It Ain’t Bragging If You Can Do It

There are many people who have limitations in their minds, who have lost that fire in their eyes, who, because of the experiences of life, have said, "No, I can't do that. A lot of people never try anything different because they have been convinced by people in their lives that they can't do it. They exist within the context of other people's perceptions of them.

Many people doubt themselves because when they think about doing something at some critical point in their lives, somebody they respected and honored, someone they trusted, said you can't do that. And they accepted that. You should also not try to claim it as your own. The way others perceive you does not have to be your reality. It is not what others say about you that is important, it is what you say about yourself that jeopardises your future.

What they say about you will never bring you down. What you say about yourself will destroy you. What would your life be like if you decided not to worry about what people thought of you? How would your life change if you decided to let go of some of your fears? What would your life be like if you decided to become courageous? So if you're at a place in your life and you're not happy with it, you have to change some things.

However, you must make a conscious decision to change. And it's not dependent on anybody else. It doesn't matter what your mother thinks, what your coworkers think, what your siblings think, or what your children think. They have nothing to do with it. This decision is yours and yours alone. Ridicule is the price of being iconic. You are going to divorce yourself from the crowd. You are going to be met by the naysayers. The critics They're going to laugh at you.

Your job is to fortify your interior core so that it doesn't matter if people call you crazy. Your success at any level creates an opportunity for envy. Staying down is the only way to avoid it. If you lie dead, even the animals won't bite you. The cost of getting up is the risk of being bitten. And you must decide whether you are so afraid of being bitten that you are willing to spend the rest of your life lying dead, or whether there is something inside of you that says, "Bite me or not, I'm getting up." I'm going to be my best self. I'm going to do all I can to make you hate me. I'm going for it.

Every negative comment should prompt you to take some productive action. Every time somebody says something to you, you should go do whatever it is that is going to make them have to eat their words. Right then, right now. Don't give in. Don't be like everybody else. Don't give up. Don't settle because things are hard. You have to live your life with the expectation that great things are coming your way.

You have to expect it. Begin working and developing yourself right away, and prepare yourself for what you want because you expect to get it. You are correct, whether you believe you can or believe you cannot. You've got to see it before you see it. You've got to see yourself healed. You've got to see your family whole. You've got to see your future. It's you. You will decide how your life will unfold. You're going to determine whether or not your life is exciting or whether it's boring. You look at your life.

You look at what you've produced. Is it giving you what you want? Are you living on purpose? Are you living your dream? Are you acting on your ideas? Are you doing all you can do? Have you gotten comfortable? Are you challenging yourself? Are you experimenting? Are you learning something different? Is your life exciting or monotonous?

You had some ideas in your dreams that you may need to go back and brush off and reconsider. and say, "I've got to do this. This is my stuff. This is what I'm supposed to do. This is why I showed up. Where are you going with your life?