A foreign student attending college in America, asked his grandfather from Eastern Europe to come and visit him. When grandfather arrived, the two spent the next few days seeing the town and touring the campus. On the day before his grandfather was to leave, the student asked his grandfather to meet him at the cafeteria when he finished his morning classes.

The grandfather arrived a little early and sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order, but nobody did. Finally, a student with her tray of food sat down opposite him and they began to talk. She learned he was waiting for a server, so she informed him how the cafeteria worked.
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What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?

The biggest barrier to the achievement of our dreams is our own self-doubt — our insecurities. It’s our fears. It’s the way we project negatives into what’s coming. In many cases, we seek out our past failures and drag them into the present–and then toss them out into our unwritten future.

Most children are quite light-hearted and free. Our aunts and uncles, our mothers and fathers, and other people we listen to and believe, tell us we can do anything. In many aspects of our young lives we feel limitless. We take risks. We try new physical activities without worrying about how we look while we’re doing it. We draw pictures and appreciate our art just because it was fun and it filled a little bit of our time. We walked up to strangers, introduced ourselves, and immediately become friends. We just allowed ourselves to be the best that we could be, because our doubts didn’t overly inhibit us.
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Do you ever worry that things are just too tough? Ever feel overwhelmed, or that you’re carrying a heavy load? Do you ever wonder how you can handle the strong emotions that just erupt inside? Or have you ever done something that was stupid, or gotten yourself in a jam, and you just don’t know if you can handle what may come as a result of it? Take just a moment right now, and let’s look at a way that can help you manage the tough spots.

In 1895, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was dealing with the death of his best friend. While going through the process of handling the grief and loss of this life-long friend, Nietzsche made this statement, “If this doesn’t kill me, it shall surely make me stronger.“ On later reflection back into this great loss and how he handled it, he found he really did feel stronger and more able to cope with other tough situations that arose later in his life. This phrase has helped millions cope with tough times (me included.)
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Does it ever seem that things just get in your way? Do obstacles block the achievement of your goals? Is there something you dreamed of, but it eludes you, and stays just out of reach?

If you focus on what you desire, you work toward that goal, yet it doesn’t happen there could be many factors that block attainment. We will begin to explore one of those barriers. The key we’ll focus on that is central to attaining your desires, is clarity of what you want. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it. It all begins in your mind. And the receiving what you want is aided or inhibited by you.
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