Your dreams are pretty powerful…but only if you allow them to be. That’s why I want to do a small series of posts on really going after what you’ve always been dreaming about.
Unfortunately all too often there are certain factors that keep us from following or pursuing our dreams. The first of these is the dreams of someone else.
Hopefully, you were raised in a home that dreaming was encouraged, and nurtured and cultivated as your own. But this is often not the case. Parents are living out their dreams through their children…or realism is far outweighing the opportunity to chase after the dreams of our young people.
In these formative years, people lose touch with their emerging identity (who they are and what they desire to do) and they adopt the desires of someone else’s heart. This is most often to gain approval, or because there are just a perceived lack of options.
If you’re able to dig yourself out of someone else’s dream, there is one vital aspect I need you to do for me: I need you to own it! Quit trying to please the person that has talked you out of pursuing your passion! You’ll never be able to achieve a dream that you don’t own!
So quit wishing…and quit waiting…let’s work on our dreams together! No more excuses…like:
“Dreams don’t come true for ordinary people”
“If the dream isn’t big, it isn’t worth pursuing”
“Now is not the right time to pursue my dream”
So I need you to drop the facade…bet on yourself…and lead your life instead of just accepting it the way it is…
Your dream is not your parents dream…it’s yours. You may succeed if no one else believes in you, but you’ll never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.
So all this to say: when the dream is right for the person, and the person is right for the dream…it’s pretty unstoppable.
Go chase your dreams!
God Bless,
ABB