Unrealistic?

Have you ever had a great idea that got you all excited and buzzing? Then you took that idea and excitement and shared it with someone only to be told it will never work and you will never be able to do something like that! Sound familiar? You are not the only one. In the next blog post our guest blogger Tosin discusses this topic...

Unrealistic?

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” Albert Einstein

It is important that we don’t ever let anyone tell us what our reality should be.

I don’t like the word unrealistic – it makes me think of limiting possibilities to reach mediocrity. There are goals, ideas, visions and dreams that you will have that people around you will think are silly or unrealistic. And they will usually tell you this. Not because they’re being mean or are hating on you (although sometimes this is the case) but because that is their belief of what is and isn’t possible. It’s important to remember that everyone has their own reality and just because your dream or goal doesn’t exist in someone else’s, doesn’t mean it can’t in yours. DEFINE your reality. What is and isn’t possible to you?

WHAT EVER YOUR IDEAS OR DREAMS ARE, NO MATTER WHAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS SAID - IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE. IT IS NOT WACKY, OR STUPID, OR OVER-AMBITIOUS...

What kind of word is over-ambitious anyway? We live in a society were mediocrity is normal. And that’s just boring. Someone once told me that ‘the ability to expand or shrink our lives is determined by our courage’. We (and I say ‘we’ because I’m talking to myself also!) should build up courage enough to step out and do things that society think is bizarre.

IT IS NOT BIZZARE - even though people may say it is...

Apparently it was a ‘wacky’ idea that a black man could be the president of a country that his ancestors were enslaved in. But two words... BARACK OBAMA. I was talking to my Dad about this – and even he said that he didn’t believe it was possible before it happened.

Whatever it is, it may be something small or big – and we all have small and big goals – we should chase after them regardless of another person trying to drag you back down to mediocrity.

[LOL “drag you back down” sounds a bit violent – seriously though...]

Furthermore, if you don’t take your ideas, goals and dreams seriously...who will? The idea of a laptop was dismissed as stupid, wacky, never going to sell, too ambitious even. The inventor of the first Apple Laptop Steve Wozniak is now worth billions!

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE, TO EVERY DESTINATION THERE IS A PATH.

It may be a lonely path. The path of no-one-believes-in-my-dream-no-one-is-supporting-no-one-thinks-I-will-achieve-this but nonetheless walk down it.

Learn lessons and get experience and achieve along the way.

We can do this!

IT IS DO-ABLE.

THERE IS A PATH TO EVERY DESTINATION.

BE BRAVE AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, AND YOUR IDEA.

EVEN WHEN THE EXCITEMENT AND THE INITIAL NEWNESS OF YOUR IDEA FADES, BELIEVE IN IT AND FOLLOW THROUGH.

YOU CAN MAKE THE ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ POSSIBLE.

Just like Obama, Thomas Edison, Rosa Parks, Diane Abbott, Roger Bannister - the list is endless. These were normal people, living normal lives but they believed in their dreams – even when no one else did – and that’s why they are great achievers.

So, on that (rather serious) note, I will leave you with a quote from Roger Bannister:

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that. The human spirit is indomitable”

Have a great day!

Much Love

Tosin