![]() ![]() In some cases, if you change and progress in life, they see it as a reflection of their lack of change. Others may feel if we change they may lose us, we may no longer show interest in them. ![]() What do they really mean? Often friends and family do not want us to get hurt, they see a career change/entrepreneurial adventure/new study as a risk. When others discourage us, we need to see past their words. If we don’t get some resistance, then perhaps we are not aiming high enough. However, we can reframe a point of resistance as a milestone rather than a millstone. Many of us take it as a sign that it is not meant for us, that perhaps they’re right, we should be happy with what we have. It is hardest when those closest to you are the greatest dissenters. Just start in to sing as you tackle the thingĪ strange phenomena occurs when you announce your new plan, many people reject it. There are thousands to point out to you one by one, There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that īut he took off his coat and he took off his hatĪnd the first thing we knew he’d begun it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one “Those that say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it” Chinese Proverb It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest (circa 1917) ![]()
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