What people think about you and the possibility for your dreams is none of your business. History is being read but it is also written by people with imagination. It is necessary you take responsibility for it in the sense that you make it happen, that you don't give up, that you don't take objection or disappointment or defeat personally, that you keep on keeping on, that you don't decide that you can't make it because you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, that you realize that it is part of the program.
As a physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so can the man of weak thoughts make his thoughts strong by exercising himself in right thinking and to put away endlessness and weakness. To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainments.
To make all conditions to think strongly, attempt fearlessly and accomplish masterfully. He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little, he who would achieve much must sacrifice much, he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
What are you going to do starting tomorrow that will make a difference? Major step to human progress is discipline. If its one thing to get excited over, that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things. It is hard, yes its hard and we will do it hard, and once we do it hard, we go through, we will realize it was worth it, and once we discover it was worth it, IT IS DONE. Study the things that could change your economic, social, spiritual and personal life. See, you don't want to wind up at the end of your life only to discover you have lived one tenth of it.