Plastics

The most useful advice I've ever gotten has been to dream reasonably. I understand that people tend to live in a world where they are told to dream big, and they can do anything they want with enough hard work, but frankly that isn't true. There are plenty of things that can't happen. I was once told to dream large, but reasonably. There is no point in working hard to achieve something that isn't possible. You just build yourself up for a let down in setting unreachable goals. This has benefitted me in countless cases in my life. Specifically, when planning to become co-founder of Kids for Kids I had set lofty goals for myself, and through this advice I deemed some of those goals/ideas to be unreachable; therefor, saving me time, energy, resources, and dissapointment, and focusing my energy towards more reachable goals. The point of this advice is not to discourage, but to rather set difficult - self actualized goals, and it has served me well thus far in life.