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I received an email today from a potential TEFL course student asking advice about starting a career as a TEFL teacher with a young child (3 years old).

A friend had told her that her having a child would lessen her chances of finding the TEFL job she desired.

To be blunt, this kind of advice really pisses me off. It can be really damaging.

Okay, so it may be more of a challenge for her to find a TEFL job with a child than someone without a family. But by no stretch of the imagination is it impossible. And it certainly should not be a reason for this person to give up pursuing what she wants.

Why do friends have to be so discouraging sometimes?

The truth is, when people give you this kind of ‘advice’ they are actually voicing their own self-limiting beliefs. What it really says is that the person giving the so-called advice is putting limits on themselves, blaming external circumstances and then projecting this on to you.

The truth is the only person that can put limitations on yourself is you. No external person or circumstance possibly can, only you.

The woman with the 3 year old can do anything she puts her mind to. She can have the job of her dreams if she really wants it. They are no limitations outside of her own mind. And the same goes for you and me.

Whenever someone tries to tell you that you can’t do something for whatever reason, just smile nicely and take their advice with a huge grain of salt. It’s their own self-limiting beliefs they’re expressing, not yours.

You really can achieve anything you want. It doesn’t mean it will be easy, but guaranteed you can find a way to make anything happen if you want it enough.

You just have to want it enough and believe it is yours.

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