This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

We all have the seeds of hopes and dreams, but often the seeds stay dormant in their little paper seed packet with a picture of the hope on the outside.

We take out the seed packet and we look at the picture and we say,

someday I'll have this hope. But it doesn't

happen. That's because we need to take the seeds out of the package and plant them. Seeds don't grow

unless you plant them, and for some reason, they never actually say that on the seed packet.

Hopes and dreams need to be planted in reality. That means turning hopes into do's, real-life

actions with real-life deadlines, and

real-life consequences.

Choose an action.

The next time you take out your seed packet of hope, begin to plant it by brainstorming actions

you can take that will make your hope come true.

You don't have to do those actions yet, but you do have to identify them specifically enough that you could get started if you wanted

to. Someday I'll live in a beautiful house. That's a great hope, especially if you live in an

ugly house with peeling fuchsia-Paisley wallpaper. But it's too dreamy and vague to actually lead to success.

What actions could you take to live in a beautiful house? Do some brainstorming. You could but it's too dreamy and vague to actually lead to success.

What actions could you take to live in a beautiful house? Do some brainstorming.

You could simply drive to a nicer neighborhood, find a house that you like, and wait until you see the people who live there leave for the day, then just move right on in. Eat the tasty food

in the fridge. Try out that amazing temporepetic mattress. Enjoy their 60-inch O-L-ED flat-screen

TV. It'll be great.

Those actions work great, but when the people

come back, they tend to be just a

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