Author: Armah O Dashiell
As we exercise our right to dream, we’re also obligated to
willfully give it our best shot to becoming successful. Becoming successful is our
own outlook of overcoming certain things within our life that may seem a little
challenging. Anything worth being proud of does not come easy. It makes us as
human beings feel good when we can accomplish something in which we give it everything.
It’s the process that makes us the strongest. Let me give you a good example.
Richard and Maurice McDonald had a vision of speedy customer
service in the restaurant business. They came up with a great business model for
“McDonalds Bar B Q” and executed it the best way they knew how. They took
notice to what was selling the best and they remodeled their business plans a
bit by refocusing on certain key items. For a while everything was going well
for them, but they begin to get comfortable with their financial success and
didn’t realize they had placed a lid on their potential earnings. They forgot
that the original vision was so much bigger than they had reached at the time of
their stagnation point in which we also find ourselves doing at times. They
reached a place to where they had to make a choice to either stay in their
comfort zone financially or recreate the wheel a little to exceed where they
currently found themselves. After giving thought they made the choice to sell the
business to a gentleman by the name of Ray Kroc in 1955 under certain
stipulations.
Ray Kroc was the seller of Multimixer Milkshake Machines in
which the McDonald brothers used themselves. Ray was introduced to the McDonald
brothers in 1954 by his friend named Charles Lewis who made the life changing suggestion
that Ray checkout the restaurants potential. Ray met with the McDonald brothers
and suggested to them that they should franchise their business because he seen
a greater potential for a financial growth. The McDonald brothers took Ray up
on his suggestions and the rest is history. Now we all across America love to
support Richard, Maurice and Ray’s vision over 50 years later. Who doesn’t love
the McDonalds Corporation?
I used this story as an example because as Richard and
Maurice had a vision, so does many of you the readers of this article. What stops
many of us from pursuing these visions come from our inner emotions such as the
fear of failure, fear of being criticized by others, and the fear of being
disconnected from those people in which we hold close to the heart. These are often
what I call unnecessary road blocks. We find ourselves placing boundaries in
our way voluntarily. So how can we bring forth the change to the involuntary fears that many of us face
today? Let me give you a few ideas.
When you find yourself up against fear it can be
really overwhelming at first. That’s why you have to know strategies of how to
embrace these fears while using them for your good and not allowing them to overpower
you for the worse. The first step is normally the hardest, but you have to
admit to self that you let your fears get the best of you. Secondly, you have
to be determined that you no longer will allow fear to stand in the way of
getting things done. Lastly, you have to just take the risk of pursuing what it
is you believe in while remaining positive no matter what the result may turn
out to be. I encourage you the reader to pursue your dreams and let nothing
stand in your way. Go for bettering
yourself over becoming stagnated from what you think others may think of your
dream. You'll
never know your ending unless you attempt to
begin. 
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