Negative FM’s & Delayed Dreams
View(s):After a disastrous first inning, I started the second inning of my life at the age of thirty. All I had in hand was a tattered twenty rupee note in my ragged blue jeans. Just like everybody else I dreamt of a beautiful life. Yet, a horrible voice from deep within me kept condemning me that it was too late to start life and that my efforts would not amount to much. Apart from that horrendous internal voice, the external world condemned me immensely too. For some of them I was a joke. They laughed at my dreams. They made fun of my dreams. They thought I was out of my mind and that my dreams were unrealistic for a man who is attempting to start life all over again at the age of 30. Some went on to say that I do not even have a cent to scratch my back yet I dream of living in a big mansion. To be honest, there were times I was disturbed by these internal and external voices. There were times I cried. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a man crying, even the most powerful king may have cried at least once in life as that is the nature of human creation. One would not enjoy laughter unless they have experienced pain.
There were times I lay the sword on the ground for a moment in order to refuel my passion. Yet, I picked up the sword again and kept on battling life even though the internal and external voices were against me. Above all these negative channels I had a strong belief in my destiny. I decided that I would never allow these negative channels to restrict my dreams. I locked the gates of my mind and considered them as stray dogs that bark at people from outside the gate with no permission to come into my garden for life.
By then I had realised that these external people are not my enemies but the fire that keeps me burning so that I may shine brighter. I continued running the good race and not giving up on my dreams amidst the roaring negative channels. Whilst the stray dogs were barking from outside of the gates I continued to cultivate in my garden of life by studying hard, working with sheer commitment, investing every minute productively, securing my brain – mind and body. I was rewriting the best chapters of my life book whilst others were so occupied criticising me. The negativity of the inner voice as well as the jealousy of the external voices saw only the chapters of the first half of my life which were bad and miserable. They did not understand that I was writing some amazingly victorious chapters in the second half of the book of my life.
Are you allowing the negative voices to write the chapters of your life? The only one who could stop you from achieving your dream is you. Many people have delayed their dreams merely by allowing negative channels to take control of their journey. Do not allow the negative words passed on by the wicket keeper to distract the focus you have on the bowler. Rather focus on the bowler. The moment you get distracted by the words of the wicket keeper you might be bowled out as you could not focus on the bowler. You could certainly make a difference in your generation if you simply shut down the negative channels around you.
The remote control, which is your brain, is in your hands. Just as you shut down the radio channels, why not shut and reject the negative people as well as the negative thoughts that arose in you. They may even be your close relatives, yet, if they are consuming your dreams and causing them to delay, shut the gates of your mind for them. Let them say you are mean. That is absolutely alright. It is time to thicken the skin around our own brain, so that we remain strong and focus on our dreams. It is essential to realise that the purpose of these negative channels are to distract you from your true potential and limit you to an average life. Especially, the jealous people around you will be happy as long as you live a life par beyond theirs. If you are below them, they will even help you. Yet, the moment they realise you are leveraging them, they will begin to talk bad about you, mischaracterise you and pull you from your leg.
They are not against You, they are against Your Dreams as they are working hard to feed their ego. Many people have lost the meaning of life, as they are fighting a battle of feeding their ego. Ego is lifeless, it is a feeling that makes you a prisoner of your own life. Therefore, ignore those channels. Change it just as you would change the FM channels that you do not listen to.
Get into an agreement with your dreams the same moment that you disagree with the negative voices. Unless, these negative voices are sure to delay your dreams and even it may knock you down until you mentally retire and give up on all your beautiful dreams. Today, I even have the ability to hire those people who tried to distract me from my dreams. It is so sad to see some of them doing odd jobs whilst I am living in a mansion with a beautiful queen and an adorable prince and princess. They could not cultivate in their own garden of life as they were too busy trying to uproot the trees that were growing in my garden. They were unable to do it as my garden was tightly fenced and the plants in my garden were thoroughly protected and nourished.
Today, I have many big trees that bear fruits as a CEO, Life Coach, Business Consultant, Author, Lecturer and Mental Health Coach.
I urge every one of you to spend at least one good hour in understanding the weed around you. The weed you may come across at the office, in the street, in your family, in your circle of friends and in social media networks, take a bold decision to uproot them completely. Unless, they will devour your dreams. “Negative Strainer” is another tool I have introduced in my mental health clinic. I am so thrilled to see negative people walking away from my life as I simply do not want them to cause any delay in my dreams. I am so occupied with giving the best to my generation, country and the world. Decide not to invest your resources such as time, energy and peace on tuning into negative FM Channels.
When the most famous Walt Disney attempted to do a job at his young age, he was told that he lacked creativity. He switched off those negative channels and kept on believing that he is creative and went on to become the man who revolutionised the animated cartoon industry. What if he had listened to them and unplugged his dreams? Then, there would not have been a Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck who were loved by the entire world. Dreams are exactly like plants and if you groom them with utmost attention they will grow, but if they are neglected they will perish.
Therefore, keep fueling your dreams. Do not think that one motivating article of mine is sufficient to attain it. If you take today’s context into consideration the amount of negative waves are higher than the amount of positive waves. We must be vigilant on guarding our minds, if not those negative voices will inculcate deep roots in our subconscious mind, creating negative thought circuits.
You will indeed be very heart broken if you pull out some of your old diaries just to find out that most of your dreams are buried in those diaries. Do not allow a few attempts of failures lead your subconscious to throw depressing thoughts that this is not your thing. Then, you give up one dream and start dreaming of another. When you fail to attain it, then, you will give up on that and try another one. When you look back, all you have collected is a bag full of abandoned dreams.
I invite you to pull out that bag once again, dust it out, brush it sensitively, repaint it with passion and fuel it up with unwavering commitment until you reach your goal. At the age of thirty (30) my mind kept telling me that my brain is damaged due to the excessive use of heroin. Yet, I went on to become the best Sri Lankan student in CIM – UK in the most difficult final stage. Today, I am a role model to the world. I was protecting what I believed. Therefore, do not let the negative channels steal your dreams.
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