Which do you prefer: dreaming or achieving?

Question

Dreaming as in building castles in the air ("Someday, I'm gonna be a lawyer").

Achieving as in performing the actions that will get you there. (Researching law schools, putting together an application, etc.).

Personally, I prefer dreaming. Which gets nobody anywhere. : (

Answer 1

both....dreaming gives you the vision needed to achieve.....

Answer 2

Hi Tiger I remember when I graduated college I wanted to become a Lawyer to good for you haha...I would have litgator for sure with my mouth hahaha. I work in finance right now not happy I have other dreams and looking into them I taking a career work shop over the some with my University that I graduated from the point is I have dreams I majored in Media I wanted to be a News Reporter than a lawyer CIA agent etc.. it is good dream but dangerous not to act because you get scared my career counselor told me to take baby steps in achieving our dreams and doing what we love I am hoping one day I find what that is good luck with law School I wish you the best my buddie :))

Answer 3

I don't know. I always thought that I could live many lifetimes by reading biographies, history and adventure, instead of leading only one life. I hope there's no reincarnation as I do believe I've done everything already. A certain amount of achievement is necessary, even if just to make a living and you probably want to make your dreams part of your reality, anyway. I dream through films or reading and In the process may find that the reality behind the dream is not to my liking at all and find a different way to go. Everything any way has it's advantages and yet things you have to leave behind. You can take the most improbable career and somehow in time you really love it so pick a field with durability, if such a thing exists. They say that you should do something you love, but if you love life that could be anything when you get into it and nothing if you don't get into it. Don't we want to put reality into our dream in some way and yet reality doesn't seem to match the dream and there are more hardships than you can imagine if you follow a dream. You might love the idea of working in another country only to become terribly tired of another culture in the end. I like variety so much, but in the end I'm still me so my roots tell. There are so many paradoxs. I like to think, so I don't like a job that takes a lot of my thought as I want that free. How would it work if I didn't like to think and got a job in computers. I wouldn't have time to think, maybe that would be good, if I don't like to think, so which way is it? I know one thing, a job with no thought or activity drove me crazy while some would do nothing else and a job can change. It can be more the people, who come and go, that make a job and they may go. Stories about lawyers, law school, courts, might give you a better idea of what it's really like and where you would definitly fall down. I tried sales because I was no good with people and never was, so that was not so good. I dreamt of living in the islands, but that isn't the real difference in life, our inner life is. The novelists describe everything so romantically, but with no imagination I didn't see the same thing at all, just water and sand eventually. The books were better. Hm. And a lot to be said for movies. Reading across the ten categories in the library is a good compromise between reality and imagination. Facts spark imagination, give you the big picture and help in any field you go into. That about jobs fits with other things like marriage. In the end, I think what you are in harmony with is better. If it must be a French spouse, make sure the socio-economic level is the same and they are second generation in the counrty your in so you whole world doesn't get entirely shaken, the culture is not too different and you don't have to be traveling all the time. Another culture may work while your young, but there's a limit.
Achieving is usually a let down for me, then I have to get another goal and happiness is not in anything out there. The saying "Go within or you'll go without." says that the real goal is to know yourself and then so much will be beautiful and you'll want to do it all and probably enjoy it all. The ones called "wise" like the Budha, found spirituality the most compelling and many of them never even wrote a book. They knew how our insides worked, intuition, emotional intelligence and sprituality, psychology and a touch of philosophy and anything having to do with the individual, you, and life. Those are considered non-fiction so non-fiction maybe a bridge or alance between achieving and dreaming. Achieving, having, doing actually take up your whole life and can they really be said to be your life, or is it something else, like happiness, love, of self, life or ideas? Second generation rich often loved learning or just living. I would think my life wasted if I spent all my time building an empire instead of enjoying life. My time is my life, why give it away unless it's for something more enduring than an achievement, or being a lawyer unless I found something higher in it, but if you read any law, I just don't see it. Boring, but who can say, it's up to you. I had to make my love after hours and keep the hours down on the job. Then your free to follow your interest. The philosophy of law may be more fun, but not much of a job and I would be more interested in the wider applications than just how it relates to government. Like medicine, the theory is more interesting than the practice. I'd rather read about it in Biology Today or Scientific America any day. That's my idea of imagination. I assume you don't mean imagining just fiction. I think the more reality in it the more believable and satisfying. You can read detective novels and never want to be a detective, that could be a dead end. If it leads to something tangible, like writing or say medicine from forensics or counseling, you could have dreams and reality too while understanding yourself. Only four years of going crazy in school or stretch it out with a correspondence course. The reason I'm talking about jobs is because you have to earn a living and that can be fit into the dream, so that's part of the whole scenario any way you figure it. Any way can be bad or good, depending. Teaching first year Spanish in public school the rest of your life could be a real drag unless you studied the nature of language at night and taught special ed students in a private theme school. To me that would be striving after intangibles that would never be dull or done and having the money I required to do it also. Does that weave into your thought or relate to it there at all?
Can the dreams be woven into the reality and get the best of both worlds or just plain do both together or separately? Hedging your bets is not a bad idea. "Manipulate the energy until it turns to matter."

Answer 4

I've found that planning for something is usually more enjoyable than achieving it. Anticipation can build what may turn out to be unrealistic expectations. I usually have a sense of being "let down" when realizing a dream.

Answer 5

I prefer both. :)
Before you can achieve something you must dream for it, while there are things in dreams which are impossibilities, goals must be first realized before you can achieve them.
The hard work in achieving your dream is also satisfying, and make you more grateful for what you have accomplished.
So I think both are equally important.

Answer 6

You need to dream first to achieve later. Action speaks louder than dreams.

Answer 7

The dream is the first step in that it gives you something to achieve.

Answer 8

There is no achieving without first dreaming of what you want to do/be/have. Then, of course, you must take action.

Answer 9

I enjoy both, I dream about things and those dreams help me achieve them.

Answer 10

Everyone dreams... one who has faith in his dreams, tries to achieves them and who does not have faith in his dreams, keeps on dreaming. Achievement is action but dream is the real fun.

Answer 11

Both. Depends on the situation. If it's something that you can work towards, and achieve, then go for it. Get your ambitions out there and known. Whereas, sometimes, things are better to be dreamt about. Think - can I make this happen? Answer, occaisonally, has to be no.