Doubt Can Kill Your Dreams

Doubt kills more dreams that failure ever will. 

All of us have dreams (or goals, if you want to look at them that way.)  As an example, we want to lose weight.  When you decided that you wanted to do this, did you doubt that you could do it?  Did you think that you could do it, and then have someone else tell you that you wouldn't be able to do it, therefore, making you doubt yourself?  How do you think that this will affect your attempt?  If you have a bad day, do you just throw in the towel, and tell yourself that you knew you couldn't do it?

I fall into this category.  I want to run a mile, but I have caught myself doubting that I will ever be able to do it.  I have doubted my ability to do this for many years. I justify the doubt by telling myself that I'm just not a runner.  Well, I want to get past that.  I really want to be able to run a mile.  I know that to accomplish this, I will have to constantly tell myself that I can do it - even if I don't totally believe it at first.  If I tell myself this daily, I will start to believe it, and I will probably be able to do a little more each day until I get this done.  I don't want my doubt to kill the dream.  I may fail, but I can always keep trying.

When we doubt our ability to accomplish something, it becomes a form of negative self-talk.  Telling ourselves that we doubt we can do something, will make it hard to accomplish, if not, impossible.  When we tell a friend  that we doubt we can accomplish something, the verbalization of that will plant more seeds of doubt in our minds, especially if your friend agrees with us!

Let's decide that from here on out, we will do our best to never doubt ourselves.  After all, we are capable of accomplishing anything we set our minds on doing!  Let's not verbalize our doubts to anyone else.  Let's keep telling ourselves that we can accomplish our goals and dreams.  We must do this, even if we have to tell ourselves the same thing multiple times.  If we say something enough, sooner or later we will start to believe it.  Once we believe it, we are mentally at a place to reach these goals.  It's then that we realize that  nothing can stop us.

If we fail, or feel like we fail, we must get back up and try again.  Sometimes we have to fail to succeed.  Failures do make us stronger, if we just don't give up!

Don't let your doubts kill your dreams!  Let your positive thoughts and determination make your dreams come true!

Always remember – YOU ARE AWESOME!  Go out and make it a great day!

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