What's Stopping You?

Hello,

How are you doing connected to your dreams and aspirations?

If you are truly progressing well, congratulations. You can stop reading here and just keep doing what you are doing.

If you read past the above, then you must be admitting to not doing as well as you would like in attaining your dreams and aspirations. Welcome to a club with many, many other members.

So, why don't people make as much progress as they would like to in attaining their life goals?

There are many answers to this question. Today I would like to concentrate on just one aspect. Being stopped.

Being stopped can be really frustrating because you believe that the cause for the stop is not down to you. Something external is preventing you from progressing. The actual reaction to being stopped in this way can vary depending on how you perceive the source of the stop. It may be a person or group, lack of resources, rules, or a myriad of other things. One reaction is to build up resentment and anger towards the perceived source. Another reaction is to simply forge ahead anyway, "butting heads" with what is opposing you. 

The real truth here is that the only thing that can stop you is you. You must consciously give up on your dreams or aspirations. At this point you have gone into agreement with your own negative view of your self. As this is actually a lie, to maintain you own honor you now must reduce your own power and take on a smaller game. If you do this once, you will most likely set a pattern for the future and are likely to continue doing it. Before you know it, you have completely given up all your ambitions and are settling for a "safe" existence in a forever dwindling universe. 

I don't know about you, but this does sound very depressing. You, an infinitely powerful being with an abundance of potential greatness, have agreed to be less than infinite. Yuck! Let's get away from this thinking and back to the positive.

So what is the answer to this malaise?

The real deal here is to look at all the steps you can do towards reaching your dreams. Build a powerful list of all your positive attributes that align with your dreams and aspirations. Make more of all of these and look at how you can make them even more powerful. All it actually takes to reach fabulous achievement is simply continuing to take your next correct step. Even if these steps are small, by continuing to take them you will eventually reach your aim.

Now I have a big challenge for you, if you are up to it, that is.

For the next month, every time you have negative thoughts about reaching your dreams, stop and write down all the positive aspects of your progress toward that dream. If you do this truthfully, I completely guarantee the results will surprise you and could actually be nothing short of miraculous.  

Let me know how the challenge goes for you. I'd love to hear all about it.

Have a breakthrough week,

Malcolm