How to achieve your dreams in life and be successful.

Several keys help us to be happy and develop as human beings.

There are many people who think that dreaming about something is enough to make it come true. Nothing could be further from the truth, dreams are just thoughts and only the achievement of actions usually bears fruit.

A few months ago, one of the most famous Spanish actors left us a really interesting message that many people overlook: Dreams are not fulfilled, they are pursued.

The famous Antonio Banderas reflected on the most important lesson he had learned in all those years in Hollywood:

Perhaps having killed many myths, realizing that there are no impossible dreams, that's a message I always try to convey to young people. If I have achieved it, anyone can achieve it, it's all about working and dreaming hard. Above all, to dream very hard, to have the capacity for sacrifice, to work hard, to always get up, there is no such thing as total failure. [...]

This is how Antonio Banderas sums up his vision of success, something that many people yearn for but that, when it comes down to it, few achieve.

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What is the formula for success?

There is no formula, nor is there a single version of success.. For your father it may be to have a 4x4 car, for your neighbor to have a finished collection of figurines and for another to be an entrepreneur and have his own company. In fact, since there is not the same conception, it is difficult to generalize.

In one of the definitions that the Royal Spanish Academy gives for the concept of 'success', it is conceived as the "Happy result of a business, performance". In short, the same RAE tells us that we must take action and act. Only in this way can we achieve our objectives.

And we must not confuse success with luck, there is a very small percentage of society that maybe one day wakes up and has won the lottery, being that possibility statistically improbable, it is better to focus our efforts on a goal that can be achieved.We spend our lives buying 'La Primitiva' waiting to see if we win.

The harsh reality: if you want something, go for it.

Antonio Banderas also mentioned in his appearance on the program that according to 75% of young people want to be civil servants when they finish university. This problem probably goes back a long way.. Perhaps it is due to the fear that Spaniards have of failure, of being pointed at and told that you have failed in life, or perhaps the problem is the high level of unemployment, and that is why young people want security and stability.

In either caseIt is bad to know that we have such an unenthusiastic youth, with little desire to fail in order to learn, to take risks and make decisions.We can always think that Thomas Alva Edison failed 1,000 times before finding the light bulb that today illuminates our homes, so it is normal that we do not get it right the first time.

The important thing is to know how to change your goals as you progress along the way.. Perhaps what you set at the beginning is no longer of interest to you or it is really difficult to achieve. Psychology often reminds us that the importance of things is not inherent to each event, but depends on the relevance we want to give it.

It is also important that you plan. The Austrian lawyer Peter Drucker once said that "Long-term planning is not concerned with future decisions but with the future with current decisions", so if we plan well we will save us from wasting many hours in tasks that do not contribute to the final result..

Being clear about your priorities is one of the keys to success.

One of the reasons why we often fail to achieve what we set out to do is that we are not clear about our priorities. Unfortunately, the day has 24 hours, and we can't extend it any longer.. We must optimize our time to be productive and have time to do the different tasks.

Sometimes we must know how to say no to things that we would like to do, but that will harm us in the long run in our efforts to achieve our goal. If you are invited to go to a barbecue but you have to hand in a paper that depends on you passing the subject, maybe it is worth staying home to finish it, there will be other opportunities to have a barbecue in your life.

To conclude, we must also remember that it is totally respectable that people are more comfortable and do not want to take risks, not all of us have the same ambitions and as we know, in democracy any opinion is respectable.

So if you want to achieve your goals, remember to plan well, prioritize your efforts and above all, work with ambition to achieve your goal.