Just because someone else thinks it's a bad idea does not mean it's a bad idea. Photo / iStock
You know when you have that great plan to quit your job and start your own business (yay!), or move across the country for a new life (yay!), build your own house (yay!), or give online dating a crack after many years solo (yay!) and you are all excited about
it, then a well-meaning friend or rellie pours a heap of cold water over it. How it's never going to work. It's a stupid plan. What are you thinking? Do you not realise just how wrong that could go? It's really risky. You obviously haven't thought it through.
And then, almost in an instant, you feel deflated. The excitement drains out of you faster than a punctured balloon and that grand plan is just chalked up to something you never did, even though every cell in your body was screaming for it.
It just becomes an unfulfilled wish, an unobtainable dream, rather than a goal with a plan and a deadline. It becomes a regret. A coulda, woulda, shoulda. And time rolls by and by, and nothing changes.
From such stuff regrets are made. There are a few things you need to know when you are contemplating big, bold, brave new moves. Let's start with three today:
Just because someone else thinks it's a bad idea does not mean it's a bad idea.
It just means they don't agree. That's okay. You don't have to agree. They may have some useful factual or experiential information for you, great, let's have that. Throw it in the mix for consideration and review. But if all they have for you is a broadcast of their own fears and insecurities, they are not facts and that has minimal bearing on the worthiness of YOUR idea, for YOU, in YOUR life, at THIS time.
