Not Very Realistic

When I was 15 and dreamed of being a soap star on TV, my teachers said “That’s nice, but it’s not very realistic.”
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When I decided I wanted to move to LA with next to no money to get a manager in Hollywood, my partner said, “Come on, be realistic.”
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When I wanted to start my dream business, helping women become healthier, but doing it all via my laptop – so I wasn’t tied to one place in the world? – “Be realistic! You need a stable job!”
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Get a book deal with Hay House? Run a retreat in Bali? GET REAL- Who did I think I was? These things are SO unrealistic.
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Come to think about it, the amount of times I’ve had the words ‘be realistic’ said to me in my life is pretty laughable.
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Move my life to Bali without really knowing anyone there, buy the turquoise vespa from my vision board, and just DECIDE to live my dream life?
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I mean it doesn’t sound very realistic does it?
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Well SPOILER ALERT- I guess I went and did all of those things ANYWAY!
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I say this to encourage you to live the life that YOU want, not the life that others say is ‘realistic’.
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When someone says to you something isn’t realistic, do you ACTUALLY believe them?
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The first thing I think is “So clearly YOU need to open your mind some more then.
Clearly YOU need to break through the ceiling of your own limiting beliefs.”
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Because everything is realistic, if you make it so.
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What if we were only here for ONE life?
What if this was IT?
Ohhhh shit! I guess it is!
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Why are you creating vision boards, but then not ACTUALLY making any of it happen, because it feels too unrealistic?
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Are you REALLY gonna spend your whole life being realistic?
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If I’d have coloured in between the realistic lines, wowzer. I’d be stuck, stuck, stuck, wondering why I didn’t feel fulfilled or happy.

Mel
XO