Jun 02 2009
I can encourage you to better your life, only you can actually take the steps to change it!
“I can only show you the door.
You’re the one who has to walk through it.”
The Matrix’s Morpheous
There are so many different quotes like this one, but this is the one that I have heard used least so I thought I would remind everyone of it! To some people this doesn’t really explain very much, but to me it says a world of things!
You can lead a man to water, but you can’t make him drink. You can buy a man a fish he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish he’ll eat for a lifetime. Those are all a bit more self explanatory than my quote choice for today. When I hear this quote it really reminds me of any sort of advisor, the ones you had in high school or college, the one you have for your finances now.
You go in and tell them what your goals are, and then they tell you what they think are the best steps to take to get that common goal you discussed. Sometimes they will encourage you to go down a very specific path, or sometimes they will even encourage you to alter your goals slightly for an end result that they think will better suit you and your situation. They never can make you do what they advise you to do though. They show you the doorway to get to that goal you said you had, but that’s it, you must be the one who walks through it and follows that hallway until you get to the end goal you wanted.
I am not sure how this will fit into everyone’s life out there, but I do know that it will fit into everyone’s life. Maybe you’re a parent whose child is just not following through with a plan that she said she was going to do. Maybe you’re a boss whose employee just always takes the easy way out and does not push through to move up in the company even though you know they could be great. Maybe you say you want to go to back to school but there is always something before it on the to-do list of your life. Do you want to change careers but just keep talking about it and never finding out how to do it? Are you the one that knows you could be an amazing entrepreneur but you are not doing it because stepping through that door seems so scary?
Well what do you have to loose? What makes standing outside of that door looking through it at what you could have better than walking through it and possibly making all of your dreams come true?
One thing that I do have to say is that you are the one who is going to walk through that door. Don’t let others hold you outside of the door because they feel threatened by the fact that you are chasing your dreams, bettering your life, and risking finding an amazing place at the end of that hallway after the door.
I can only encourage you with words, still only you can be the one who walks through that door! Good luck and may you find your inner strength and passion!
