Is there something that you would like to pursue, but you feel that you do not have the qualifications? Is there something that you are passionate about, but someone is telling you that you will never be good at it? Do you still have the voices of your early caretakers in your ears telling you that you will never amount to anything? If you have any of those self-defeating thoughts about yourself in your head, then think about this.
Unless your early caretakers could foresee the future, then they have no way of knowing how your life will turn unless you agree with them.
Then you won't amount to anything.
However, while you have nothing to prove to anyone, I'm sure you want to pursue your dreams and goals.
If you are unsure about starting your own business or following your passions, you will need some motivation to help you get started.
One of the reasons many individuals do not pursue their dreams is that they feel that they do not have any experience, they do not have the right qualifications, the right degrees behind their name so they do not have what it takes to run that business, take that job or work on that project.
You may feel that you are one of those individuals.
You may think that someone else would be better for that position than you are, so you end up talking yourself out of the career or business of your dreams.
What you do not realize is that all the experience you have amassed over the years, the skills that you learned along the way, the nuggets of wisdoms that you have picked up along the way are transferable.
You can go back in your life and pick out the experiences that you can bring to the table for whatever new business, new career or new passions that you want to pursue.
Do not believe that someone is better than you are and you are nothing so you shouldn't even bother to pursue your passions.
All your life needs for it to move forward is the confidence to say yes to your dreams and to know that you are worth it.
The renowned Motivational Speaker Les Brown once had to go and interview for a job position.
When he got to the interview, there were other young men who had numerous degrees behind their name, were well dressed in $300 business suits and held fancy portfolios in their hands.
Mr.
Brown did not have all those qualifications behind his name, however, what he did have was a mortgage to pay, a sick mother to take care of and children's mouth to feed and a dream of becoming more for his life.
He did not want that job he needed that job.
Armed with that knowledge he went into the interview and he laid out all his qualifications that he had amassed over the years.
He got the job.
It took confidence.
In order to pursue your passions, you need to have a strong confidence in yourself and towards your dreams.
If someone seems to have more qualifications than you do, just like you, they still need confidence to go after their dreams.
Having confidence is the difference between your business taking off and eventually succeeding.
If you do not have the confidence to pursue your dreams and your passions, you will never know if you can succeed.
Begin by saying YES to your dreams.
Trust in all the experiences that you have amassed over the years, pick out the computer skills that you have acquired, look back at all the people that you have helped in their life, things that you have written and received good feedback on, those are all your qualifications.
Yes, you are qualified to do what you do.
Depending on what you would like to pursue, you may need additional licensing and certifications.
But do not let that prevent you from starting.
Your success is dependent on the art of the start.
You need to start from somewhere in your life before your dreams can ever come to fruition.
Build up yourself and your business so that you can eventually pay for licensing and certifications.
You may need to work a regular job for a while until you can pay off your bills while pursuing your dreams and your passions on the side.
You will also be able to save money to further your education if a degree is needed for you to operate your business.
Saying yes to your dreams can prove to be very scary, especially if your dreams were severely put down by others.
You may have taken on their negativity and start believing in their put-downs and now you are scared of making a move towards your passions.
You are afraid of what they are going to say or do next.
People will always have something negative to say about you and none of it will have anything to do with you.
You are making the move towards actualizing your dreams.
Do not hold yourself back from living your dreams and passionately pursuing your passions.
Saying yes to your dreams will open the floodgates of The Universe and things will start coming together to help you define your dreams even more.
Thinking about pursuing your passions is not enough to get your business started.
You have to confidently believe in your drams and in your passions.
If you do not confidently believe in your qualifications, confidently believe in what you are doing, you will not be able to move yourself out of the square one position of confusion and self-doubt.
You will keep holding yourself back out of fear.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
When you can confidently say a resounding YES to your dreams and your passions, your life will begin to move in that direction.
Soon you will be overflowing with your passionate life that you now have to hire more people to help you run your business.
Sounds good, doesn't it? Are you ready to confidently say YES to your dreams? ###