Do you have a dream? Do you dare to believe your dream
will come through?
What stands between you and your dreams right now – and
yes, you do have dreams inside you that you may not even be aware of! – is
simply BELIEF.
There is always something that you believe in. There’s no
right or wrong, it’s just your belief. However, what you must realize is that what
you choose to believe in is what you are going to live your life focusing on. A
simple example is, if you believe in goodness, you will always see good in
others and live to do good. The contrary is also true. What you focus on is
what you will get. If you believe that you have enough then you are likely not
to go out for more.
Belief is very powerful. Belief is both a MENTAL and EMOTIONAL
expression of the self. Belief can literally
move mountains. I have seen this with my own eyes. There was a man, he bought a
piece of land which nobody wanted because it was deep and you can’t build
houses there. At the same time he bought a mountain, and no house could be
built up there because it was rugged and steep. What this man believed was he
can move the mountain into the valley, fill it
up, and lo and behold, he got himself a piece of wonderful flat land,
where today, it is one of the most expensive residential areas in Malaysia.
It cannot be belief if any one of the two elements is
absent. Belief must be a combination of both the mind and the heart. What this
man had was that he had a congruence of his mind and heart, and his belief was
he can make something inhabitable into
something that is habitable and highly valued.
Man speaks of strong belief or lack of belief. What does
that mean? Strong belief would mean both your mind and emotion is involved.
This will always give rise to deep passion. It is this passion from where dreams
can spring forth and goals can be fulfilled. When a man lack belief, it means
either his or her mind or heart is not convinced. Therefore, nothing he or she
desires will happen. No belief means both the mind and heart are not convinced.
A great thing about belief is the more you believe the
more you will see. The contradicting statement that is spoken by most mediocre
people is “I will have to see first to believe”. Great people always believe
first and they will see.
Your desire comes from your heart, and when your heart’s
desire is manifested in your mind, and when both become stronger and stronger, your
body actions follow and will put into reality what was conceived in the mind
and desired by the heart.
Throughout history, you have read about what great men and
women had achieved, because they had strong convictions and belief and passion.
They overcame what the weak dare not. Their names are written in history. Today
and in the future, many more great men and women will emerge victors because of
their courage, their belief and passion.
Well, not all of us will make history, but indeed as
Robert F Kennedy, noted, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself,
but each of us can work to change a small portion of events… it is from
numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”
What has happened to most people today is that their
belief is not about success, neither is it about failure. Instead what they
believe is that success is like a shadow, always tailing them around but they
can’t seem to grasp at it. That’s the problem, their beliefs are not quite focused on what they want but rather on what they don’t want, that’s the shadow.
A lot of it has to do with years of negative conditioning
from your environment – starting with your parents, your teachers, your peers,
your friends, your spouse, society, what you see on the silver screen and television,
you are now deeply entrenched in certain beliefs or concepts that may be stopping you from
reaching out for your dreams, or even realizing you have them. These beliefs
may have been put there to “protect” you from harm, to “protect” you from
disappointment but what they have done instead is to rob you of a truly
enriched LIFE.
It may have started with what you chose to study in
university or college. I was a top student in school, with a string of
straight A’s but I had no clue what I wanted to pursue as a career. I knew I didn’t want to be a doctor as the sight of blood terrifies me. I thought I might like to be a lawyer, but my father told me, “Young ladies
shouldn’t be lawyers. They are liars and crooks.” So I left that idea behind,
and wandered into a bachelor of science degree. Along the way, she took a major
in English and discovered she loved languages.
However,
when I graduated, again beliefs entrenched in me led me to choose a career
in banking – a very “safe and “secure” career in those days. Very boring as
well, I found to my dismay, as I felt like a round peg trying to get into
a square hole! I developed all kinds of illnesses – severe migraine, gastric
pains, insomnia, depression… you name it!
Finally,
after three years of physical and mental suffering, I made the wisest
decision in my life. I decided to throw off the shackles and start pursuing my dreams. I knew I loved to write but had no formal training except for a major in English. Nevertheless, I gave up my job at the bank, and
started a publishing company with a supportive brother, almost from scratch. I had no experience, but that wasn’t going to stop me. Eventually, with just
a good idea, and together with a group of people who did have the necessary
experience, I started a business magazine for women called Woman At Work.
So what
is holding you back? The belief that you are not good enough? Or that you don’t
have what it takes to be a success in whatever it is you would love to do? Or that
you don’t deserve to be successful? These are issues you have to settle in your
own mind before you can embark on the journey to discover your dreams.
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