When you have a dream, ambition or goal that you’re excited about reaching – you consider all options to fulfill it, right?
Including taking advice.
Now advice is often wonderful, heartfelt and exactly what you need – after all, there’s lots of routes to hitting a target and some people have (possibly) taken that or a similar journey already . So they have some great tips – and – know of pitfalls to warn you about.
It all helps.
Except when your enthusiasm and excitement is abruptly stopped by someone – perhaps more than one person – telling you that your dream is ‘just not possible’. That may be true, but what if it’s not? What if that person also had a dream, and despite how much they tried (or not), they failed to reach it – or they gave up along the way.
Achieving your dream is not going to be easy, not just because you have hurdles along the way to overcome but because some of those hurdles are in fact, people. The very people who you think are going to help you, but their words knock you back. They hinder you instead.
Of course their intent is to warn you off from disappointment – the kind that they perhaps have felt too in their lives.
But what if, there was a tiny bit of envy there too? That there is a chance you could achieve when they couldn’t ….or didn’t?
So here’s my advice.
Always be prepared to listen, and then choose which advice to take forward. If the advice you hear motivates you and inspires you to move forward in the direction of your dream, with some good tips thrown in – take it.
If it doesn’t , think seriously about what you’ll do with it. Because doubt kills dreams more than failure ever will.
You can make your dream happen. Find a way.
amana
Straightforward, straight talking Coach.
The Spotlight ‘Guru’