What is your greatest fear?
Most people might come up with a few of the standard inevitable answers like experiencing some kind of horrifying event like murder, maiming, mutilation...which usually implies they fear being a victim to someone else.
But what most people truly fear... is themselves. It is those disabling thoughts that limit our own potential.
For as long as I can remember, I have been had these disabling thoughts of doubt and disability. I have second guessed my own potenial and my own dreams. I had lofty dreams. Dreams that I could become someone that could make a difference.
I didn't want to be just an ordinary person with an ordinary life with ordinary things to define my existence. I wanted to make a difference. So I felt I had purpose. That I was special in some way. However, It became clear to me that when I shared my dreams of becoming a writer, or an artist, or an actor...those ideals were met with condescending patronization.
I know most of our generation has had this experience. Being told by someone who has credibility in our lives that we cannot achieve what we want. They then go about pointing us in a direction that they feel is more realistic, productive or based on their own limitations or experience.
These well-meaning words of wisdom and guidance about who and what we SHOULD become is based on fear that we might fail. But what is failure? Is it just the process of the journey? Practising our goals until they become firmly patterned in our experience.
So practise makes perfect. Yes, it does. Visualize your goals being fulfulled. Practise the way it will make you feel to achieve what you dream about. Set those thoughts in motion and move forward.
It is up to us to decide if we believe the limiting labels others have for us or move forward practising our own belief of our own dreams and bring into our existence those things we want.
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