People are far too dismissive of their own ambitions and desires.
Here is a truth: the best you are going to get is the best you can visualize. You won’t always get it! But you’ll never get better.
This means if you water down your own ideals, the best you can hope for is the watered-down version of your dream.
“Yeah, in a perfect world, I’d love to buy that cabin in the mountains, but…” Right there, in that statement, you killed that dream. Whatever comes after the “but” is what you’re going to get.
Dream of the perfect world! You won’t always get everything in it, but the dream is necessary to even attempt it. If you aren’t at least starting with your ideal visualization, no one else is going to come along and inflate it. Aim high – aim for the perfect world.
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