Why is so difficult to switch off the television even when we suppose to be doing something else that would led us to achieve our dreams? For sure is more comfortable to keep doing our familiar habits than facing challenges that will bring us to an unknown place. But, what that means to you to postpone your goals just because it seems easier to play safe?
If you fear to be defeated means that may be you’ll never know what is to be victorious. Here, the biggest step is indeed to overcome our procrastination. How? Asking yourself what really depends on you to make the changes happen. However, it is important to consider and accept that what you have done so far was essential to prepare you to the next step.
Raquel’s history is great example of changes can happen when we recognize our courage and acknowledge our self-limited beliefs as opportunities to grow. She came to London two and half years ago without speak a word in English. Her real dream was attend a pos-graduate programme in Cultural Production to explore her passion when she returned to Brazil, which was to spread her local art throughout the whole country.
After more than two years of hard work and focus to learn a foreign language she was still resisting to apply for her place in the pos-graduate programme because she couldn’t see herself good enough to succeed the admission interview in an academic environment. Her thought was “If I make any mistake the tutor will disapprove me immediately and even if they accept me I’m not ready to face an academic level”. With this negative ‘self-talk’ she wasted two opportunities of being accepted and start the course in the following month.
When she came to coaching Raquel was still denying all her achievements, such as of being a foreigner that left all of her relatives to fight for he dreams, where she needed to learn another language and have worked so hard to save the money to pay her long-waited course. She was use to blame herself because she couldn’t get rid of her accent, even if her domain with the language was excellent.
After a short coaching programme Rachel became more self-confident and optimist, reconsidering all of her resources that helped her to overcome her negative ‘self-talk’ and her projection for perfection. She accepted her limited self-beliefs and arranged her first interview as an opportunity to measure her English level. She accept that if she wasn’t approved she would at least identify what she would need to improve. Besides, she would never be able to overcome her procrastination if she hasn’t tried.
Raquel was accepted at her first interview and next February she starts her Pos-graduate programme followed of a Master degree.
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