Exercise your imagination

Sometimes, i fall off my wave of positivity and get hit by certain thoughts and doubts that make me question my own goals and capabilities, and i begin to wonder if i'm stretching myself too thin. Can i really achieve this much? What if i don't do it well?

These are my down times, and i begin to crawl back into my shell, threatened by uncertainty and the absence of conviction. But not too soon i realize that it's all my mind. It is ultimately the mind that tricks you into thinking that you're not good enough for certain things, that tells you to lower your goals, that tells you to be "realistic". In the end, it is the mind that stops you from being your most amazing self.

Let's be truthful with ourselves here. We're not meant to be realistic. "Realistic" is just way of conforming to the situation around you, of changing yourself to fit with the flow. To be realistic is to keep yourself from fully trying to achieve your true potential. Was Edison being realistic when he invented the electric bulb? I think not. But still he did, and how everyone celebrates that success now.

So what we need to do, is to stop. Just stop whatever you're doing, and inhale. Breathe.

And then imagine.

Imagine yourself achieving all your goals, ALL of it. Even the most impossible ones. The secret dreams you have of being an astronaut? Your fifteen-year-old plan to be a landscape artist and design the most amazing park on earth? Your clandestine desire to speak eight different languages?

Imagine the ways you can go about it. If you can't, then think harder. "Impossible" or "i'm not meant for that" are merely limiting conditions that you set upon yourself, and they can most certainly disappear if you should chose so. It really is that simple, believe it or not.

Each of us are meant for great things, and you don't have to have a photographic memory, or be quick at maths, or know how to draw, to have awesome things stored in your future. And that is the reality of it all. Remember the lyrics, look into your heart and you'll find the sky is yours? Think about it.

Why are you stopping yourself?

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

Be awesome always.