Quitting is common when the going gets tough.
When we were kids we have these big dreams that we allow others to beat out of us as we grow into adults.
Sometimes we have to put a filter in our brain and consciously choose what weâre gonna accept and what weâre gonna reject.
A lot of us have moments in our lives when we are thinking really big and then tough things happen, because thatâs what happens when you think really big, and we shrink backwards into thinking small again.
Thatâs what happens when you think big! You get bigger challenges things become really tough.
If you think back to think small the challenges might become smaller and maybe easier to accomplish small goals.
Maybe we go back to thinking smaller and dreaming smaller as a way to make it easier to live with ourselves for being a quitter, or in some cases, a non starter.
Why not make your dream so important to you that youâre eager to go through the tougher challenges to make it happen because your heart would break not to.
I think the whole purpose of those tougher challenges that seem to happen when we dream and think bigger is to force you to have to get the skills, the emotional maturity, and spiritual growth you need to be able to get what you want and fulfill that promise you made to yourself and maybe to other people.
That kind of dreaming you did when you were a child gets a common response when you grow into an adult, âitâs so hard so maybe if I just shrink back a little bit and it doesn’t have to be this great or that big and the thinking can be a little bit smaller I can scale back here and there so that should be easier and then maybe I can do it when my dream is small enough.â
Maybe instead of chipping away at your self esteem in the long run itâs much easier to go through the deal of figuring stuff out.
Instead of shrinking your dreams so you donât have to grow yourself you could grow your-self so you donât have to shrink your dreams.
You donât have to become anything to be nothing.
Itâs time to go through the deal of figuring out how to make your big dreams a reality.
The only thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream is a beautiful reality.
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When the going get tough you have two options. Shrink or Grow.
Shrinking means you donât have to become anything more than you already are. No growth. No expansion of your brain. No creative thought. It keeps you lazy. Itâs emotionally immature. Itâs poor. A temporary illusion of âeasyâ because over time the real damage comes when you realize youâve been chipping away at yourself all this time. When you chose to shrink instead of grow youâre under the illusion of making it easier to live with yourself for being a quitter.
When you chose to GROW you have to unleash the power of your human spirit to get creative, learn new things, grow up emotionally, battle laziness, staves off dementia such as alzheimer’s, itâs rich. Instead of making lazy statements you begin to ask rich questions such as asking what books you might need to read, what webinars and seminars to attend, what teachers to teach you, maybe what classes to take, what mistakes can teach you, what kind of a student and action taker you wanna be, the kind of person you want to become.
Now these challenges are just things to figure out instead of road blocks to keep you back.
Thatâs much better than shrinking backwards donât you agree?
I think so.
Itâs even easier Iâd say than subscribing to the illusion that shrinking is easier because you pay for it with the quality of your life.
Reminds me of a great philosophyâŠ
Go for a worth while life not an easy one.
As it turns out the worth while life is easier than the delusional âeasyâ life.
Donât you think?
-Tom
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