The idea
of reaching out and helping others realize their dreams resulted in several
calls about those who do just the opposite. These people do their best to make
their acquaintances “see the light” and make them understand that they will
never realize their dreams, especially by means of the path that they have
chosen. They tell their “friends” that they aren’t seeing the truth and “that
won’t really work”, whatever “that” is.
These
people attempt to convince us that we will never be able to rise to the level
to which we aspire and that the means which we may have chosen to succeed on
that journey is not reality. They will cajole, argue, and make fun of us for our
dreams and claim to know what we should do.
Actually
these people are afraid that if we dream of bettering our status in life, and actually
attain that dream or that success, we will see them for what they really are,
skeptics who don’t have our best interests at heart. We cannot allow ourselves
to be held back by these people, those who doubt that dreams can come true and
that we can accomplish our dreams.
These
people are the “hangers-on” who want to ride on our coattails for the rest of
our lives, if we allow them to do so, all the time telling us how we will fail.
They are the people will take from us without ever giving to other people and
will sap our energy from us. They do not want to be proven wrong for that would
mean that they don’t know, or want, what is best for us.
These people
are full of negative karma, and they will poison our minds, hearts, and souls.
They will drain us of our ambition and our drive to success. They do not have
our best interests at heart nor do they care about giving to give. They only
want to prove themselves right by crushing our dreams and our efforts to
accomplish those dreams.
They
always have someone who told them how life should be lived (which is opposite from
what we dream), or they believe that if what they have accomplished was good
enough for their parents and grandparents, it is good enough for them, and for
us. They always know someone who knows more than we do.
These are not our “friends”; they are the millstones which
will drag us away from our dreams and keep us from our success in life. We must
continue to dream and keep revising our dreams to ever higher levels. Do you
want to build your business by so many clients this year? Why not double that
next year? Do you want to start a business from scratch? Why not take it to a
profitable level next year?
Dreams are like goals: they should be obtainable, but they
should challenge us to revise and raise the level from time to time. We should
be able to measure our goals as well as our dreams. We should be able to
explain what attaining them will mean for us. We must know the “why” we want to
attain them. Then, they will mean more to us, both while we are striving towards
them as well as when we reach them.
Right on Mr. Teasley! Success breeds success and associating with optimistic, successful folks who encourage us to be the best that we can be is critically important. Ignore the "Debbie Downers" of the world!
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