You must be true to YOURSELF. Don't try to conform to other people's expectations of you. The most important person to please is YOURSELF. If you are happy, everyone who is touched by your life will benefit. We often hear stories about people who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and who achieved their goals against their odds. But I know that for everyone of those who achieved their goals there are at least a thousand others who didn't pursue their dreams, because they weren't encouraged to do so. As children, we assume that because our parents are older and wiser and because they love us, what they say must be true.
If they told us:
You have an awful voice,
You will never be an artist,
You're too shy to act,
You're too clumsy to be a waitress,
You're too short to be a model,
Your're too dumb to be a nurse
You don't have enough brains to go to college, we believed them. You can't change the past. Your parents and other influential people in your life said what they believed to be true. That doesn't mean it was TRUE. As an adult, you can decide on a different belief. You can now decide to believe in YOURSELF.
Shakespeare said, "this above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." To be true to yourself is to be in a state of grace. To find out if you are being true to yourself, ask yourself these two important questions:
1) If weren't getting paid for what I'm doing, would I continue to do it?
If the answer is yes, you're doing what you want to do.
2) If I only had one year to live, would I continue to do what I'm doing?
if the answer is no, then why don't you STOP? You could die within the next day or year, and you would have wasted your last year doing something you didn't want to do.....
