Don't fear criticism

Don’t Fear Criticism

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway”  –Eleanor Roosevelt

People let all sorts of things stop them from moving forward.  The thing I have learnt that people don’t fulfill their dreams because of  fear of criticism!  No matter what you do or how well you do it you are going to be criticized so you may as well move forward and do it anyway!

I knew a relative once who was literally petrified of rejection and the criticism of others.  It became so bad she could not go anywhere without a relative being with her.  At first, it started small.  She didn’t want to go to the market alone.  But problem became big when she refused to study because she can’t even face people.   She had so many talents and was so gifted in many ways, but she couldn’t give her gift for fear of what people would say and think.  How sad this is for the world needed so desperately what she had to give!

People are going to criticize you no matter what you do.  Even if you could be perfect they would say, “I can’t be friends with him/her they are too perfect!  They make me feel inferior!!”  No matter what, you aren’t going to always be liked or understood by all people.   Where we go wrong is we take it personally instead of thinking, “Oh, God bless them and deliver THEM from a critical spirit!

There was one and only one perfect person Who walked the face to this earth and it is Lord Krishan!  But he was also criticized by people. Why?  It couldn’t have been because He deserved it, or because He had done something wrong.  We know for a fact He never sinned and only went about doing good!  He was criticized for being perfect!! 

I had a pastor say something so strange one time.  He said, “You have to do with compliments what you do with criticism…throw it all out of the window and keep going.   The work you did yesterday  is past.  Today is a brand new day and you have to keep moving onward and upward!”   Remember, yet again, people are fickle. Don’t let their “fickle” attitudes be the downfall of you.  Just keep on doing good and loving and you will continue moving onward and upward!  In all actuality they will probably love you again tomorrow, but if they don’t remember it doesn’t matter what they think of you!  We don’t need to please everyone in the world

What is your reaction to criticism?  To quit?  To want to just stay in bed all day with your head under the covers never facing anyone?  Eating chocolate chip cookies and drinking Coke all day?  Actually, that doesn’t sound too bad!  But the fact is you don’t get anything accomplished that way.   There is another saying, “It is better to have tried and failed than to fail to try at all!”  I promise you that will be your biggest regret!

The world needs your gift!  You were created for a purpose, and you were created to produce!  Now do your duty, don’t worry about criticism.