Friday, January 18, 2008

Positive thinking and Wishful thinking

I am sure many of you would have read and heard motivation speeches. And it is the will power of a man can allow us to achieve even the impossible. The Adidas slogan goes “Impossible is nothing!”

That advice has been very useful in my life and I pretty much belief it until I heard about the fine line between positive thinking and wishful thinking. As much as we have to dream of achieving great dreams we should keep them realistic.

If the dream was within reach it is Positive thinking

If it was an unrealistic dream then it is wishful thinking.

Setting goals in life is very important. “If you fail to plan you plan to fail!” everyone needs an aim in life. Little goals have to be set to be achieved. Then you see the progress and the goal seems possible to be achieved. Wishing for success overnight is just plain wishful thinking.

8 comments:

Lena said...

you know sometimes setting only achievable aims is like restrictions. you consider something to be not possible to achieve and then you just give up on it without trying. I would say planning is everything but sometimes you should plan for impossible as well because you never know when impossible might become possible.

Vasanthan said...

lena: good point there. aim the sky and reach the stars. i agree with you that we have to make our aims high, but only with a backing from a good plan. A dream with no plan is just a wish.

Thanks for your input! and thanks for dropping by

Gunjan Aylawadi said...

Setting goals in life is very important. “If you fail to plan you plan to fail!

very important if u wish to make smthng gud outta ur life!!:)
cheers!

KP said...

well said....
“If you fail to plan you plan to fail!"

thats life........;)

Vasanthan said...

@kp: it is a saying i got from my teacher when i was doing my o'level examinations.
Thanks for visiting

m.flowerr said...

Nice blog!!
Dreams,planning,efforts, backed by 'support' helps you acheive your dream.Ain't it?

Preetilata【ツ】 said...

grt motivational post. impossible itself says i am possible. but we sud also go for wishful thinking. it will mk our life much more adventureos n intersting but thn v hv to work towrds it.

tk cr :)

Sameera Ansari said...

I totally agree!As they say,"Rome was not built in a day!" :)