What Enemies are Stopping you From Achieving your Dreams?
What are the things that are most important to you? What is it that you would really like to be doing with the rest of your life?
Most often, when you honestly answer these questions it leads to doing something different than what you are currently doing, to make a positive change in the world. For instance, it might mean a change of occupation, or getting that university degree that was set aside so long ago, or developing a skill.
The changes in the world could be something like starting a new company, or doing something transforming in your family, helping someone down the street, starting a new humanitarian organization, or working on some needed change in your church or at a political level. It could be doing something positive to help the environment. The things people carry as important are diverse, and if everyone followed that internal call (their ‘vision-quest’) the world would be a much better place.
So, let’s say you have dug deep into your soul and found that important thing. Yet it sits there. It leads to the question, what’s stopping you? I like to put it this way:
What enemies are stopping you?
I put the question in this form because I like to think of your journey to achieve your vision-quest as a narrative and the while the concept is very simple, there are some dynamics you will need to keep in mind. If you understand the key components of narrative, it helps you to know what you will be encountering. There are outlined in my book, Bring Your Vision to Life, but in this article let me talk about one of the dynamics, your enemies.
First, let me say that your journey of bringing your vision to life is an