Thread: So Frustrating

Change your attitude! What I am going to say might be a little frustrating for you to hear, but every great lesson is.

You have to view the lucid dreaming practise in the same way as you view working out, getting good grades, succeeding in you career or even as the weird social competence journey of picking up chicks that I embarked on.

TOUGHEN UP!

As Rocky said: "I am going to tell you something that you already know, the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows, it's a very mean and nasty place and I do not care how tough you are it will BEAT YOU to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.... It ain't about how hard YOU hit. It's about how hard you can get hit an KEEP MOVING FORWARD, how much you can take and KEEP MOVING FORWARD! That's how winning is done!"

Look at this practise REALISTICALLY. You are trying to learn to become aware of sleeping, do you know how advanced that actually is?

If you believe that you can just come to this forum read a post and suddenly magically know how to do that. You are F*CKING wrong!

But I am going to give you the most sound advice I can think of:

Learn the principles of success and apply it to this practise. Take the SMALL pieces of GOLD of each time you practise. Learn from your misstakes do not get dragged down by them. ALL successful people failed AND got up again, while unsuccessful people just failed. There is no difference between the chances of unsuccessful people and successful people except that the successful people did not gave up!

And be humble! Realize that the masters did not learn by themselves, they studied OTHER successful people and copied what they did.

And read books by these people, BOOKS are their most valuable information condensed into one source. And when you have learned what THEY DID you can continue where they stopped. That is how the human collective knowledge have evolved.

As Isaac Newton said: "If I have seen further it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants."

So do not think you are better and try to develop some new technique without many years of experience, or complain about pitty problems that you believe is personal, because if you didn't you wouldn't be here asking. You would be looking for the answers from people who are 20-30 years of experience ahead of you!

If it sounds like I am attacking you in this message, I am not. I am just ranting how I feel and I am really just ranting on myself.
So do not take this personally or anything at all, because nothing ever is.

But to sum up my advice:

- Read books of people who are experienced in the topic you want to learn. (Or inspiring members on this forum)
- Realize that SUCCESS is tough, because if it wasn't it would by definition no longer be success..
- Stop with the self-pitty and complaining and focus on taking right action. If you EVER feel whiny, look at some motivational youtube video on youtube to get in the right mindspace and fill your head with better or more useful thoughts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcPK3y1OtPU

And the advice that I have personally followed ever since joining and which is the reason to why I am still in the game:

Focus on the positive NOT the negative. See each night as an experiment not an attempt. Look at my dream journal, I do videoblogs. In each video I only talk about the positive aspect of my practise and of course use the negative things to focus myself, but I am just happy with the fact that I keep taking action and continue to learn.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/mastermind/

Make that your critera of success: Instead of making the result of having a lucid dream as your definition of success, change it to "If I took the right action that I know is going to take me towards my goal, I am happy". So where other people see failures and give up, you instead see lessons and get motivated and keep moving forward.

I hope this helps you and good luck!