The Imaginary Friend Within

We often ask questions about ourselves that we already know the answers to, but we ask because we want someone else to confirm what we should already know better than anyone else.

The people we often turn to are our friends that we have good honest relationships with and trust them to give us the best advice possible, a lot of the times we find out that they tell us more or less what we were thinking in a different way but because we do not have the same trust and faith in ourselves we never thought it was possible and if self doubt persist then their advice will just end up falling on deaf ears. We need to learn to build more solid relationships with ourselves because it does not matter what advice we get from who, if we do not believe in and trust ourselves then we will not be able to turn that advice into action.

It is very important that we learn to trust and believe in our abilities before we give others that responsibility because if we do not believe then it does not matter who believes as our individual success is mostly in our hands and any help we get needs to be accompanied by faith in ourselves if we are to use it effectively.

A good technique that can help us to build more meaningful friendships with ourselves is the imaginary friend concept, think back to when you were a child, when you had no friends around, you would make them up and have so much fun with them that you forgot they are not real for a moment, and the fun you had with your imaginary friend would translate to the fun you would have with your actual friends when you eventually saw them.

Imagine that your imaginary friend is your partner in success and you have full faith in that friend to always guide you in the right direction and the same way the imaginary friend you had as a kid played a positive role in your life, imagine this one to do the exact same thing just on a more mature level.

Take your imaginary friends advice with confidence and belief that it will make you the person you dream of becoming; this will have a greater impact than when someone else gives you the same advice because the imaginary friend is a source that you created and lives within and because you unlimited thought and imagination to create that person, go wild with the idea and create the most successful person to ever live and draw inspiration from that person at all times.

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Rori Matsetela