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What's Really Stopping You?
Yesterday, I was riding with my little brother and we began to talk about his life after college. Although he has a year left, he’s worried about landing a job. Like many soon-to-be grads, he’s concerned about finding a job that will not only pay the bills, but will also be something he won’t hate.
While we drove, I asked him to think beyond what job he’d settle for just for a decent paycheck. Instead I asked him to think about what he’d do if money wasn’t an issue.
Just a little background: My brother is a musician. He’s played the piano, organ, clarinet and bassoon for years, often times spending hours practicing complicated classical pieces and performing with his school’s band. So when we were discussing his future profession, I found it odd that music never entered our conversation.
When I brought it up, I heard a familiar refrain: “I would love to play…but there’s no money in it.”
He had automatically dismissed doing what he loved because he thought it would be impossible to make a living—despite the fact that thousands of musicians make money from their art.
Listening to my brother reminded me that this was the exact same story I told myself for years. I stayed in my teaching job, wishing that I could trade it in and become a writer, but the thought seemed utterly foolish to me. The starving artist thing only seems to be cool if you were in your early 20s, and I wasn’t interested in eating beans and rice every day for my art, no matter how miserable I was in the classroom.
Thankfully, I realized that while I was lamenting about my job and feeling stuck, others were doing exactly what I wanted to do, and I quickly set about changing the course of my life, one step at a time.
So how does this relate to you? Like my brother and me, I’m sure you’ve talked yourself out of your dreams many times before. Perhaps you thought your dream career was foolish, or maybe you felt you were too old, too stuck, or too far in debt to start over (or too jaded to love again). Whatever the case may be, only YOU have the power to change your situation.
We believe the story we constantly tell ourselves, so stop talking about all of the things you cannot do, and start thinking about how you can turn your challenges into opportunities.
Once you move from “Woe is me” to “I think I can,” you’ll not only start to see that your goals are possible, but you’ll begin to see a path to reach them.
So...what's stopping you?
~Britni Danielle |
Think: Nobody Does It Like You
“According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.”
- Deepak Chopra
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Do: Say Something Nice
What's the old saying? "If you don't have anything nice to say, keep your mouth shut?" And yet so many of us say the meanest, most low-down (thanks granny) things to ourselves that if uttered by someone else, we'd consider them "fighting words." Unfortunately, they've become apart of our everyday inner dialogue, keeping us trapped in our negative thoughts and unable to reach our goals. But it’s time to change things up.
Starting today repeat this to yourself whenever you feel like you’re getting ready to pick yourself apart. Ready?
“Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”
Once you master that one, check out VitalAffirmations.com for more positive sayings.
HAPPY MONDAY!
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