365QOD-Day41

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us."  Marianne Williamson

I just got through reading a wonderful book called The Leap- How 3 Simple Changes can Propel Your Career from Good to Great by Rick Smith. There are a few passages that I would like to share with you in this blog.

Our brains have two facets: a part that is ready to leap towards new opportunity and a second one that is survival driven that pulls us back.

"Encouraged by our huge frontal lobe, we envision big things to come, but when push comes to shove, our older brain fights like mad to defend the current state of our lives.  We court risk in our imagination, then run from it in our daily lives.  We are almost compelled to plot out alternative story lines for our lives and careers and families, but we are compelled even more powerfully to avoid what we imagine.  That's the great irony of humankind: we are at once the animal capable of dreaming and the one that holds itself back from achieving its dreams."

So the conflict in our brain is that we want to dream big BUT we often pull ourselves back to reality.  However, as Nelson Mandela put it,"We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?"

Today's questions are:
"What big dream are you pulling yourself back from? Why not you?"