Don't give up on yourself

We are where we are at this precise moment in our lives, and many of us have dreams and aspirations to be somewhere else, to be doing something else and even be someone else.

It doesn't matter how far fetched your dream is, if it's something you want, you should do everything you can to follow it and make it come true.  Money, work, relationships, travel, fame - it can all be achieved if you really want it to.

The clue is to ask yourself how much you want to live your dream, if you are prepared to sacrifice your current lifestyle for it and what you need to do to achieve it.

It doesn't matter if you don't achieve your dream immediately, or within a short given timescale. You have the whole of your life ahead of you. Why do you need to be married by the age of 25, or a millionaire at 30? When we put small timescales on our goals, we make them less achievable.  Instead of giving yourself a time goal, remind yourself of your end target, remind yourself what you will feel like when you get there, but make sure you have fun on the way.

And it's not cheating to alter your goals or your dreams, maybe you said you wanted to buy a house in London, but on the way to buying your house, you find your ideal home in the countryside, then follow that new route to reaching your goal. As long as it makes you happy and is what you want.

If you think you are never going to reach your goal, ask yourself the questions that you think are stopping you and put plans in place to overcome those hurdles. Your goal will still be there, it may just take a little longer to reach. As I said earlier, you don't need to put timescales on your goals and dreams and sometimes the route to reaching them is just as much fun as when you do hit them.

Don't give up on yourself. Believe in what you can do, follow your dreams and make yourself happy.