1. Believe in youself
Believing in one's self is having faith In your abilities and capabilities. When you believe in yourself, people verdict about you natters less to you. You become your own motivation, which becomes a driving force to push you to your greatness. In addition to believing in yourself, always try to be yourself. Don't live under the shadow of someone else's dreams, as this can make your dream less important and achievable.
Every successful and great people first believed in themselves before others can believe in them. So this quality is one you should learn if you don't have, it will surely help you get to your destination on time and easily.
2. Turn Challenges to Opportunities
Challenges also known as problems are what humans face every single day. It is what life itself is made up of. Problems are inevitable, so if you really plan to achieve success in life, you'll have to learn how to deal with challenges, because you will come across it at all times. Turning challenges to Opportunities is a virtue that one has to learn in order to achieve success.
When one have such virtue, then every obstacle becomes a stepping stone instead of a barrier. At a point in life, I asked myself " is there still any problem left in this world to fix?". I was surprised to discover the world is still filled with tons of challenges left to be solved. And one thing I realised is that, the more problems are solved, the more problems are created. So you see, human can't really do without problem, which makes it easier if we can utilize this problem to our benefit. Just think of a problem and provide solutions to it, and get on the track to success and achieving your dreams.
3. Learn from others mistakes not success stories
Everyone trying to achieve success will surely have a story to tell, either good or bad. Failure is a stepping stone to success. So you should always expect that on your way to greatness in life. To make it in life fast and easily, always try your best to learn from the mistakes/failure of others, as this will save you time in achieving your own dream. Connect with great people that share similar dream with you, ask them what it was like before they could become what they are today, let them share their stories as you learn from it. This way, you can avoid the pit they fell into on your own journey to success. Always ask questions when you are not sure, ask from expert already in your field. Have a good network of people, as this will become useful for you while on your journey to success.
4. Be ready to take risks
Dreams don't come to reality easily, one has to take risk to make it a reality. Every thing you see as a reality today, was once believed by some to be unachievable. It took the focus and determination of the dreamer to recreate what he dreamt of. Before you achieve what you want in life, you should expect a lot of criticism, dragging etc. but you don't allow that get in your way, your determination to risk it all will be your driving force, motivating you all the way to greatness.
5. Remain Focused
Some people find it hard to keep their focus on one thing. They get easily distracted thereby making all their attempt and effort to achieve goals futile. Being focused is one thing you have to learn if you must be a dream chaser. Just like i said earlier, so many challenges, difficulties, critics, etc are bound to happen on your way to success, but if you let all that get to you, i'm sorry you may loose target of your goal. Another is jumping from one goal to another, you should set your goal in a way that, you have to achieve one before you can jump to another. this challenge you to want to achieve more in a small space of time than jumping from one goal down to another and not achieving any of them.
Achieving one's dream is something everyone has to decide on their own. No one can tell you the best way to go in achieving your dreams. You can only be guided so has to not make unnecessary mistake that can be avoided. So today you decide if you still want to pursue you dream or not. You decide if you want peoples verdict about you define who you are or you make people understand what you stand for. It all start with you. Let me know some of those dreams you have given up on in the comment section below.