Lecture 23
What Is Holding You Back?
A few of my scholar friends have said that we all are born with the world’s most powerful and unique tool, our brain that can be switched on to perform miracles for us. However, many individuals, homes and schools have managed to develop only a limited part of our brain. We can do a lot more by reading, listening, writing, playing, singing, drawing, thinking and doing.
Despite the above knowledge we all know that there are a few barriers in our lives that hold us back from progress. What is holding you back? I can give you a few of these for your consideration. Let us call them UPS. The first one is your Hang Ups. These are the excuses for your inertia. Your Hang Ups can be many but let me outline a few of them.
I am too old to do this work. I do not have good education for this job. I do not have any money for good living. I am the victim of racial discrimination. I cannot do this work because I am a woman.
These are our lame excuses and silly reasons. The best thing is to get out of your hang-ups and get determined to give every work a try with your best effort. Remember that no one is good at everything. You need to do a lot of reading, listening and practicing to get rid of your hang-ups.
We all have the talent, our individual uniqueness, our drive, passion and personality to excel at something but we must find that something soon. If we are not able to find that something then we are faced with our second barrier called our Bang Ups. These are once upon a time jolts, difficulties and problems that we have had in our past. These Bang Ups become our greatest hurdles because we fail to forget them and they keep on bothering us. In fact such one-time problems cannot and will not affect us always if we are determined to forget them.
What I am saying is that we should not let one of our old-time setbacks, defeats, failures and problems bother us and become our bang ups. How can such small one-time difficulty or old hurts make such a big noise and frighten us forever? We cannot let such slight bang ups of our life hold our progress.
I have heard some people say such foolish things as: “I will never get married in my life because my first partner was not faithful, honest and sincere with me.” Well one person can deceive you but not necessarily the next one you meet. This world is full of other honest people. You only have to take a re-look at your