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JIMINY SELF-HELP HANDBOOK 15

Connecting our dreams to our skills is the key to empower ourselves and raise our personal awareness.
All of us can develop a set of skills to be better equipped to pursuit dreams and embrace opportunities.
These life opportunities can be seen as an open market, and sometimes we lose them because the fear
of the consequences of doing a change or due to the lack of attitude and passion to follow our dreams.

Passion and a positive attitude combined with creative thinking, pragmatism, self-analysis and
strategic planning can be seen as essential skills to pursuit dreams and make them real.

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Creative Thinking and Pragmatism

“A dream without a plan is just a wish.” Even though there are some doubts about the author of this
sentence, if the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry or the children’s book writer Katherine
Paterson, it highlights the importance of ones be creative and pragmatic to make a dream come true.

Indeed, to realise our personal and professional dreams, we need a mixture of creativity, the so often
called “out of the box” thinking, with pragmatism, keeping the “feet on the ground”. So, to succeed in
this path, on the one hand, plans must include pragmatic judgments based on what is possible, and at
the same time reflect creative thinking.
Creative thinking is the ability to make new connections between things or to consider something in a
new way, in an open and receptive mind to do things with a new approach. To practice creative
thinking, inputs from different sources are stimulating, either from books, online platforms, past