DON’T GIVE UP AND DARE TO SUCCEED
We all want to reach our goals and manifest our dreams, yet some people reach them and some people don’t. Why is that? Why aren’t we all what we want to be? Well, we all have a list of excuses and use them as reasons why we are not successful or living our dream. Negative self-talk can translate into excuses to why we are not living up to our full potential. Go through your list of self-defeating excuses why you are not meeting your goals, and see if you can really pull out what you call reasons. The reason I cannot manifest my dream is because “I don’t have the education”, or “I’m bald”, or “I am too old”. Do you see that these are excuses and not reasons? The truth of the matter, to dream, to set goals of success is fearful. What if we don’t make it? What if we fail? We will be embarrassed! Fear is what stops us all!
Don’t give up and dare yourself to succeed. You can have anything you want if you don’t give up, no matter what. Tell yourself what you want and direct your conscious mind to reach for it. Once you do that, the subconscious mind will take over and figure out the details.
There was a man who was born in 1809, in a log cabin in Illinois. His parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished families. When he was 7 years old, his family moved to Indiana, where both his younger brother and his mother died shortly thereafter. Several years later, his older sister died in childbirth. He moved back to Illinois in 1830 and worked several jobs, including surveying, serving as a postmaster, became a partner and clerk in a store, and made an unsuccessful run for the Illinois legislature in 1832.
The store that he worked in went out of business and he purchased another store with his partner, which ultimately failed, leaving him badly in debt. Two years later, his former partner died, increasing his debt and that very same year, the lady that he loved died from fever.
Lincoln married in 1842, had 4 children, of which only one reached adulthood. He had many unsuccessful political attempts before he was ultimately elected as the 16th U.S. President.
After Lincoln’s election, many Southern states, fearing Republican control in the government, seceded from the Union. Lincoln faced the greatest internal crisis of any U.S. President. After the fall of Ft. Sumter, Lincoln raised an army and decided to fight to save the Union from falling apart. Initially Lincoln anticipated a short conflict; he called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for 3 months. Despite enormous pressures, loss of life, battle field setback, generals who weren’t ready to fight, assassination threats, etc., Lincoln stuck with this pro-Union policy for 4 long years of civil war. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Policy went into effect, which declared freedom for all slaves in the area of Confederacy not under Union control. Lincoln never gave up!
Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States. He is also remembered for his character, as a man of humble origins whose determination and perseverance led him to the nation’s highest office.
Don’t give up, no matter what – and dare to succeed.
