If you're anything like me, some things just seem so hard to get started on.
You go around in circles, around and around, looking for the right moment, the right location, the exact instant in your life when everything is exactly the way you envision it should be for the outcomes you seek to come about and when you will finally have the courage to go and chase the dreams that you have.
As you take each step, you unknowingly are digging yourself deeper into a hole; the trail you've been treading on for so long turns into a cavern. Days pass; days turn into weeks; weeks turn into months; months turn into years. Before you know it, you've dug a hole so deep that you have no clue how you'll be able to get out.
When you finally wake up, you feel like you're stuck, the hole that you have inadvertently dug yourself is so deep that you can't seem to find a way out.
We fear the unknown, the place full of doubts and uncertainty. We look at others who seem to have it right, and try to study their formula, but look at everything except for the principle cause of their success. You wonder how it is that they are not stuck in the hole that you find yourself in, but then you realize, you are the one that is stuck. They just didn't stop moving forward. That is the difference. No matter what went on, they treaded forwards, without holding back and turning in circles and circles, willing to fail, willing to be wrong, willing to make mistakes, the very things that you were trying to avoid.
The fear of going through all of those "negative" situations is the thing that directly prevents you from ever getting to the positive outcome that you desire.
Instead of looking at HOW people because successful, look at WHY they became successful. The most successful people were not held back by the fear of making mistakes. They made mistakes, learned from them and kept on moving.
Be willing to take that first step. The dream that you're chasing will stay in your head until you make it a real. Make it into something tangible and, after it's made, take the steps to refine it and mold it into what your abilities and determination will allow you to build.
Where normal people saw a stone, ordinary and worthless, Michelangelo saw his sculptures and began picking away at them, chisel by chisel until they formed the works of art he envisioned.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Don't be afraid to not meet anyone's expectations. Don't let the feeling of self doubt block your path and drive you around in circles.
Take that first step.
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