Beating the dream-busters: don't let loved ones keep you from living your dream.Our long-cherished dreams are certainly worth their weight in gold, but when friends and family members decide to add their two cents, the price of pursuing our dreams can suddenly seem too high to pay. While our spouse, parents, relatives, and best friends may be capable of encouraging us with our dreams, they are also the ones capable of discouraging dis·cour·age tr.v. dis·cour·aged, dis·cour·ag·ing, dis·cour·ag·es 1. To deprive of confidence, hope, or spirit. 2. To hamper by discouraging; deter. 3. us. Timberly Whitfield has always wanted to be a broadcast journalist. Even when she was working behind the camera at A&E, she decided to leave her job in pursuit of her dream. Immediately, close friends and family members were telling her she was "silly" to leave her "cushy cush·y adj. cush·i·er, cush·i·est Informal Making few demands; comfortable: a cushy job. [Origin unknown. job" of seven-and-a-half years to venture into the unknown. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Debrena Jackson Gandy, author and motivational speaker A motivational speaker is a professional speaker, facilitator or trainer who speaks to audiences, usually for a fee. The keynote speech generally takes place either at the beginning of the event, or the close of the event. , Whitfield had the right attitude despite being surrounded by naysayers. "Our words can part the Red Sea of our reality and make room for action to follow," explains Gandy. She suggests that when people in our lives are unsupportive or extremely critical, we should try the following tips: * Listen to what they have to say, but have your own plan. Block out the criticism that trips us up, even when it comes from our friends and family members. Gandy suggests that when loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl offer well-meaning but discouraging advice, you listen to their comments but simply reply: "I'll take your suggestion under advisement Deliberation; consultation. A court takes a case under advisement after it has heard the arguments made by the counsel of opposing sides in the lawsuit but before it renders its decision. ADVISEMENT. ." * Keep your cherished dreams safe. "You want to protect your dreams like a baby," says Gandy. "To do that, you don't expose the baby to those who have arrows in the first place." You should carefully pick and choose who you decide to share your dreams with. Don't share them with people who may not even have their own lives together. * Keep your inner resources strong. After reading The Game of Life and How to Play It, by Florence Scovel Shinn (The C.W. Daniel Co. Ltd.; $9.99), Whitfield began changing her perception. She stopped saying things like: "This is a tough nut to crack," "There aren't a lot of jobs out there," or "I'm black and a woman, too." Start thinking in terms of "Yes, I will get this job" and "Yes, I will succeed at this." "Daily prayer and meditation meditation, religious discipline in which the mind is focused on a single point of reference. It may be a means of invoking divine grace, as in the contemplation by Christian mystics of a spiritual theme, question, or problem; or it may be a means of attaining can better help us to follow our own North Star," says Gandy. * Talk to people who are doing what you want to do. By reaching out to people who are in the industry of our dreams, we help create a visual representation, like a "dream map" that helps us to move toward our dream and goal. Today, Whitfield is the host of New Morning, a program airing on the Hallmark hallmark, mark impressed on silverwork or goldwork to signify official approval of the standard of purity of the metal, also called plate mark. The hallmark was introduced by statute in England in 1300 and enforced by the Goldsmiths' Hall, London. Channel. It's an award-winning, daily, spiritual program about ordinary people making a difference in the world. |
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