Doubts and Dreams

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Happy weekends or happy weekday depending on when you read this blog. It's all about motivation, motivation is necessary to keep us going and chasing after our dreams. One big villain of motivation is doubt, it kills motivation but that's now what it kills the most.

There's a famous quote by Suzy Kassem,

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

This quote is so powerful for me because I'm aware that it speaks to something most of us struggle with, our own thoughts. It's true when they say your biggest enemy is yourself. Your mind fights you more than anything and you need to find a way to take full control over it.

Many times, it’s not the outside world that stops us from reaching our dreams, but that little voice of doubt inside that says, what if you can’t do it? That's the biggest enemy and it has a name, doubt.

Doubt has a way of making us believe and accept that we are not good enough or that our goals are too far away or some would say ridiculously impossible. For me, I see nothing as impossible, as long as I've seen someone do it, that means a human being can do it, which includes me and it includes you.

When your doubt takes over your mind, you stop yourself before you even try.

Starting that business that you're scared will fail, trying your luck with the person you have a crush on which you think will end in embarrassment, applying for that job you think you won't get. It's all in the mind. If you think you can't, you'll hesitate and then you would end up losing the opportunity.

I may not be the first to tell you this, but failure is not the end nor is it the opposite of success, it's part of the process. The job of failure is to teach you lessons and guide you to make the right choices so you can guarantee success in the next try. It is intended to make you stronger and bring you closer to success.

Doubt shuts the door before we even walk through it.

Every person who has achieved something great or significant enough for the world to admire them had to face failure and the same challenges you're facing along the way. Only difference is they kept going regardless and if you do same, you'll achieve success so stay motivated.

Athletes lose games and win some, writers get rejected and accepted, and entrepreneurs face setbacks and big breakthroughs. It's not supposed to be success or green light all the time for you to feel right, it's a mix of both.

What successful people don't do is let doubt control them. If they had doubted themselves too much, they would have never taken that first step leading to their success.

So you see that the real danger here is not in failing, but in not trying at all. It’s better to fail and learn than to live with regret, always wondering what if you had made the move you doubted yourself over.

Don't be too afraid to try something new, it's the only way to make progress so do the new things.

Be Motivated and keep moving forward, you deserve a great future and all that is left is the price you need to pay, and don't let doubt stop you from paying that price.