Ego Friendly

While we at Ego Friendly often tell you to never give up and to carry on dreaming we also, almost as frequently and sometimes in the same article, dismiss pipe-dreams and unrealistic fantasies. How can you tell the difference? When is a Dream too big and when are you just giving up for no reason? The answer, as usual, is not so simple.

Everyone has their own levels of skill and expertise in their chosen endeavor- for some people, due to health conditions, a 10 minute mile is the best they are going to do. For others, anything short of 3 minutes is a joke. Dreams need to be looked at rationally: Do I have the skills I need to accomplish this?If not, can I get them? Can afford to live the life of a starving artist if I get dizzy whenever I miss a meal?

Dreaming is wonderful and a sign of successful people, but fantasizing is useless and a sign of a loser. What you need to do is ask yourself the tough question: Which one am I?