How To Keep Going When No-one Is Rooting For You

Vanessa Sophia
3 min readJan 9, 2022

Become your biggest fan because that’s all you need to believe in you

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Focusing on results too early might not be the best idea. Let’s face it when you are focusing on your dreams it takes a lot. It takes determination, motivation, and consistency. Consistency is hard in the beginning because you have to keep going. That’s the trick right there, you have to keep going.

Your mind isn’t wired to trust the process, it has doubts and fears. It doesn’t want to see what isn’t there. Especially if you don’t have anyone validating you. Let’s be realistic here, there are people that only see their limits, they will project that onto you and now it’s up to you to be your one and only motivator.

Focus On Goals Not Outcomes

Goals are guides but they aren’t the set-in-stone map to your plans. Say you have a dream to be successful in writing, there are goals you can set to get there but nothing is set in stone. Just when you think life is perfect and things are going as planned, everything plummets. Pick up and start again. Remind yourself why you wanted this dream.

It’s Better To Fail Than To Wonder

When I was 18 years old I contemplated suicide. I told myself every so often that if I didn’t give up in life…

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