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Right now - the WINTER. I'm ready and itching to work on my garden expansion, and start erecting my greenhouse. A foot of snow and single digit temperatures are standing in the way.
Also, the stupid zoning ordinance for livestock - I live close to the cut off, preventing me from raising some poultry. I'd have enough room for free range chickens. A neighbor got around the zoning issue and raised rabbits on his property for food and claimed there was good money in it; however I wouldn't have the heart to raise bunnies just to butcher them.
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Not a single thing. We've had some bumps along the way, but I never look at them as stopping me. Husband and I still believe from our Marine Corps days...improvise, adapt, and overcome.
We've achieved a good chunk of ours, and my DH and I pretty much started out with nothing. It's easy to blame someone else, but the bottom line is that you're the only one who controls your life and the choices you make. Understanding the consequences of those choices is a big part of getting ahead.
Easy to blame others, especially the government, for not achieving your dreams.
I live a life that is filled with wonder - I wonder how it got to be so good.
Seriously, I could not have dreamed I could be this fulfilled by my job, friendships and hobbies.
If you're not attaining your dreams, and aren't taking actions that will help you attain them, then you've no one to blame but yourself.
Blaming government is an easy cop-out; it's easier than accepting responsibility for your life and life choices.
Still, it's not going to help you get where you say you want to be.
Others don't hold us back, we hold ourselves back.
Attitude is one of the ways we do it.
The only person someone has to blame for not achieving their dreams is themselves.
The OPs questions isn't asking who is holding you back from achieving your dreams but what is holding you back.
He wasn't necessarily implying that it was someone else's fault but perhaps what in you is holding you back. A very different question. Could be fear, obligations, finances, illness, an injury etc.
For example I have a good friend that aspired to make it to the olympics and they were very talented and it was a definite possiblity. They were injured and could not attain this dream. So were they holding themselves back or was someone else? No. Sometimes it happens. LIfe gets in the way.
Let's face it; not everyone will achieve every goal they have. Very few in fact. And if people say they have then they may not be willing to be completely honest with themselves.
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