On Wellness Wednesdays, I post about a wellness topic.
One of my all time favorite quotes is:
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
-Chinese Proverb
Photo Credit: Doree Weller
There are always naysayers, people who say that you can’t do something. People who try to tell you that you’re not enough to do that thing. Most of the difference between success and failure is willingness to keep trying. And in order to keep trying, you need to believe that it’s possible, whatever it is. People who are ultimately successful usually have a lot of “failures” behind them, but they generally rename “failure” to something else, like “learning experience” or “practice.”
If you want something… if you have a goal or dream… don’t let anything stop you. Not what people say, not your own internal voice telling you that you can’t. If you have a story to write, a song to sing, a picture to paint, do it. Do it without judgement, without restrictions.
I didn’t show my writing to anyone for a long time. In high school, I showed a poem to a teacher, and she said, “Are you sure you wrote that? I’m not saying you copied it; I’m just saying that maybe you saw it somewhere and forgot about it.” (For the record, no, that’s not the case.) I let her words deflate me, and I was afraid to show what I wrote to anyone, lest they be disinterested, or worse, believe I was plagiarizing. I let that stop me for about 10 years or more, until I started bringing my writing out into the light again.
I’m sure that teacher has long since forgotten her words, but I never have. I know that she didn’t mean to stop me from writing, but took her words and allowed them to wound me. Much of the time, when others inflict wounds on us, they don’t even know it.
Don’t let anyone stop you. Don’t give anyone that power. Do whatever it is that makes your heart sing.
Doree Weller 