How Our Brains Stop Us From Achieving Our Goals (and How to Fight Back)

(Fantasizing means indulging in daydreaming about something desired.)
Would you believe that fantasizing can lead to demotivation and can ruin your goals? A research has proved this. According to psychologists , though fantasizing is essential and benificial, too much of it can prove to be disastrous.
For example : a challenge mostly faced by the young generation :
Challenge : to find a fulfilling job
The people who spent a lot of time in fantasizing , performed the worst in some points:
- they were offered fewer jobs
- they applied for lesser jobs
- if they got a job, they had lesser salaries

Now you would wonder , why does this happen?
Actually , when we fantasize we expect that we will be greeted with success and it seems like we have already attained our goal. This works as a concealer which hides the  problems we are likely to face along the path to reach our goal. So, we ned to be realistic in our approach.

We often make to-do lists every now and then , be it regarding day to day studies or future career plans. We are very confident that we would be able to perform all the tasks as scheduled. But we all know that this seldom happens. This is because we do not want to consider the difficulties and we deliberately ignore them. As a result we end up messing our lives.

So what should be done?
- Be practical in your approach.
  You cannot finish a week's work in an hour or so.
- Do make plans and fantasize about your future but keep yourself notified about the upcoming dangers and take suitable steps to avoid the same.
- Give your mind some rest. After all it works all day round.
- Never be in a hurry. Give proper time to every task you do.
- Give sufficient time to relaxation, meditation and enjoyment.
- Do not indulge in procrastination. (Now you think where did this alien word come from...)
  Well, procrastination means doing less urgent tasks in comparison to the more urgent ones and thus delaying tasks, sometimes making them reach to the deadline.

In all, very less people are able to manage between fantasy and reality and the one who gets through this finds success.
Do give a thought ... This can be a turning point...