If you were sick, would you do what you must to get well?
Would you take your medicine? Would you elect to have the surgery?
Would you work to learn more about your illness, its causes, and its treatment? Armed with such information, would you follow a good doctor’s orders?
Would you get the support you need?
I hope you said yes. I hope you think you’re worth such efforts, because you are.
But what about your dream? Do you think it’s worth it too?
If you find your dream is ailing, will you do what you must to nurse it back to health?
Will you take your time? Time is like medicine for dreams. You have to take as much as you need in the proper doses and according to a proper schedule. Those who want you to rush might be errantly persuading you to do something equivalent to taking your pills all at once or not at all.
Will you work to learn more about your dream, its requirements, and its methods? Information empowers you. Just as it can help you find the best way to treat an illness, it can also help you choose the best approach to making your dream a reality. You don’t want to get bogged down in endless research, but you’ll do yourself a favor if you learn something about what you’re facing.
Armed with such information, will you seek and follow good advice? Are you willing to be humble and admit you don’t know everything there is to know and allow those who’ve done what you hope to do to teach you a thing or two? Doctors study for many years for a reason: to prepare themselves to give you the best care they can. Those who have pursued and achieved dreams similar to yours, have achieved them for a reason. You don’t have to follow their every move, but you should at least be willing to hear what they have to say.
Will you get the support you need? Will you ask for help? Will you talk to people, share your hopes and fears, and allow them to spur you on? Facing an illness on your own can be lonely, depressing, and debilitating. Pursuing a dream on your own can be the exact same thing.
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