SKY’S THE LIMIT BY ROSLYN ROZBRUCH (FOOD FOR THOUGHT)
If you have an idea on your mind of something you want to have or accomplish in your life, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Recently, I was scrolling on Facebook and saw a post from a friend in front of a sports car declaring this was going to be her next car. She received a lot comments from people cheering her on, and then there was this one negative comment, “Oh, you should get this other sports car instead. The cost of maintenance is a lot.” I think all the positive comments drowned out Mr. Doubtful’s one, and even though my Facebook friend responded to him, luckily, she didn’t try to prove her car choice. But, more important than the car my friend wanted to own is my point of not letting anyone get into your head and tell you that you can’t realize your dream! I see that happen all the time. Someone shares “the thing” they want in their life, whatever it is, and someone else expresses doubt. “Oh, you can’t achieve that because of this, that, or the other thing.” I hate that! The first way I combat negative feedback is that I don’t share my hopes, dreams, and wishes with just anyone. I share my goals with people I know are really wishing the best for me. I don’t waste my energy trying to convince anyone of why I’m doing what I’m doing. There have been so many times in Michael’s and my life that we’ve achieved the thing that someone else said wasn’t possible. In 1998, when Michael wanted to pursue his dream of helping people with IRS problems, it wasn’t even an industry yet. Michael shares the story all the time of how he started his tax resolution practice. What you might not know was that when he told people what he was going to do, almost everyone told him he was crazy and that it was a bad idea. “How are you going to collect fees when they can’t pay the IRS?” and blah, blah, blah. So, I told Michael, “Quit telling people what you’re going to do. I believe in you. Follow your dreams.” Even in my own life I’ve experienced this. When I was in my late 30s, I was working in the editorial department of a magazine as an intern. The chances of them hiring me on as an editor over a college graduate with a degree in journalism was slim, but it wasn’t impossible. My thought process is, “if there’s one opening, it’s going to be someone, so why not me?” By the way, I beat out all the college graduates and was hired as the assistant editor.
Roslyn holding her bracelet
don’t have to visualize the entire journey to reaching your goal. You only have to believe it can happen for you. (And yes, you also have to do the work; that goes without saying.) I have many Roz-ism sayings, and one of them I tell Michael all the time is, “It’s the people we haven’t met and the ideas we haven’t thought of yet that will take us to where we want to go.” In our six-year-plus journey at Roz Strategies, there’s no way I could have visualized everything that’s happened along the way, because I’ve met people that have been mentors that have shared ways of achieving our goals I wouldn’t have thought of on my own, and also I’ve learned new things that I didn’t know before. If you put a ceiling over your head and think that’s as high as you can go, it’s going to be a lot harder to break through it than if the sky is your ceiling, which means your possibilities are endless.
Here’s to you and your dreams come true. Share them with those who wish you success and believe in you. You can always share them with me because I will cheer you on! For my Facebook friend, I can’t wait to see Y.B. post a picture with her driving her new sports car. –Roslyn Rozbruch
Anything is possible in life. You just have to believe there’s a chance for it to be possible. When you have a goal, you
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