Has there ever been something in your life that has made you excited or given you this burning passion?
But you never followed it through or gave it a chance to see where it could lead you.
Unfortunately a lot of the time this happens because of our closest friends and families; the ones that have the most influence on us. They can defiantly steer our lives, both directly and indirectly, helping make decisions, making us feel good or bad about making our own decisions, by constantly surrounding us with negativity or positivity.
PARENTS want us to succeed, but often what success in their minds are, are different to our own opinions. So you shouldn’t let your parents stop you if you want to be a musician or a politician or a full time traveller. Because it is YOUR passion, YOUR dreams, YOUR Goals. Im not saying to not listen to their opinions, because they do have a few extra years of life experience on you. But to not just let them to persuade you to put your passion on the back burner, until you finish uni, until you buy a house, until you have a family or until your retired. Because if you constantly procrastinate on your passion, then when will you follow your dreams. There is never a better time then right NOW, to find your passion and give yourself to it 110%, because there are always excuses and reasons not to do something.
FRIENDS are our next major influence if not more so then our parents, they can bring you up and they can certainly bring you down, the old saying of ‘your 5 closest friends make you who you are’ is certainly true. If your around friends, that constantly drink, party and live a mediocre life, then the chances of you following suit is nearly guaranteed. But if your passion is to compete in the Olympics as a professional athlete, your not going to continue hanging around those friends. Your going to surround your self with like minded people, and successful people in your chosen sport, to help push, motivate and inspire you, to help make your goals a reality and live your passion everyday.
The last main influencer that prevents us from following our passion; is YOURSELF. Firstly we prevent ourselves by listening to our mediocre friends and family members, they get in our heads and help manifest self doubt, lack of motivation, and tell us that a 9-5 job 5 days a week, is what we are supposed to do, because thats what they do and thats what their parents did, so YOU must do it to. But we need to start surrounding ourselves with positivity, a mentor in your chosen path, friends that will be there to push you and help you as well. Because once you start doing this, you start believing in yourself, you push that self hate out, that you CAN’T do it and you start saying I CAN do this, I can be me. I WILL do this, I WILL be me and I WILL FOLLOW MY PASSION.