Never quit on your dreams. Regardless of what your day, or your week, or even what your year is like; never let your dreams fade away. When life gets busy and the day to day activities push what you really want into the background, don’t allow yourself to quit on your dreams. When the unexpected causes delays, or even detours, it doesn’t mean your destination is out of reach. It only means your estimated time of arrival might change. There’s a big difference.
Use Positive Affirmations
On your drive home, or just after getting up in the morning, use positive affirmations to keep your mind filled with positive thoughts. Speak affirmations that are in the present tense. “I am successful,” instead of “I will be successful,” will draw that success into your life. Even though you don’t see the results just yet, never quit using these affirmations. In the midst of your working day, take a few minutes to visualize your goals. Keep thinking about it, keep talking about it, keep creating visions of your dreams.
Learn to Bounce Back
If you have been away from working on your dreams sometimes it’s easy to tell yourself you blew it, or it’s too late, or what is the point in continuing. You need to let go of that self-defeating conversation and allow yourself to start again. Learn to bounce back; change your self-talk, pick up where you left off, or re-group if you have to. But get right back at it and keep going forward until you reach your goal.
Remember Why You Started
Seems like sound advice…go back to the reasons why you started working on your dream in the first place. Was it because you wanted more time and freedom? Were you wanting to provide for your family? Did you start because you needed more out of life? Whatever your reason, revisit your “why.” How would your life change if you fulfilled your dream? Allow your “why” to motivate you, to propel you forward.
Success is a Choice
Never quitting on your dreams boils down to choosing between giving up and moving forward. Each day you have the opportunity to choose success or choose to let go of your dreams. Success comes one step at a time, one day at a time, one choice at a time. If you truly want to reach your destination, you need to make the decision to work at it each and every chance you get. Once you decide, then take the actions necessary that move you forward. Write another paragraph in your book, take another course related to your degree, explore other job opportunities; whatever your dream…choose to succeed rather than give up. Never quit on your dreams.
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