If you think that you can’t do something, your thoughts will keep you from even trying and you will never know whether you could have done it or not.
If you think that merely thinking is the same as taking action, your dreams will remain dreams and you will spend your time imagining things that you may never bring about.
If you think that you don’t deserve a wonderful life complete with the positive rewards of success and achievement, you will feel too guilty to do the work to accomplish it.
If you think that you are required to attain perfection before implementation, you will endlessly justify inaction in the pursuit of the impossible.
If you think that you won’t be liked if your actions displease others, you will always wait for approval even though it might never come.
If you think that you are not really as talented or deserving as people believe you are, you will avoid taking action for fear of being discovered.
If you think you can rely on someone else to push you, pull you, guide you, direct you or encourage you to take action, you will be mistaken.
If you think that the future is something that happens to you instead of something you are able to create, you will have no reason to take action.
©2008 Kay Ballard
