Few people understand that in order for a goal to be met, one has to vision one's self achieving that goal prior to its actual achievement. Of course, the only people who knows that very well are the people who are successful in whatever they put their minds towards it.
First of all, I am not 100% in favor of the Metro, however the way the critics have been trying to discredit this project makes me slightly uneasy. I truly believe that the logic behind the critics is a main reason for why the DR has not reached the level of development it would have otherwise had by this time.
In his most recent speech, Leonel compared the DR to Depression Era USA (which economically the DR mirrors the USA of the 1920s and 1930s, with a few exceptions) and with the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The critics responded by saying that the DR is neither the US or France.
That's a fair response to a certain extent, but could that be the reason for our limitations when it comes to sustaining prosperity and economic growth?
Afterall, when Juan Pablo Duarte, Mella, and Sanchez decided to fight the Haitians to create a new sovereign nation, these men got their inspiration from France and the US!
These men did not thought that because they were in a country occupied by Haitian forces, that they were not going to persue their dream of a new country!
These men never thought that Santo Domingo was not the US or France for them to achieve a victory against the Haitian troops.
In the contrary! These men saw in their minds a new sovereign land they would eventually call the Dominican Republic, they got their inspiration from other successful nations rather than imbellishing in failure states, and they drew up a brilliant plan that was followed through and achieved!
Because of those points, the Dominican Republic is in existance today. If Duarte, Sanchez, and Mella ever had fallen into the mindset that because Santo Domingo was neither France or the US, that because Santo Domingo was not even a country at the time that they should never dream high.
These brave men never compared Santo Domingo to other Hispanic colonies who were themselves occupied, just like Santo Domingo. In the contrary, they dreamed big! They had big ambitions! They compared their nation not to the worst of the world, but to the best and attempted to achieve the same status of freedom and sovereignity France and the US achieved! And because of this, they put into action their plan and they succeeded!
Any successful person fully understands that in order to achieve big in life, first one must dream big. In order to achieve a goal, one has to compare one's own achievements not to the people below you, but to those who are above you! In order to lift beyond mediocrity one has to see one self in excellence!
Being a pessimist yields nothing beyond mediocrity and I am becoming ever more convinced that the reason why our country has not been performing how it should had performed in the past 40 or so years since Trujillo has mostly been the result of our very own mind and habit of not thinking outside of the box. Of only thinking of what is real today, but not what it could become tomorrow!
As Dominicans with aspiration to give our children a better country than the one our parents left us, we must learn to aspire to greatness and dream big and compare our progress to those who are at the top! We must learn to see ourself as a rich nation, then the steps to such achievement will fall in place one at a time.
There is no security in this world, only opportunity. Let's not handicap ourselves once more by keeping our minds closed. Thinking beyond one's scope yields a level of ambition that would lead one to achieve a level of success you never thought possible!
First of all, I am not 100% in favor of the Metro, however the way the critics have been trying to discredit this project makes me slightly uneasy. I truly believe that the logic behind the critics is a main reason for why the DR has not reached the level of development it would have otherwise had by this time.
In his most recent speech, Leonel compared the DR to Depression Era USA (which economically the DR mirrors the USA of the 1920s and 1930s, with a few exceptions) and with the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The critics responded by saying that the DR is neither the US or France.
That's a fair response to a certain extent, but could that be the reason for our limitations when it comes to sustaining prosperity and economic growth?
Afterall, when Juan Pablo Duarte, Mella, and Sanchez decided to fight the Haitians to create a new sovereign nation, these men got their inspiration from France and the US!
These men did not thought that because they were in a country occupied by Haitian forces, that they were not going to persue their dream of a new country!
These men never thought that Santo Domingo was not the US or France for them to achieve a victory against the Haitian troops.
In the contrary! These men saw in their minds a new sovereign land they would eventually call the Dominican Republic, they got their inspiration from other successful nations rather than imbellishing in failure states, and they drew up a brilliant plan that was followed through and achieved!
Because of those points, the Dominican Republic is in existance today. If Duarte, Sanchez, and Mella ever had fallen into the mindset that because Santo Domingo was neither France or the US, that because Santo Domingo was not even a country at the time that they should never dream high.
These brave men never compared Santo Domingo to other Hispanic colonies who were themselves occupied, just like Santo Domingo. In the contrary, they dreamed big! They had big ambitions! They compared their nation not to the worst of the world, but to the best and attempted to achieve the same status of freedom and sovereignity France and the US achieved! And because of this, they put into action their plan and they succeeded!
Any successful person fully understands that in order to achieve big in life, first one must dream big. In order to achieve a goal, one has to compare one's own achievements not to the people below you, but to those who are above you! In order to lift beyond mediocrity one has to see one self in excellence!
Being a pessimist yields nothing beyond mediocrity and I am becoming ever more convinced that the reason why our country has not been performing how it should had performed in the past 40 or so years since Trujillo has mostly been the result of our very own mind and habit of not thinking outside of the box. Of only thinking of what is real today, but not what it could become tomorrow!
As Dominicans with aspiration to give our children a better country than the one our parents left us, we must learn to aspire to greatness and dream big and compare our progress to those who are at the top! We must learn to see ourself as a rich nation, then the steps to such achievement will fall in place one at a time.
There is no security in this world, only opportunity. Let's not handicap ourselves once more by keeping our minds closed. Thinking beyond one's scope yields a level of ambition that would lead one to achieve a level of success you never thought possible!
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