Is it better to wish upon a star or go for the goal

It's awesome to make wishes - big or small. I wish someone would give me a million dollars. I wish my family would all be healthy. I wish I could have enough clients to keep me as busy as I'd like to be. I wish I could afford to take long family vacations every year. I wish I could pay for all my parents' medical prescriptions for them. But making wishes is nothing if you don't set goals to achieve them!

~Renae

Beth, I think we are all guilty of just wishing on a star at times even though we know it's not likely to happen. 

This is so bizarre and maybe you can explain it to me - when I opened your post, it was written entirely in symbols. I copied and pasted into a word document and changed the font and it made sense. How strange is that?

I like the quote that it's just a wish unless you make a plan to make it happen. If it were easy, we'd all be rich, skinny, famous, whatever :)

Beth and Richard, I'm converting wishes into goals.  I agree with you that's the best way to motivate action.  Thank you for sharing your inspiration.

Okay I got it too.  My wish may be coming true as we spent tonight exchanging due dilegence materials for our LUXURY LISTING and expect it to be under contract tomorrow.

Good morning Beth. The video is wonderful, just perfect for me to see this morning, but have no clue what language your post is in.

Nothing like a Written Goal to make those dreams become real.

Great post Beth!

Beth, I wish I'd win the lottery, but my goal setting is a bit on the weak side since I don't actually buy any tickets :)

Richard & Beth, I write my goals down, and have my wishes planted firmly in my brain!

Beth, a goal is attainable and you should expect to get there. I enjoyed reading your take on the subject. 

It looks like your text is in Greek. Maybe we should be using Google translate.

This is the translation:

Is it better to wish upon a star or go for the goal ?

Before answering that question lets take a look at how a goal differs from a wish? First of all, let's look at how they are similar. Each one is a good thing to have, and each concerns something we'd like to see happen in the future.

A wish is something we long for, like children wishing on a star or a birthday wish when we blow out the candles on a cake. But it is not likely to be something we think about very much. And, if it should happen to come true, we may think of it as a miracle, something we might need a fairy godmother to grant.

Goals, however, are much different. Goals cause us to focus our energies, something like a goal in hockey or football. They're very specific, achievable and measurable. A clearly stated goal helps us to tune into our environment. We become very sensitive to things we may not have noticed before that can help us do what we want to do.

But here's the most important part: goals are much more likely to happen than wishes, because they are so specific and because we think about them so much. We write them down, develop action strategies to help us make them happen, and we take them very seriously.

Do you have any wishes that you'd really like to see come true? If so, why not turn them into goals and take accountability for accomplishing them? You'll be surprised at how your life will change once you do. 

"If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish." Steve Maraboli

So tell me... is it better to wish upon a star or have a goal??? I vote for having a goal!!!