GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS

Goals and aspirations that we conceive and nurture are a type of dream. A goal is the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve. An aspiration is an ambition, or a cherished desire.

Goals and aspirations are Inner World thoughts and feelings that give shape to what an individual wants and believes she needs in order to create a life that feels purposeful and meaningful. Often such dreams begin in the vague realm of daydreams, as a voice of our wants and yearnings. As daydreams become goals and aspirations, they attain a much more concrete shape. Rather than the fuzziness of a daydream, goals and aspirations are much more specific as to what the hoped-for reality might look like in the waking world, and what might be needed to make the yearnings real. Like a bluerprint or schematic, goals and aspirations guide the dreamer, giving structure to her thoughts and actions in the context of what she wants to achieve in the tangible, waking world