If you know what you want to become, it is easy to become it than some one who doesn't know. A key part of success is knowing what you want. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. You can't hit a target if you don't know what it is. Identify who you want to be before what you should do. "People with dreams know no poverty. Each of us is rich as our own dreams." Knowing what you want to be in life doesn't make you what you want to be, but it will certainly get you there someday. Knowing what you want determines what you will get. Knowing your outcome is the first key to reaching it.
To be something physical, you must first be that thing mentally. If you don't create it first in your mind, don't bother yourself with the reality. Before something happens on the outside, it must first happen inside. No thought.....no thing. You cannot create a thing until you have thought that thing because we live in the a thought world.
All causation is mental. Everything you are or ever will be is a result of how you use your mind. The entire man made world that you see is simply an expression of thought. Your entire life is an expression of your own THINKING. You will inevitably improve the quality of your life.
A person's way of doing things is the direct result of the way the person thinks about things. Your inner thought shape themselves into your outer life. Your thought are you. "A thought held in it produce the form of the thought." Mental state distinguishes winners from losers. We flourish or die depending on how we utilize our mind. Have confidence in the efficacy of your mind. Thought is supreme.
Having a mental picture what you want to become. "It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. Only by knowing what the future looks like are people able to create it. We often lose in life not because we lack what it takes to win, but because we don't dream. To be successful, dream while others are wishing. Your future must first be imagined before it can become a reality. Dreamers see promise in their future. Those who do not dream only see future in the future. He who dreams, wins.
Excellent advice @marfosharron! Goal setting is so important to be able to route your plans.
Thank you very much @patrickulrich