Personal philosophy continued

Good morning everyone.

Yesterday's discussion sought to cultivate an internal dialogue with ourselves about our personal philosophy. This blog is aimed at people who like myself desire to their potential and utilise the gifts that have been bestowed onto us in the best possible way.

One thing that I have found is that whenever I wish to achieve anything, there is an inner voice telling me that it is not possible. It is too difficult or I am not smart enough or I don't have the time or resources etc and I am sure that many of you will have experienced the same anxiety when even thinking about taking on a new task.

The thing to remember is that no matter what your current situation is,  the dream that you want to achieve has either already been done by people before you proving that it is possible or is something that has never been achieved by a human being before.  Let us examine each one in turn.

If your dream is to achieve something that has been achieved before, then it is definitely possible that you can do it to. Every skill is learnable. Nobody came to the world with a fullyffunctioning skill set. We came as babies and grew up believing what our families believed to be possible for us rather than the reality of our potential being much higher than what our families or even what we ourselves place upon us.

When I was a teenager, I was playing football with my cousin in his estate and I accidentally kicked the ball over the fence into the neighbouring school. I was too scared to climb over the school fence to retrieve the ball until he told me that he had done it before and had no problems.  Upon this new information, I had a new belief about the objective of climbing this fence and managed to retrieve the ball with minimum fuss.

When I got back over the fence, my cousin told me that he had lied earlier and had never had to go over the fence I had just climbed. The irony is that apart from telling me that he had done it before, there was probably nothing else he could have said that would have convinced me to do it.

Remember whatever your goals are - people have done it before you so it's possible that you can do it too. Better job? Weigh less?  Pass exams?  They have all been done by people who are only human just like us.

The second type of goal which has not been achieved before is a little more challenging. The important thing to remember is that if no one can achieve anything unless it's been done before, no one would ever have achieved anything worth emulating to begin with!
Whatever dream that has been put in you has been put there for a reason. Every great venture has started with a step into the unknown with a giant leap of faith.

I hope that this discussion has been educational or at least served as a reminder and I will hopefully be back in the next day or two with a new post.

Have a wonderful day.