Baking cakes with baby steps.

So what do you do when your childhood dreams start to fade?

You dig them up, wipe them off, take a look at them and ask yourself if you still want it.

Then you take a hard look at yourself, and ask yourself what you are doing on a daily basis to get closer to your dreams. Now don't worry if you find yourself not getting closer to your dreams on a daily basis.

The good thing about dreams is, that they don't have to be realistic. That in contradiction to goals, you'd better make sure they are realistic, otherwise you are wasting your time, fooling yourself. Don't worry if you don't know what you want out of life, you are among the many.

But if you want to know you can ask yourself the following question:

What would I do, if money was no object but I had only 5 more years to life?

I think that will bring you a bit closer to your inner self. Now write it down. What? Write down your goals. You might think that you can remember it all and that's fine, but have you ever found yourself in a situation, where you just have been introduced to someone on a party, and the next moment you want to ask that person to pass you the cucumber salad and you don't know their name? Please, don't trust your memory.

''Most people spend more time on planning their holiday, instead of their life''

So you have to understand what we are going to do here. We are going to bake a cake, the cake of life. First of all, you take all the ingredients, or as I like to call it: ''Your past''. The good news is that the ingredients are not the most important part of the cake. The bad news is that these are the ingredients you have to deal with, for now.. The most important part is what you do with the ingredients. Your present. What you have done so far, is done. You can't change it. Your past has shaped your character, and have you made become the person you are today. The key is in what you do, with what you have today, to get where you want to go.

So for the few ambitious people who read this, and since many people like the first steps of a baby, this is what you can do: Take a baby step toward your personal goal... Today! It is estimated that 67% of the wealthy put their goals in writing, while less than 1% of the poor create such lists? Yeah right, but what do I do when I completed my ''Baby step''? You celebrate and move on to the next step.

Did you know that the mind goes to sleep just like a computer does, if it hasn't been given a clear specific task?

One thing that helps me a lot, is to be reminded to my goals everyday.

So I put my goal(s) in a place where I cannot help myself but see it. Take the fridge and the mirror. Some of you will become superachievers since they spend a lot of time in front of the mirror.

Some of you will do this, some of you don't.

Your life is yours, not mine. My life is mine, not yours.

If you understand this, then please treat it that way.

Have a wonderful week.