve your goals<\/a>. With this advice, you can learn how to achieve your dreams<\/a> in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about The 4-Hour Workweek<\/em> and how to achieve your dreams<\/a> in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How to Achieve Your Dreams in Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Learning how to achieve your dreams in life doesn’t have to be difficult. First, you need to be able to define those dreams and know what you want. Then, you can map out those dreams and how you plan to achieve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Perils of Not Knowing What You Want<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If we don\u2019t know what we want, we can fall into two traps: adhering to conventions, or trying to buy certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first trap is adhering to conventions. If we haven\u2019t come up with an alternative to a conventional lifestyle, it\u2019s hard to avoid it. <\/strong>As children, we\u2019re allowed to dream, but as we grow up, people tell us to be practical and realistic. We\u2019re told we should make choices that will allow us to live the conventional lifestyle of holding down a good job, starting a family, and buying a sports car. But you don\u2019t want to be the kind of person who settles for boredom and the status quo. Becoming this kind of person should be scarier than anything else you might do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second trap catches us when we don\u2019t know what we want. Until we figure it out, we decide to work until we have enough money to do anything and everything. If you haven\u2019t decided on a use for your money, you\u2019ll keep trying to get more so that when you do figure out what you want, you\u2019ll have enough.<\/strong> You\u2019re trying to use money to buy certainty. For example, the author\u2019s company, BrainQUICKEN LLC, reached a point where it could run itself without any input for him. However, because he hadn\u2019t come up with anything to do with his time, he kept working even though he didn\u2019t need to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDreamlining\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDreamlining\u201d is a method for attaching timelines to dreams and is an important part of learning how to achieve your dreams in life. It\u2019s similar to goal-setting but differs in these ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n