Do you ever feel like your dreams and your desires get put on the back burner? Maybe you're busy with your day to day job so you can get those bills paid, or maybe you're too tired to pursue one more thing after a long day of soccer practice with the kids, a quick workout at the gym, and grocery shopping with a crying infant. Or maybe you just feel your time has passed and you'll never reach that goal now, so what's the point in trying?
Whatever your reason, take a second to follow these steps with me.
1. Stop and jot down why that goal was ever a "goal" in the first place. Go on, do it! How does it make you feel when you close your eyes and imagine that you've achieved that dream? You've achieved that ONE thing you've always wanted and that has been haunting you for months or even years!!!
Now...how do you feel thinking that you haven't achieved it and you're not even working towards it anymore? You've just let it sit there and collect dust in the corners of your mind.
Got it? Still with me? Ok, now,
2. Take a few more minutes and write down all of the excuses as to why you never reached that goal and why you chose to abandon it. I know, abandon is a brutal word, but isn't that what you've done? Haven't we all done it at some point with one thing or another?
3. Take a look at that list. Do you see what I see? Every single lie that you chose to listen to. Every voice that you chose to hear and allowed to steal your dreams. See that word? ALLOWED. You allowed lies, fear, guilt, and negative comments to keep you from reaching your goals.
Looking at that list of excuses, would you ever tell your best friend those things if they are pressing towards a goal?! If you're any kind of friend, then, OF COURSE NOT!!! So why say those things to/about yourself? And most of all, why BELIEVE them?
-Hope On-
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