Who Is Holding You Back?

Who Is Holding You Back?
by Dr. Robert Anthony
http://ManifestingSecrets.com

When you were younger did you have great dreams, great
ambitions to write or to paint, to start a business, or to
do some other creative work? Most of us did. In fact, if we
are completely honest with ourselves, most of us still
cherish these ambitions this very day, but we excuse
ourselves on the basis of other commitments. I have my job
to do. I would love to write a novel, but I have to do my
work. I would love to paint, but I have a defect in one of
my eyes or some other completely fatuous excuse we develop
for not fulfilling our desires.

Think for a moment about Caesar. Did you know that Caesar
wrote his commentaries in his tent at night while all the
rest of the Roman army was asleep and then got up the next
day and went to battle? Did you know that Handel wrote his
best music after his doctors told him he was going to die;
that Beethoven wrote music after he was totally deaf? Have
you ever thought that three of the great epic poets or our
world Homer, Milton, Dante, were all, blind.

Think of Hannibal and Lord Nelson; great generals that they
were, each had one eye. Francis Joseph Campbell, a blind
man, became a distinguished mathematician and musician. Do
you find yourself bound around in some way and feel, “Oh no,
not with my limitations. I’ll never be able to do what I
want to do.” Think again about the author of Robinson
Crusoe, Daniel DeFoe; he wrote that novel while he was in
prison. John Bunyon wrote Pilgrims’ Progress while he was in
jail. Luther translated the bible while he was in jail.
Luther translated the Bible while he was in the castle of
Wartburg. Dante worked for twenty years while he was under
exile and under the sentence of death. Don Quixote was
written by Cervantes while he was in the Madrid jail. And
then perhaps you say, “This is fine, but I have my job to
do.”

Well, my friend, I have news for you!

Have you ever looked at the thickness of the book Gone With
The Wind? Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With The Wind while
she was working full time at a newspaper. Do you think of
yourself as physically handicapped? Did you know that Lord
Cavanaugh, who was a member of Parliament, had neither arms
nor legs, yet managed to put himself into Parliament by his
own endeavors.

Just think of Shakespeare, who learned little more than
reading and writing at school, but by self-teaching, made
himself the master among literary men.

Think again about the treasured ambitions locked up in your
soul. Look again at the excuse, which you have used to
prevent yourself from fulfilling your dreams. See if for the
false thing that it really is. Cast it aside and resolve to
express your creative desire through your own creative
activity. Remember, you are the only person who can hold you
back.

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