6 Reminders When Your Dreams Are Taking Forever To Reach

1. If you give up on yourself then there’s zero chance you’re going to succeed. However, if you keep going, if you keep putting in the work and trying your hardest, then there is a chance you could reach your dreams. There’s a chance you could end up with everything you’ve ever wanted. Since you love what you’re doing anyway, there’s no reason to quit in the middle of the race. Giving up guarantees that you’re never going to reach your destination. Trying means that you have a real shot at reaching the finish line.

2. “Your reaction to the test is part of the test.” This quote from Delilah S. Dawson rings true, regardless of what you’re trying to achieve. You’re not going to reach success overnight. You’re going to have to work for it. That means you’re going to have to remain patient. The road ahead of you isn’t going to be smooth from start to finish. There are going to be speedbumps along the way, but the way you handle the issues that arise will determine how successful you’ll be in the future.

3. You’re closer to your dreams today than you were yesterday. You might feel like you aren’t making any progress because you haven’t gotten the results you want yet, but take a look at how far you’ve come. You’re not the same person as you were weeks, months, or years ago. You’ve grown. You’ve learned. You’re inching closer and closer to your destination, even if you don’t realize it. You might have a long way to go, but you don’t want to give up when you’ve already come so far.

4. Your dreams are dreams for a reason. You want this. You need this. So why would quitting be an option in your mind? If you want something badly enough, if it’s the only thing that will make you happy, then you should keep going. Ignore the people who are instilling doubts in your mind. Ignore the pessimistic voice in the back of your head, trying to convince you to give up. Remember, you’re not foolish for trying. You’re incredibly brave.

5. Comparing your journey to somebody else is only a waste of time. Maybe you feel like you’re behind. Maybe you feel like you should have achieved more by now. It’s only human nature to compare yourself to those around you, but remember that timelines are imaginary. There isn’t a certain age when you’re supposed to reach success. It can happen at any point in time. It might happen for others earlier or might happen for you later but it doesn’t say anything about your worth. You’re simply on different paths than the people around you.

6. You should never feel silly for following your dreams. Don’t give up because you’re worried you’re wasting your time. Don’t give up because you’re scared of failure. Only give up if the journey is no longer bringing you happiness. Otherwise, you can rest assured that you’re doing the right thing. You’re following your heart. You’re taking a chance on yourself. You’re choosing to keep moving forward, even when it’s hard, even when it’s inconvenient, even when someone else in your shoes might simply give up.

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Cast Your Circle, Wild Woman

Cast your circle, wild woman, and look me in the eye. When you are in the middle of expansion, you are in the midst of death. At times, offering your soul-truth-art-expression in this world can feel frightening. The movement forward ever more deeply into the deeper layers of our soul-truth-art-world will not only continue to shake you up, but others as well. The world is working toward letting this light in, as you are.

The expansion of your soul is the death of something somewhere in the universe. It is the death of chance, choice, encounters, and experiences that never come to be.

Expansion is the undertaking of your soul for full sensual embodiment. It is not a striving-or-arriving, it is simply the embrace of the full-forced grace that prevails each moment. Close your eyes, sweet child. Do you hear that, the world around you, that world inside you? Do you hear? Not just with your sensuous being, but hearing with your soul. Do you hear the world rippling forward inside you, and you in the world?

There is no buffer, no in-between space.

Humans have strived to create the buffer, to segment, to seperate, to dismantle and disengage. Things, people, and even the planet are caged up, a thing to be owned—or not, kicked out and cast into the past so readily. The woman of the now, the priestess, the hag, the crone or wild woman that is yearning to shake you—wake you—with her intuitive insights, her babbling bullshit, and murky-golden-mucky past, parachuting down from a dream-like-world. Darling, these things, those things, that you’ve kept creeping at the back of your mind won’t harm you, they will wake you. Life is not a business, life is a sensuous encounter of the soul. The soul of your sensuality is not terrifying. It is, however:

Fluid

Dynamic

Wild

Free

Incomparable

Incomprehensible

Awe-inspiring

Cast your circle and look me in the eye. When you do, whisper these words, “I am fluid, I am dynamic, I am wild, I am free, I am incomparable, I am incomprehensible, I am awe inspiring.”

Be easy on yourself, sweet one—you are in the midst of expansion, and with expansion comes death.

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For Everyone Who Has Ever Felt They Were Too Much

Have you ever felt like you were too much?

Today I sat down to journal, and the prompt was about the first time in my life where I didn’t feel like enough. And what came to me immediately was the feeling of being too much. Too emotional. Too vulnerable. Too honest. Too imaginative.

I thought of all the times I held myself back, settled for less, and conceded prematurely because I was self-conscious about, well, everything. And I thought about how that fear of being too much kept me from recognizing that my too-much-ness was actually part of my purpose.

