It’s funny how real a dream can seem when we’re first trying to wake up. Shaking off a particularly powerful dream can make us disoriented and confused about where we are and what we are actually doing. For that single moment, we believe that something happened that actually didn’t happen – for a moment, we believe in the impossible. Perhaps we can take this gift and apply it to our goals and to our dreams. The impossible can be reached, if only we open our eyes. Can we apply this to our own motivation and success?
Too often, we believe that if no one else has done something, then it must not be possible. We don’t believe that people actually run as fast as they do or have as much money as they say they do – because we can’t prove it. We make up excuses for their money and their talents, believing they are some sort of magic trick that is meant to fool the eye. As we learn to discount the deeds of others, we are actually discounting the abilities of ourselves.
Believe In Yourself
We are telling ourselves that really big dreams aren’t possible or realistic. And when that happens, we begin to make choices that reflect this belief. For example, if you have a dream to move up in management in your company, but you believe that you can’t make it so you don’t fill out the application, you’re not going to get the job. This isn’t because you’re not talented enough; it’s because your beliefs kept you from trying. Maybe it’s time to communicate some success to yourself. Believe in yourself!
For just a moment, believe in something that you feel is impossible. What does that feel like? Do you feel empowered? Do you feel alive? When you stop thinking about the reasons why something wouldn’t or couldn’t happen, you open up the door to the possibility that it could. After all, self improvement is only a few thoughts away.
The impossible does happen – everyday, in fact. But it’s waiting for you to believe in it.
Have a most outstanding day
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
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Thank you for posting this article. I also try hard to work on gratitude as much as humanly possible lol and this article helps tremendously. My appreciation to you is in the highest sense.
To show you my gratitude I would like to share with you a post I found that also helps with this: http://consciousflex.blogspot.com/2008/01/life-changing-gratitude-by-nicholas.html
Thank you indeed. I hope it helps you and others who read as much as this post of yours as helped, please keep up the incredible work in helping others!
Thank you. I checked out your article and appreciate your effort in helping too. There are plenty of bloggers out there that are happy to share their gratitude around.
It is all too easy to set oneself limiting beliefs that restrict achievements to the familiar, the comfortable and the ordinary. However, the greatest achievements of human kind are all things that many would have thought were impossible at the time. Things like flying, and landing on the moon. These achievements were created by people who thought that it might be possible and gave it a go, often failing many times in the process.
There is a great quote by George Bernard Shaw which applies here – “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
Why doubt that something can be done? This is self limiting and encourages a mentality of avoidance. Avoiding risk and avoiding trying to strive for great goals.
I’d rather dare to dream that something is just highly improbably rather than being impossible. Unless I believe something might be possible, I am unlikely to try to do that thing, and if I never try I won’t achieve it. I’d rather risk failure in order to achieve success.
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Hi Sean,
I remember a time not so long ago when I was guilty of not believing in myself. So many times in the past I didn’t go for things that I really wanted because I didn’t think I would get them. It wasn’t because I didn’t believe I could do a certain job; I did think I would be good at it. I was just waiting for someone else to believe in me. I was waiting for someone else to give it to me.
The thing that really changed this for me was I got tired of waiting for someone else to see that I was good enough. I saw other people who were a lot more confident doing or having the things I wanted. I realized that they weren’t more talented than me. They just believed in themselves.
I am so much better at believing in myself now.:)
Very insightful Sean. We do make choices based on what we beleive we are capable of or what we deserve or what has worked for us in the past. For way too many years I used to make choices that were self-limiting and now that I can see that I find it hard to understand why I was so naive.
Now when I think of a possibilty in line with my dreams I live by the adage “If you never give it a go then you’ll never ever know!” I’ll jump right in and explore the opportunity. So far I have found many ways that don’t work but I am having an interesting life along the way.
‘Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast’
Spoken by The White Queen in Alice through the looking glass.
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There is a process called ’stretching the possibilities’ told to me by a multi-millionaire friend. She stands by a clock and for one minute per day she makes herself come up with as many impossible things she would like to have or do as she can, no matter how ridiculous. She says it helps her to release obstacles in life.
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