One thing that can be particularly challenging about success is feeling that it creates distance between you and your loved ones who have perhaps not attained success.
Even though your family has instilled you with values and ideas about what you’re on this earth to do, you’ve developed some of your own. They may be different from your family’s ideas for you, about your purpose. That is okay.
The statistics never boost anybody’s hopes, but your parent is obsessed with them. She knows all of the statistics about the likelihood that you’ll ever actually make money at this, that that book will ever get published, that your business will ever actually take off, and things like that. She knows all the numbers. And she recites them to you. That’s what she did to herself—that’s why she gave up on her dreams. The numbers are not encouraging. Don’t look at them.
When I do share my work with my parents, they do something that I know they think is helpful but is actually hurtful: they only talk about the things that need improvement. That’s it. They just talk about the things that are wrong or subpar. They believe they’re helping me, but imagine how that feels for me?
A few years ago, a friend of mine started dating a guy who was funny, personable and driven (at least he seemed to be). He had big ideas and seemed like he was going to be determined to see them to fruition. When they first hooked up, he had no steady job. Still, my friend […]
Sometimes, it is too late to follow your dreams, but it is never too late to make the best out of your reality.
Are you running toward or walking away from your goals?