Over time, I realized there’s no such thing as being too much, and that I had to look to the people and the spaces that didn’t just accept me or make room for me but loved me wholly.

I realized that I do not need to make myself small to fit in, because that means those spaces were not big enough for me.

I realized that I do not need to settle or lower my expectations for love, because real love will exceed even my wildest dreams.

I realized that I do not need to change who I am to connect with others, because the right connections will be their whole selves too.

I realized that I do not need to worry if my story fits in with the rest of the world, because I am the author of my own life.

I realized that I do not need to stay on a predetermined path, because my path is a mix of side streets and dirt roads that lead who knows where.

I realized that I do not need to apologize for my bursting heart, because it is my heart that makes me all that I am and all that I am to become.

I realized that I do not need to tame my desires or dull my goals, because it’s thanks to my big dreams that I’ve been able to make big moves.

I realized that I am neither too much nor enough. I am exactly as I am meant to be, and I want you to know that if you’ve ever felt like too much, you are allowed to expect more of the world to meet you at your level of enoughness.

You are worthy of that, love.

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Why Education Should Be a Lifelong Process

Many of us consider the end of our formal schooling to be the end of our education. We leave school, begin our professional careers, and shift our focus away from learning.

But growth is a lifelong process, not limited to formal education. Our wisdom accumulates indirectly through life experience.

The development of our wisdom can be expedited and expanded by concomitant gains in knowledge. We can make more of what we know, and better understand our experiences.

If we wish to truly make the most of ourselves and maximize our potential, we should view learning as a lifelong process. It doesn’t matter whether that process is directed by an institution or by oneself.

Material Limitations

There are inevitable reasons why formal schooling comes to an end.

For many, setting entire years aside to learn full-time only makes sense when they are young and at the beginning of their careers. Changing course is expensive and time-intensive; not all of us have the luxury of starting a new career later in life.

So, as our educational commitments draw near their end, we have to decide whether to renew them. Our decision can only be made in light of our current resources and circumstances, which themselves may be abundant and permissive or scarce and restrictive. There is always a question of return-on-investment to be considered.

Many people may need more time and experience to learn about themselves by the time they are forced to make a decision about their future. If they proceed, they risk their time and money on an education that may turn out to be of limited use or interest.

The level of risk depends on the resources and support available to the individual in question. If their financial resources are scarce, it may not make sense to risk these resources on an opulent education.

Those who do take the risk are highly incentivized not to change their program. If they do, their progress will be lost, their time and money wasted. 

These individuals may be forced to continue on their trajectory towards a certain career path, even if they’ve long since realized that this path is of limited relevance to them. People change, and youth is a dangerous time to be making lifelong decisions.

Because of the cost and risk of formal education, there is a realistic limit on the amount of formal education that each of us can viably pursue.

Apples to Oranges

The inevitable end of our formal education, however, needn’t spell the end of our informal education. We have the good fortune of living in an age when literacy is widespread, and educational resources are broadly disseminated. We even have our choice of medium. Self-education, therefore, is flexible.

Contrast this with formal education. Formal education is generally meant to lead towards acquisition of a credential; however, it is not certain that the knowledge developed in pursuit of said credential will actually lead to any personal growth, or the development of true wisdom. 

This is a consequence of the inflexibility of formal education. Those who seek a credential are required to follow the strict dictates of their program. They are required to take particular courses at a particular time. 

When we self-educate, on the other hand, we set the structure. Since we are allowed complete freedom over the content and timing of our education, we can be assured of its value.

Its value, however, does not come in the form of a credential, so self-education cannot improve our earning potential in any direct way.

Instead, its value is in its enhancement of our wisdom. At any given stage in our lives, we gravitate towards that which complements the stage in question. We will naturally seek out information that satisfies our needs, curiosities, and questions. 

In educating ourselves, therefore, we take an active role in developing the wisdom that we need to overcome our adversities, rather than passively waiting for life experience to teach us (often painful) lessons.

A Rewarding Challenge

Self-education demands little or no financial investment. Where it demands our time, it does so with total flexibility, and where it demands our interest, it allows us to choose its subject matter. 

The only barrier to self-education is motivation. Formal education offers us the structure of deadlines and the support of a community. Self-education does not.

Overcoming this barrier requires us to consider the value of our education, as well as the value of ourselves. This is why self-respect is so valuable: if we don’t consider ourselves a worthwhile investment, we won’t bother investing in ourselves.

Those of us who wish to make the most of our lives must take their education into their own hands. We must become the architects of our own support systems and incentives.

In doing so, we become the architects of our own minds, and the authors of our own life stories.

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