Be Realistic!

“Is your sense of reality, both accurate and intelligent?”


Most people who say "Be realistic!" are living in fear!

Often because of past disappointments and their own perceived failures these people have become afraid of letting themselves down again. They have developed their limiting beliefs to protect themselves but it these same beliefs that cause them to hesitate and shy away from the risks they think exist and as a result prevent them from giving their all; consequently they get limited results. Their limiting beliefs become a self-fulfilling prophecy

Great leaders are rarely "realistic" by other people's standards. They are, however, accurate and intelligent. Mahatma Gandhi believed he could gain autonomy for India by peacefully and non-violently opposing Great Britain, something that had never been done before. He wasn't being realistic, but he certainly proved to be accurate.

Everyone who told Roger Bannister to be realistic, that no-one had ever run a mile in under four minutes and that no-one ever would, were proved by Roger to be unrealistic themselves on 6 May 1954 at Oxford when he completed the first sub four minute mile on the University’s Iffley Road Track.

Which so-called realistic beliefs should you shun? What exciting, new, unrealistic but entirely possible expectations are there, that can you should embrace? Please let me know if you'd like to explore the possibilities your life has yet to embrace! :-)

Andrew Smith
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