Have you ever heard of dreamstealers?
These are people who try to talk you out of pursuing your dream.
And they can be found everywhere…
Some of them are your most well-meaning friends and family. Sometimes they are only trying to protect you from their own fears and self-limiting perspective. So, you need to be on your guard.
Here are some hints on how you can protect your dream from being stolen from you:
1. Don't tell your dream to anyone
Sometimes it pays to acts as if you have nothing going. It saves you a lot of time and energy. Also, you excuse yourself less and thrush yourself forward more.
2. Choose the right people to tell your dream
Not everyone needs to hear your dream. Only those that will give you direction, guidance you and sound advice need to hear your dream, especially when it's still just an idea.
3. Be able to distinguish between genuine advice and mere discouragement
Sometimes your dreams are mere fantasies. You may need someone to tell you but it has to be handled properly.
4. Always be on your guard
You may have been a bad judge of character and shared your dream to the wrong person. Create for yourself a mechanism by which you are able to distinguish between genuine advice and mere discouragement
5. Know yourself
Do you really see yourself accomplishing your dream? Or it is a mere fantasy that you have?
6. Know God
Are you sure your dream is from God?
7. Look up to God
Regardless of what everyone else might say, know that your dream is going to pass because God is involved in your dream.
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