What prevents us from believing in our dreams?

Today I am going to tell you this story, because I am excited to talk about it. The last writing was about contrasts. The contrasts of life itself and the contrasts that I saw in Dubai.

In Dubai while I was on the subway I met a woman from India, I started a chat with her. She told me that she works for a cleaning company. This woman is beautiful and she had a generous soul, I could see it in her eyes.

I asked HER, What do you dream about?

She looked at me, as if I had asked her something that no one had asked her before or as if she hadn't asked herself for a while. She laughed and told me. I am very old. And I said how old are you?

She told me: I am 30 and I told her I am 31. Why do you think you are too old for your dream?

I insisted, what do you dream of? She told me, between laughs, that it not important, anyway it is impossible , and she insisted again on her age.

I didn't insist anymore and I told her, well I'll tell you the things that I dream about, As I am learning to dont insist when people is not ready to open theirself. aFTER ALL she opened HERSELF and after listening to me she said.

The truth is that I would like to have a healthy food business, salads, I like to cook and she opened up to tell me her story as an immigrant, she told me that all her brothers are in different parts of the world. And again she told me well, this not GOING TO happen to me, it is impossible.

I watched her and was stunned with her safety, I didn't try to convince her of anything but I told her. You can dream big, “you deserve everything you dream of”, and please age is not an impediment, I told her about Arepa's Station and how excited I am to continue being an entrepreneur in a different format.

I looked at her with love because I have been there so many times. At this time, her circumstances and the box that she is in does not allow her to see beyond her perspective.

That day, she motivated me to want to keep believing in myself and keep unlocking those things that prevent me from believing in myself. She invited me to continue empowering women, because she was absolutely resigned to her reality due to multiple social and economic factors that have made her believe that there is nothing more than her current routine.

We hugged each other and said good goodbye, and I reminded her not to stop believing in what she wants for herself and believe in her abilities.

Many people have saved me with just one sentence, Woj sent me for my birthday and a letter that said this sentence: "YOU CAN DO THIS" and maybe he doesnt not the impact of this simple card. I don't know because one of my love language is words of affirmation but I always try to remind myself over and over again when I'm saying “YOU CAN DO THIS”.

How many of us have felt like Anisha?

Something that works well for me is not procrastinating on what I know is important, I insist, and insist over and over, even if I see it as impossible, even if I don't see the results immediately.

There is not a day that I don't believe in myself, because since I was a child, although they called me inquisitive, asking questions all the time. This led me to learn more and more and open doors and close others.

My curiosity and that strength that defines me with a constant desire to learn have helped me get out of the multiple limiting boxes that are in my head.

Important tools§ on my path have been trust, believing in what my intuition moves me to, meditation, faith and this self-love that I building every day.