I took a nap and had an extremely weird dream. I was in a liminal space bathroom in some basement like in a commercial building and when I turned on the shower I had like weird evil laughs so I took out my phone to record it. And it stopped. Everytime I tried to record it stopped. I had other weird dreams like a jewellery store murdering someone, her back story about berries that kill, people trying to hide her body and then speaking about it in code out of guilt, someone trying to sexually assault me, an earth quake that kills a child
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Then I have to remind myself how many obstacles I’ve pushed myself through and all that I have now is a result of not giving up.
Everything is such a freaking process.
Growth is a process.
Success is a process.
True love is a goddamn long process.
What isn’t a process?
Settling.
Your best self doesn’t want you to give up on it.
Your healing doesn’t want you to give up on it.
Your soul doesn’t want you to give up on it.
Your passions & dreams don’t want you to give up on them.
Your true love doesn’t want you to give up on him/her.
All that is worthwhile takes time.
That’s why it’s worthwhile.
That’s why it’s rare.
Because while 99.99% of people give up, you choose to keep going.
You have to be mindful of when your mind plays tricks on you because of your fear of rejection.
It makes you think that you don’t want that thing anymore and give up. When in fact, it’s your mind trying to protect itself from potentially getting rejected.
Getting rejected is actually you rejecting yourself.
If you can spot this and refrain yourself from “sabotaging the process”, then you can almost win anything in life.
Because winning in life is simply that - stopping yourself from sabotaging success, growth, a relationship.
Because if you don’t self-sabotage, you can pretty much be guaranteed to get to the end.
What did I not give up on?
✅ Wanted to go to school in Australia since I was 12. Successfully moved for university when I was 18.
✅ Wanted to have my own business since I was 15. Successfully started one when I was 27.
✅ Dreamed of traveling the world since I was 10. Wanted to have the freedom to move freely. Have been living the digital nomad life since 2015 (age of 27). 😊
✅ Wanted to have the freedom with my time AND money since as long as I can remember. My mom was strict and very tight with money. I had to do things her way in order to get pocket money. It was suffocating.
I was determined that one day I would be so successful that I don’t have to bend over backwards to ask anyone for money or for freedom to do whatever I want whenever I want however I want. Only I can set the rules for my own life.
Now I have both. Sort of. 🙂 I can work whenever I want wherever I want (though I tend to work all the time lol). I can eat out whenever I want and not have to worry.
✅ Dreamed of becoming a successful writer/author whose books inspire millions of people. I had so much joy writing essays at school. I used to write a novel and passed around to everyone in class to read. Well, I’m half way there. 🙏🏻
✅ I really wanted to be skinny, fit, and firm.
I was a fat kid so I dreamed of being fit. Managed to lose 15kg, but always had issues with weight control. Now in 2020 in quarantine, probably the fittest I’ve ever been. 😆 I’ve not weighed myself in so long and have stabilized my body shape physically and mentally (aka I stopped being obsessed with scale). Yay! 🙂
✅ When I was a kid, I wanted to be able to speak English fluently. Now English feels like a mother tongue to me. 😊
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What about you? What did you achieve that are the results of not giving up?
Write down a list of accomplishments that happened because you did not give up on them, adding the date when it was just a dream and the date when it became a reality:
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Damn, some of these took 10-20 years, didn’t they?
Although they might look like an overnight success to others.
Every time you feel like giving up, remind yourself that you have experienced this feeling of wanting to give up so many times in this life before.
Had a dream last night where I woke up to a soft knock at the door, thinking I was actually awake I just stayed laying down hoping to go back to sleep. But then my front door slowly opens and a familiar figure walks into the room, placed something on the floor, then crawled into bed with me, I realized who it was and wrapped my arms around them, and passed back out.
was really confused/emotional when I woke up, keep having dreams where this person randomly shows up, and just surprises the ever-loving shit out of me in a dream. Had another dream where I was sitting at my desk, look to the left out the window, and there she was walking up the sidewalk towards the house, ran out to her in an instant.
but then I wake up by myself, to my heart doing summersaults.
1) Write your dreams immediately upon awakening. If you engage in another activity like brushing your teeth or having breakfast your brain will become fully alert, focus on external reality and the short term memory of your dream will be lost or greatly diminished. If you find it challenging to get up and write your dreams right away you can get yourself a voice recorder with large buttons you can recognize in the dark, this will make it much easier and enjoyable, especially when recording a dream in the middle of the night when you want to fall back to sleep. Record your dreams on your voice recorder and later on write them in your dream journal (do not skip this step, the voice recorder is not a substitute).
2) For every dream create a title and write the time and date. When you create a title or name the theme of your dream it will increase your memory of it by the principle of association.
3) Underline or highlight your dream signs (oddities of the dream world that differ from waking reality).
4) Sometimes you will find it challenging to write down something you saw or experienced. This is a perfect opportunity to draw or sketch what you saw. It’s OK if your drawing looks like that of a 3 year old, welcome to the club ;)
5) If you don’t remember much don't concern yourself, write ANYTHING like: how you were feeling when you woke up, what thoughts you were having or any image. Remember that we all dream every night, if you don’t remember your dreams then keeping a dream journal will help you solve this dilemma.
I had a dream about Jiyong. It was short but it had a big impact.... Jiyong with his twin rat tail and blue Hawaiian shirt during the MAMA event look on a Japanese variety and asked to spread pink yogurt on strawberries that are fanned out..... the game was to see how much strawberries he can complete in a short amount of time but he took his time and spread the yogurt like a diva. Pinky up and everything. Someone tell me why the fuck I dreamt something like that. What does this mean x.x G-Diva taking over my life even during sleep???
