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While inspirational and motivational quotes can certainly help people find strength to carry on or to persevere with their goals, sometimes, you do have to have a small reality check.
They say that if you can imagine or dream it, you can do it. However, no matter how vivid anyone’s imagination is, there is no way that you can go riding a winged unicorn through a field of rainbows in reality.
A friend of mine with a long-term medical condition can’t get over it, no matter how much he wants to do it.
A person suffering from AIDS might dream about a cure, but no matter how positively he or she thinks, the disease won’t go away (although thinking positively will help his or her immune system struggle on for a bit longer
– and there are doctors and scientists out there who are dreaming about finding a cure, so they should keep on dreaming and working for this).
And sometimes, no matter how hard we try, our goals can be stupidly unrealistic.
It’s important to have realistic goals to aim at. If you don’t, you could actually end up hurting yourself.
We see so many women who dreamed that it would be possible to have a great career, be a great mother and keep the house looking fantastic –
and look stunning and be great lovers. However, the reality is that you only have a certain amount of energy and time in the day, and no matter how much you dream about it and persevere, you aren’t going to be able to do it all.
And even if we’re trying our darnedest to reach for the stars and achieve everything you’ve dreamed of, other people have a tendency to get in the way:
someone else gets the job as manager that you were hoping for, children get sick and need you right when you had an important meeting coming up‌ and so on!
Sorry to sound like such a wet blanket, but if you have a dream of being perfect at everything and continually strive for this, you will end up wearing yourself out.
Continually trying to stay motivated and on top of absolutely everything leads to stress, and if you don’t cut yourself some slack and allow yourself to goof off,
relax and let the whole blooming lot go to blazes for half an hour a day (at least!) you will find yourself with anxiety problems, burnout and possibly depression.
So what’s to be done?
First of all, you need to step back and evaluate your dreams. As a host of other inspirational quotes will tell you, it’s important to focus on what’s really important to you.
And then you have to let some things slide. Perhaps you might decide that getting to the top of the corporate ladder isn’t as important to you as, say, having time in your day to learn how to paint or write a novel.
Perhaps having more time having fun with your children or your significant other is more important than having a spotless home.
Be realistic. Pobody’s nerfect, as a very old inspirational quote used to say.
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