“Your future is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.” You’ve probably heard this saying before, but are you doing anything with it?

Success, and your future, really IS a matter of choice.

You can roll that dice of chance if you like. But truly successful people remove the notion of chance from their vocabulary. They know they need to create their future by choice, not wait for some pie-in-the-sky chance to come along.

Many frustrated people say things like – When I have a million dollars then I’ll be successful.

Well, that is leaving everything to the – let’s face it – miniscule chance that you might have a million dollars land in your lap!

Your future, and your present, are a matter of choice, right now.

You must make the opportunities that you have probably been sitting around waiting for.

You must go after what it is that you want.

You must not let anything stop you from reaching your defined destination.

Action – Make one choice, right now, this second, that will have a positive impact on your tomorrow.

Call that person you are a little scared of. Pick up that out of date business plan. Enroll in that University course you’ve been dying to take. Set up the plan your financial advisor gave you. For that matter, go out and hire the financial planner!

Stop waiting, make the choice and take the action in the next 30 minutes.

Don’t worry about anything else.

Just start right now – from where you are with what you have.

I used to get into trouble at school when I stared out the window. The teacher would shout “Nancy, stop daydreaming and get back to work.” Sound familiar?

What’s really cool though is that you can turn your daydreaming into success.

Understand something – Successful people are dreamers. Yes indeed, success isn’t all about formulas and tangents.

Read the biography of most successful people and you will see that they have all spent time dreaming. Some even schedule time to stare out the window! I’m not kidding!

A dream is your vision of the future. A dream expresses long-held desires or ambitions. Within it are elements that will help you feel – and be – successful.

But often we are told not to dream about the future. It will only distract us from our “reality”.

Or we even say to ourselves “well, that’s just a dream – it will never happen.”

You are absolutely right. It will never happen unless you do something with it.

Action – And the first thing to do is take your dream from your head and put it on paper. Use cutouts from magazines, draw pictures or take actual photos of what it is that you want and paste them to some cardboard. Add words or other images or any materials that will help you fully see the dream in 3D.

This is known as a vision board. They are extremely powerful for activating your subconscious to move towards taking the actions you need to create the actual vision, the dream.

Hang your vision board up in a prominent place that you’ll see at least 4 times every day. Soon, you will start to notice yourself taking concrete steps that turn that dream into reality.