10 Ways to Protect Your Dreams and to Live Your One Beautiful Life

Protect your dreams, your hopes, your future and everything you are and hope to be. It is OK to protect yourself from toxicity. We are not all at the same place in life. Sometimes we are not even on the same road with others. What matters is that we are on the road that is right for us. We have to protect our dreams. We have to protect them from negative people, negative news, and anything else that pulls us down. Dreams are fragile. And while we are learning to fly, we can be fragile.

“You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.” -Pursuit of Happyness

We are taught to be polite, to think of others. And this is great. We should most definitely be those things….to the degree that it does not become detrimental to us, keeping us from what we were meant to be, do, and accomplish.

And are we really helping the dream killers in our lives? Are they any better for having known us? Are they still mopey? Are they still negative and selfish?

Sure, it is possible that maybe you can help this person. Mostly likely not if they are a person who likes to destroy the dreams of others. But definitely not if you are just learning to soar yourself.  Chances are they will bring you down before you can help them. And then what will happen to the hundreds of other people you might have been able to really help had you followed your own road becoming the best version of yourself?

They are going to be so many people to help that actually want and need help.

Some people will want to  hold you back and keep you down. They don’t believe in dreams. They do not believe in their dreams, and they do not believe in yours. When we are just starting to fly, we may not be strong enough to fly with the weight of their heavy words, or even the heavy weight of the words in the barrage of bad news reports we hear day in and day out.

I remember a broker once telling us not to watch the news or read the newspaper. If we needed to know something, he would let us know. Extreme? Maybe. Maybe not. Facebook did a social experiment in 2012 that we just found out about this week. They controlled whether users saw positive or negative status updates from their friends to see if it had an affect on their own status updates. They found out that it did. What goes in, does indeed come out. What we surround ourselves with does have a physical impact on our lives and the person we become.

“You are the average of the five people that you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

Choose your people carefully.

10 Ways to Protect Your Dreams

1. Be careful with whom you share you dreams.  Never share them with someone who will not understand or who does not support and encourage you.  Guard your dreams as if their survival depends upon it. And sometimes it’s OK to not share it with anyone.
2. Choose your circle, your tribe, carefully. You might be destined to soar, but you may never do that if you hang with the wrong people. Find others, like yourself, who are doing what it takes to make their dreams come true.
3. Negative words have power. Make sure you are not sabotaging your own dreams and life with negative thoughts and words, and beware of others who speak negativity into existence with their words.
4. No matter how cool someone thinks it is to be mean, it’s not. These people are toxic. Avoid them. Mean people never make a great tribe. They eventually turn on each other.
5. It’s OK to say no. No, I am not able to meet up. No, I do not have time. No, I have other plans. No. Saying no do what you do not want in your life gives you more time to say yes to the things you do want, or to the things you want most.
6. Find like-minded souls on your journey, people who are positive, encouraging, and kind.
7. Write your dream down.
8. Make a vision board for your dream.
9. Make a plan to obtain your dream.
10. Limit negativity in your life as much as possible and vaccinate yourself against that which you cannot avoid.

We have this one precious life to live. Live your dreams. Be the person you were created to be. Protect that.  You don’t want to get to the end of your life and realized you let someone talk you out the life you were created to live, the mission you were called to do, the person you were created to be, or the dream you were meant to go after.

Protect your dreams.

 

Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.
― Joel Osteen