Words by Te-Erika
Don't allow these traps to limit your vision. Expand your mind.
1. Listening to people with limited minds
You want to step out and achieve your dreams but you feel as though you need moral support. You reach out to those closest to you and they advise you to play it safe, step back and appreciate the life you have. Their reluctance to go after their dreams rubs off on you and you give up, resigning to accept your reality as your permanent placement.
This acceptance blocks you from achieving your very best life. No one will cherish your dream as much as you do and no one will set your dream into motion as wholeheartedly as you could. When you surround yourself with people who don’t have a vision for their lives, the fire for your own vision burns out quickly. Don’t listen to anyone who would dare to speak a negative word about the burning passion in your heart. If you have to step away from certain friendships, do it. If you have to distance yourself from negative family members, make the sacrifice. As long as you associate with people who have limited minds, their limitations will transfer over to your life and you will never achieve the fulfillment you desire.
Affirm Yourself: My associations with others will only pull me closer to where they are headed. I will walk away from anyone who is not headed in my direction.
2. Marinating in fear
Experiencing fear is as natural as breathing. The fear of the unknown, that tingly feeling in your body when faced with a tough decision, should no longer be dreaded. It should be embraced and welcomed as the first indication that you are about to move forward into your destiny. Allow the nervousness to drive you to make a decision and stand firm in that decision. Trust yourself to make the right choices for your life. Even if a decision you make seems to be the wrong one, you won’t get a ‘time out’ for it. You’re an adult.
Take that step past the threshold of fear. Recognize it, give it a name and stand up to it. When you approach a stray dog on the street, if you stand confidently, he will not bother you. If he senses your fear, he will run after you. The same principle is found with facing any fear.
Understand that fear is really based on having faith in evil instead of having faith in good. Which faith do you follow? Which do you desire? The truth is, the faith you believe most will be exactly what you attract.
Affirm Yourself: I will embrace my fears and use them to catapult me to success.
Take that step past the threshold of fear. Recognize it, give it a name and stand up to it. When you approach a stray dog on the street, if you stand confidently, he will not bother you. If he senses your fear, he will run after you. The same principle is found with facing any fear.
Understand that fear is really based on having faith in evil instead of having faith in good. Which faith do you follow? Which do you desire? The truth is, the faith you believe most will be exactly what you attract.
Affirm Yourself: I will embrace my fears and use them to catapult me to success.
3. Becoming tied down by your lifestyle
We all have dreams of living comfortably and our desired lifestyle can be attained through faith and hard work. But don’t allow the trappings of a luxurious lifestyle to keep you away from pursuing your goals.
Instead of graduating from college and leasing that new car, you may wait it out and continue to drive your old one, just until you are sure that your first job is a right fit for you.
So many people are in miserable states in life, on their job or in relationships because they are tied down by the bills they have accumulated. Of course you can’t travel to Europe to gain inspiration for your art when you have just leased a new Navigator. Of course you can’t take an unpaid but valuable internship with your favorite mentor because you just leased that beautiful home. But these were your choices. You chose to become tied to a job that you may or may not like in order to have the lifestyle that you want.
It may be best to wait until you have found the perfect fit for employment before acquiring lavish toys. No, you can’t impress your friends if you’re still driving your college car or living with your parents, but if life is about impressing people around you, you’ll never make it past their expectations for you.
Impress yourself by being responsible and adjusting your lifestyle around the pursuit of your goals. Live as simply as you can, holding firm to the faith that when your gift makes room for your success, you will have more than enough toys to play with.
Affirm Yourself: I will live a simple life now as I pursue my passion. The rest will come easily, in time.
Instead of graduating from college and leasing that new car, you may wait it out and continue to drive your old one, just until you are sure that your first job is a right fit for you.
So many people are in miserable states in life, on their job or in relationships because they are tied down by the bills they have accumulated. Of course you can’t travel to Europe to gain inspiration for your art when you have just leased a new Navigator. Of course you can’t take an unpaid but valuable internship with your favorite mentor because you just leased that beautiful home. But these were your choices. You chose to become tied to a job that you may or may not like in order to have the lifestyle that you want.
It may be best to wait until you have found the perfect fit for employment before acquiring lavish toys. No, you can’t impress your friends if you’re still driving your college car or living with your parents, but if life is about impressing people around you, you’ll never make it past their expectations for you.
Impress yourself by being responsible and adjusting your lifestyle around the pursuit of your goals. Live as simply as you can, holding firm to the faith that when your gift makes room for your success, you will have more than enough toys to play with.
Affirm Yourself: I will live a simple life now as I pursue my passion. The rest will come easily, in time.
4. Discounting your fantasy as unachievable
Can you think of any inventor or celebrity who didn’t first believe that it could be done? Most often if you ask a successful person how they saw themselves before they achieved their success they will tell you that they always knew that they would do accomplish it. At times doubts creep in, but in your heart you know what you were destined to become.
Your mind marinates on it daily and when you see others who are living out your dream you silently whisper, “I can do that.” You CAN do that! You can do it your way and you can have just as much success.
If your mind can create it, your hands can too.
Affirm Yourself: My fantasy is as real to me as the door I walk through everyday. It is mine to have and to hold, through sickness and health, until death do us part.
5. Failing to lay a proper foundation for your success
Your mind marinates on it daily and when you see others who are living out your dream you silently whisper, “I can do that.” You CAN do that! You can do it your way and you can have just as much success.
If your mind can create it, your hands can too.
Affirm Yourself: My fantasy is as real to me as the door I walk through everyday. It is mine to have and to hold, through sickness and health, until death do us part.
5. Failing to lay a proper foundation for your success
Being a dreamer is a great thing, but no dream comes true without first understanding that just as a seed takes time to grow, your dream will need nurturing before it blooms. Lay a firm foundation for your success by learning as much as you can about that dream, believing you can have it and making a outline of how you plan to get there.
I once read somewhere that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Do the groundwork, get the soil just right and watch your miracle spring forth.
Affirm Yourself: I will nurture the seed of my dream by making sure I have the right soil.
I once read somewhere that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Do the groundwork, get the soil just right and watch your miracle spring forth.
Affirm Yourself: I will nurture the seed of my dream by making sure I have the right soil.
3 comments:
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