As an author who writes about the importance of pursuing your dreams, achieving your goals and doing what is right and good for you, this might seem a strange heading to begin with. But the rainbows I want you to hold back from are more the ones that promise everything but will give you nothing. They are the false hopes, the glittering shadows, the mirages that disappear as you walk toward them.
In this moment you have all you need to live a fulfilling life, but you might have forgotten this truth. It might be that you have the food you need, or the love, or the space to be yourself, or perhaps the opportunity to be creative, to express yourself. You know the truth of this right now.
There are so many attractive toys and trinkets and must-have items out there. Of course there are! But do you need them to make your life more complete in this very moment? I doubt it. Yes, they might make tomorrow look nicer and better, but you don't live in tomorrow, you have today.
Both in business and personal circles we see the time wasted by people chasing after the trophy goals and the prize items only to discover either that they reach them to understand they feel no different, or even worse - they acknowledge what they may have lost in a personal or human sense by relentless pursuit of the empty goal.
Get on with your life as it is right now. Consider the things that are important to you and the way you seek to live and to lead your own life. Take comfort from the fact that others have been this way before you, and that there is help at hand as you make your own way along the route that is right for you.
Look at the good friendships you do have, at the person who cares about you, at the people who respect you for something you have done or for a goal achieved.
Notice the achievements you had yesterday and the pleasure you felt at a kind act you did. Be aware of the gratitude that you received recently from someone for a simple gesture you made towards them.
All of these scenarios and more are true, reminding you of all the good that you already have and are able to receive now and always. Of course there are more great experiences and good things to be had, people to meet and connect with, and all of this will happen normally and within a timetable that will make itself known when the timing is right. You don't need to push or chase. Simply allow life to give you all the gifts it has for you and which you can accept in the moment.