Let your dream guide your decisions

Depending on your personality, dreaming about the future can be scary or exciting, or both.

However, our ability to dream helps us to create a drive and a focus. It determines a destination.

Do you know where you are leading the people that follow you?

Do you know where you are leading your children toward?

When your children turn 18, and they are getting ready to leave for college, move to another city, or pursue other endeavors, what kind of relationship do you want to have with them? What kind of relationship do you want your children to have with you?

Determination of a destination will guide you in all of your conversations with your children, discipline strategies, and ways you invite others to help you raise your kid with you.

Otherwise, you will listen to all kinds of parenting advice, try all kinds of things, and move between different goals. Your children may be confused and unsure if they can trust you to lead them.

You can consider the quality of your relationships to create goals.

You can dream about the type of person you want to raise as the goal of parenting.

You can imagine the type of friends and relationships your children will have with their peers, boss, and younger generations.

There are many ways to think about goals. Do you know yours?

And what’s more important is does your partner know your goals and is aligned with you on those goals.