The easiest thing in the world is day dreaming / desire. We feel all comfort & relax while day dreaming. We don’t have to pay a single penny to feel this feeling. Sometimes, we desire products / services & wish to get those one day in our life.

For eg. Imagine you are walking on the road & in that sort you see a luxury sedan worth ₹ 1 crore passing you. Being middle class you start thinking / desire to own that car one day in your life. In life span, you even get that car easily. Now you would be surprised at my last line about how a middle class person could afford something worth ₹1 crore. I have the answer at last.

All along, I strongly say that don’t desire this worth ₹1 crore car or anything which you see in the market or in society. Instead desire about something which is not launched yet or even the idea is not formed. It seems a bit confusing but I am having the secret later in this blog.

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Now I’ve separated the further explanation in two parts –

1. How do we easily get today’s luxury in our life

Speaking of India, in the early 90’s, there was a car, the Maruti 800, dominating in a segment of the car market. Back then, its launching price was ₹48,500-50,000 & it was a nightmare to buy for lower & middle class. They used to dream / desire for this car that at least once in their life they would get into it. Now, After 20 years of its launching, it has become Alto 800 & available between range ₹2,50,000-4,00,000.

An interesting fact is that the same lower & middle class (who were unable to afford it back in the 90’s) now don’t show much interest in this dream car because they could afford a car in the range of ₹5,00,000-6,00,000. All along, through these 20 years, they didn’t make extra effort to achieve their desired car. They only had been living life the way it is to be lived. Then, how come they became so rich that they could buy something which is an expensive / once unaffordable thing.

Guys, this is called “Time value of Money” in economics. It means the value of ₹100 won’t be the same tomorrow. It’s a system of time / world. If today you are having something new, it won’t be having the same importance / worth after a year or two, because technology changes itself as time passes.

Example –

Imagine, you are a lower middle class person in late 90’s & early 20’s India. You see flying airplanes & you wish you could fly in airplanes. If you aren’t curious about this desire, you are gonna fly anyway in 2017. Thanks to intense competition from aviation firms. Which results in the air ticket fare available even less than a train second class AC fare.

Even if it hadn’t been the competition among air companies. You would’ve to fly easily in 2017 (Time value of money). It took only 15 years to complete your desire without much effort. If you had taken it seriously, you would’ve done it in a maximum of 3-5 years.

You can think of AC’s, Refrigerator, Metro Rail or anything of your world, now feel the importance/worth when they launched years back. Now, see the importance/worth they are having today. I am speaking with regard for technology & its changing nature of customers with time. When an I phone version launches in the Market, it goes well with high class society & seems far from low class & middle class. But after a year or two its customer category / class starts to change. It becomes affordable for the middle & lower class.

Conclusion – Anything which seems difficult to achieve today is easy to get tomorrow & the thing which doesn’t seem today is gonna be difficult to achieve tomorrow. So, something which is gonna come to you easily in your life, does it make sense to make it a dream / desire. I guess a dream / desire must require intense hard work to achieve itself. You have to work hard to achieve something which is nowhere today & will require your hard work to achieve that tomorrow. Now, what we should dream for is our second part in.

2. Which things to desire about to achieve in our life

Jumping straight away on the point, I must say that your desire must have the involvement of research, ideas, discovery, inventions & so on. Let me tell you why to do so. Guys, I guess a dream must add something in you, it could be knowledge, experience. More of this, a dream must keep you engaging to learn more & more.

Speaking of the above example (aeroplane), if you had dreamed about a human flying in air on his own, you would’ve been thinking about the technology, possibility, world’s progress in this regard & so on in your spare time. You would’ve gone one step ahead by searching for it on several mediums or would’ve even started your efforts into this to make it possible if you were highly curious / interested about it.

So, ultimately you were engaged in something progressive for the world. You were working on an idea to see it possible in real life. Someone has said that a person is the product of his / her thinking. When you think of something outstanding many times a day. It’s gonna bring strong positive change in you, which is gonna lead you to your success.

You can also use Celebrating the Journey to reflect on the small steps you take toward a bigger goal.