Never give up

We all have that one dream, that one goal that we want to achieve so badly. We may talk to a few people about this dream, tell everyone or keep it to ourselves... and then we give up on it because it seems it is taking to long to accomplish. Or we can look into the future and think "in 5 years time I still won't be where I want to be" and so change our dream because we want instant happiness and instant money and instant job satisfaction.

This is where Earl Nightingale comes in; "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway"

If you really want something - Go for it! Who cares how long it takes - if you know what you need to do, and how you are going to do it then the time will fly by as you work towards it. You will have so much more of an interesting life story to tell if you have had to work hard for something, or if there have been lots of diversions on the way.

I have been feeling a bit defeated these past few weeks; my friends are all either going into their 1st/2nd or 3rd year of university, some are engaged, some are getting married and most have jobs. I don't regret taking a gap year, it was great and I have had experiences that I wouldn't have got if I had gone to university. It has however set me back a year and I feel everyone else seems to be moving on with their lives and I'm still in the same place. HOWEVER I can't dwell on that, I know what I want to do, it is just going to take me a few years to get there.

I think its really important that we (myself included) don't compare our struggles to anyone else's. That we don't get discouraged by someone else's success - we all have our own success in life, maybe by gaining a degree, or maybe by travelling to the other side of the world alone. Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle; you don't have to do what everyone else is doing.

God has an amazing plan for everybody's life.
Never give up.