What to Do When Someone Close Doesn’t Support Your Goals and Dreams
by www.Sedona.com
Going after your most coveted goals and dreams -- going back to school, starting your own business, adopting a child -- is challenging enough when you have love and support from your family and friends. But when someone close to you -- your spouse, best friend or even your boss -- belittles or discourages your dreams, it can easily make you second-guess yourself, and even give up on your dream entirely.
Yet, you deserve to go after every one of your goals and dreams, so how can you do so regardless of whether or not your loved ones support them?
On a practical level, you can look for outside support elsewhere. Finding a mentor or friend who is going after a similar dream, for instance, may bolster your courage and self-esteem to move forward.
Ultimately, though, you can find all the support you need much closer to home: inside yourself.
“The best way to react when someone doesn’t support your dreams is to welcome whatever reaction happens by itself,” says Hale Dwoskin, CEO and director of training of Sedona Training Associates.
This means that if you are feeling angry or doubting your ability to succeed, simply allow yourself to accept it and feel that way.
“If you try and not react you simply suppress your feelings and they go underground and fester, sabotaging both your relationships and your goals,” Dwoskin says. “By allowing yourself to welcome how you feel you can more easily let go and support yourself in your goals -- no matter how others react to them.”
Welcoming your feelings is the first step in The Sedona Method -- a simple tool for gaining lasting happiness, success, peace and emotional well-being. The next step is to let go of the negative feelings you just welcomed.
“Remember to let go of wanting others to approve of your goals and aspirations and instead take your own council or follow your own heart,” Dwoskin says. “Only by doing this will you be truly happy with your goals and you will also be much more likely to achieve them. If you are struggling with this, remember that too is just a feeling that you can release using The Sedona Method.”
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