Who Needs Enemies...

Some people like to point out everything that is wrong with your plan. They like to belittle, and tell you exactly why you are going to fail, sometimes without even consciously meaning to.

They have talent for being able to pick you apart at the seams until you reach the point where you just want to give up. Another one consigned to the pile of dreams that never made it off the paper.

There is a time at the start when the details don't matter, we all need this phase, we must embrace it.

You need to dream big, in blobs of abstract colour. You can see the beautiful destination in the distance. That's where you want to be. Maybe it's your dream job, a hobby that you want to do, a change or habit you want to implement, a challenge you want to face, a fear you want to overcome.

This is the time of unfaltering belief in and acceptance of the possibility. You lay everything else aside, the details and the 'but what ifs'. They are not welcome.

Only, because the balloon is burst by the negative and belittling words of others, we don't often make it through this phase.

So in this show I talk about 7 truths that are worth understanding so we can lessen and hopefully reject the impact of belittling, invalidating, or patronising words.