Imagine if birds acted just a little more like us. For a start, you'd never hear any bird singing.

No bird would sing, just in case some other bird poked fun at its meager ability.

No bird would fly, in fear of an embarrassing landing in front of its friends. Rather than put up with all those taunts, it would keep itself planted firmly on the ground.

Imagine a sky with no birds. Imagine a forest with no bird-song. It's just not right, is it?

Imagine a world without success

Each and every one of us is capable of achieving great things, yet none of us start out that way.

Of course, we're born with certain natural abilities. Everything else, we have to work for.

Unfortunately, most of us never achieve even a small percentage of what we're capable of. And we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

One of the main reasons we don't achieve what we're capable of, is the fear of what others will think.

It's an irrational fear

This is an irrational fear, and it needn't hold you back from pursuing your dream. Think about it for a second. The people whose opinion we're afraid of...

• May not hold that opinion (why do we automatically assume our assumptions are true?)
• Probably haven't achieved anything either
• May well be stopped by what they assume is our opinion of them

Aren't human beings crazy? We invest a large percentage of our time worrying about what other people think of us. We forget they're too busy worrying about what we think of them, and don't have time to spare us a second thought.

All this worrying wastes valuable time we might better invest in pursuing our dream.

The birds don't do that. They sing, because that's what birds do. They fly, because that's what birds do.

Human beings are meant to dream up new ideas, and pursue them. And we're especially good at it, if we allow ourselves the time.

So go ahead. Allow the animal in yourself to surface, and do what you dream of doing.

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