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NEGATIVITY CAN OVERTAKE YOU
ANYWHERE ON THE PATH TO YOUR DREAMS
You are never
safe from negation. Unchecked negativity can rapidly flush the
achievements of a lifetime down the drain. Negativity is an
ever present and unwanted companion that continually invites you
to abandon your dreams.
Everyone moving in the direction
of their dreams will suffer defeats and sometimes feel their
dreams are impossible. Negativity will attempt to derail them
on the path of achievement, and the temptation to quit will be
strong. Everyone wants life to be easy. They want either no
opposition at all or opposition to politely step out of the way
as they move toward their goals. This is unrealistic. People
who achieve their dreams aren’t strolling through life; they are
climbing the mountain of difficulty, and hard work and
perseverance are the only way to reach the top.
If you ever reach your dreams, it
will be because you stopped listening to the voice of fear and
negation. You stopped looking at your limitations and stopped
constructing barriers that exist only in your mind.
When you decide to sail around
the world on a sailboat, you encounter an ocean of opposition.
A crowd of naysayers and critics freely offer unsolicited
opinions and advice concerning your proposed circumnavigation of
the globe. Friends are sure you are having a midlife crisis.
When you write the check to pay for your yacht, they inform you
that you have made a down payment on an expensive funeral at
sea. They tell you all of that money could have been spent on a
nice house, 100 channels of cable television, and the help of a
good therapist to get you over this foolish desire to sail
around the world. The easiest thing to find on planet earth is
someone to tell you why your dreams are too expensive, too
dangerous, and a waste of time. With cheerleaders like that,
it’s amazing anyone pursues their dreams.
It’s not just family and friends
who question your judgment. During moments of adversity, you
wonder whether you are heading down a one way street in the
wrong direction. The voice of fear starts a powerful negative
chorus that repeats itself thousands of time, and if you start
listening to its message, your dreams will evaporate.
What would happen if you fall off
the boat at night at sea? What happens if a whale rams your
boat? What happens if you hit a floating log, or if a ship runs
you down at night? What happens if a hurricane strikes? What
happens if you meet pirates or drug runners? What if your boat
is struck by lightening? What if your boat runs up on a reef
and is destroyed on a remote deserted island? What if you get
sick when you are at sea? What if you have appendicitis when
you are one thousand miles from land? What if you hit your head
or break a leg? What if your boat turns upside down? What if
there is a fire or explosion on board? What if you collide at
night with a floating container that has fallen off a ship?
What if you become seasick? Who will stay awake at night and
stand watch while you sail offshore? What if your boat sinks
and you lose all of the money you invested in the yacht? What
if you loose your medical skills while you sail around the
world? How will you ever be able to return to the practice of
medicine?
I experienced all of these
negative thoughts many times before I purchased my yacht. Those
thoughts could have stopped my voyage before it got started. My
dreams would have been stillborn if I listened to the voice of
fear.
If I listed all of the reasons
why I shouldn’t sail around the world in a small sailboat, I
could write a hundred page document full of disaster,
difficulty, and despair. I know dozens of reasons why my dreams
are too expensive and involve too much risk. If I listen to the
voice of fear and negativity, I will sit at the dock and watch
everyone else sail on the ocean of their dreams.
Once I hoisted my sails in Fort
Lauderdale and started my voyage, I had dozens of opportunities
for negativity to sink the ship of my dreams. On my first night
at sea, I experienced the most powerful thunderstorm I
encountered on the entire trip around the world. Surely, that
must have been a sign sailing around the world is a bad idea.
It was a message to stop the voyage in the Bahamas, anchor the
boat in Chicken Town, and check in to Hotel California where I
could never leave, but at least I would be safe.
When I reached the Panama Canal,
the voice of fear again tried to cancel my dream of sailing
around the world. There is no need to transit the Panama Canal
and sail in the Pacific. Just stay in the Caribbean and have a
wonderful cruise. The Pacific Ocean is a vast body of water
with reefs, cyclones, and killer whales that could destroy my
yacht. The voice of fear told me to stay in the Caribbean
forever.
After I arrived in the Pacific,
the voice of fear started a new verse with the same fearful
chorus. It’s three thousand miles from the Galapagos Islands to
French Polynesia. You are at sea day and night for three
weeks. You don’t see any other humans for twenty-one days, and
there’s no one to rescue you if you get into trouble. Don’t
go. Stay in Nowhere Land where you’ll be safe.
After I arrived in French
Polynesia, the voice of fear said to skip sailing to the Tuamotu
Archipelago. You will hit a reef as you sail through the
atolls. The passes through the reefs into the lagoons are too
small, and once inside you will be trapped. A storm could
easily destroy your yacht when it’s inside a potentially
treacherous lagoon. Sailing in the Tuamotus involves high
risk. Skip them and sail directly to Tahiti.
After I sailed across the Pacific
Ocean, it was necessary to sail twelve hundred miles south from
Fiji to New Zealand. It’s a big trip into higher latitudes and
the voice of fear again rippled through the cruising fleet. The
talk was of storms with special emphasis on the recent Queen’s
Birthday storm in which lives and yachts were lost. Sailing in
the higher southern latitudes presented new and unfamiliar
risks. The voice of fear filled everyone with a sense of
foreboding. Sailing to and from New Zealand is scary. Some
mariners left their yachts in storage in Fiji to avoid the sail
south. Other sailors loaded their yachts on freighters and
shipped them home.
Several weeks after I arrived in
New Zealand, I rolled the car I was driving. I broke both legs,
fractured five ribs, punctured one lung and had internal
bleeding. I was transfused seven units of blood, had three
surgeries, and spent two months in the hospital. Surely, this
disaster proved sailing around the world was a bad idea. The
sensible thing would be to sell the yacht, buy a plane ticket to
Nowhere Land, and start watching cable television where I would
be safe and secure for the rest of my life.
Negativity can overtake you
anywhere on the path to your dreams. I could have stopped my
trip around the world a dozen times before I reached New
Zealand. Surrendering dreams is easy. You can do it anywhere
or anytime. Most people will tell you that you are doing the
right thing when you sell your dream machine and join the ranks
of the Life Long Disoriented.
Negativity is a stalker that
never goes away; it’s your unfailing and unwanted companion
eternally inviting you to abandon your dreams.
Negativity is a dream
stealer. Don't listen to the voice of negativity. It
will ruin your life.
You must have zero
tolerance to negative thinking if you want your dreams to come
true.
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