"Let the man who says it cannot be done not disturb the man doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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As we continue to answer the question “what
happened to your dream”, recall that I mentioned that a great dream could
easily succeed or fizzle into nothingness depending on the people around it,
either dream helpers or dream terminators. One indicator that you have a dream
terminator around your dream is that you have a constant destructive critic
around you, someone that never says or sees something positive about your
dreams.
The story is told of a judge who had been frequently ridiculed by a conceited lawyer, who never saw anything good about the judge’s judgments. When asked by a friend why he didn't rebuke his assailant, he replied, "In our town lives a widow who has a dog. And whenever the moon shines, it goes outside and barks all night."
Having said that, the magistrate shifted the conversation to another subject; finally someone asked, "But Judge, what about the dog and the moon?" "Oh," he replied, "the moon went on shining--that's all."
There could not be a better response to a destructive critic. Be like the moon, keep shinning and pursuing your dreams. The moon doesn’t go into hiding because of a barking dog. Let me leave you with 6 pointers to a destructive critic who is a dream terminator. How they bury a good dream;
