If You Can Deal With This Painful Truth, You Stand a Chance at Turning Your Daydreams Into Reality

Ayodeji Awosika
5 min readNov 1, 2020

If you’re anything like me, which I’m guessing you are because you’re reading a self-improvement article, you probably daydream more than the average person.

You know you have a ton of potential. That’s why you’re so frustrated. You can clearly and easily see that better version of yourself achieving all the goals and dreams in your mind.

Why is it so hard to become that person in real life? Don’t let the other self-improvement writers fool you — it’s difficult.

Literally difficult? No, you could just begin to execute the behaviors needed for success right now in an instant.

But becoming the ideal version of yourself is extremely psychologically difficult.

But why?

Well, your daydreams are part of the problem. See, daydreams are almost as good as having the real thing — almost. Fantasizing helps you get by in life. If you had to sit with your true reality one hundred percent of the time and had the inability to dream of a better future, you’d go insane or get depressed.

Why do you think we keep ourselves so distracted at all times? Not just with daydreams, but with entertainment, food, drugs and alcohol, whatever. First, it…

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