Dream Stealers: How to Protect Your Dreams

Your 5 Biggest Dream Stealers + Helpful Tips to Protect Your Dreams

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Do you have any dreams or aspirations? To avoid wasting your time, this is for anyone who has a dream, but hasn’t seen it happen. According to hospital caregivers, the most common regret many have on their death bed is failure to achieve their dreams. There’s an army of men and women who dreamed of the most wonderful things you can ever imagine. Yet they took the wonderful dreams to the grave with them. Why? The dream stealers.

These deadly beasts will rip your dreams away from you mercilessly in broad daylight. Beware! Life’s too short to have your dreams stolen from you.

Would you like to know your 5 biggest dreams stealers and how you can protect your dreams from being stolen?

Unfortunately, majority of people will never figure this out until it’s too late. So you’re definitely among the lucky few if you’re reading this now.

What dreams and aspirations do you wish for the most?

Big or small, if you can dream it, you can achieve it. Right now, nothing matters like what you dream of the most. And my goal is to get you from conception to realization of your dreams safely.

But first, you need to know that dream stealers exist and they are the reason you are still where you have always been for years.

Related: 3 Surprising Things that Destroy Your Creativity

What are your 5 biggest dream stealers?

Dream Stealers: Do you have any dreams or aspirations? To avoid wasting your time, this is for anyone who has a dream, but hasn't seen it happen. According to hospital caregivers, the most common regret many have on their death bed is failure to achieve their dreams. There's an army of men and women who dreamed of the most wonderful things you can ever imagine. Yet they took the wonderful dreams to the grave with them. Why? The dream stealers.

1. Self-doubt

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”   

– Suzy Kassem

Self-doubt subjects you to thinking too small. And thinking small makes you act below your potential.

Have you or anyone you know ever uttered any of these statements:

  • “I’m not as skilled as those other successful people.“
  • “I’m too young to do…” or “I’m too old to…”
  • “I’m not tall enough, good enough, smart enough, connected enough…

Above all, self-doubt will keep you stuck living a completely opposite life from the life you dream of.

2. Negative Thinking

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.“

– Robert H. Schuller

Negative thinking can screw you up big time. It’s really fascinating. Every negative thought you have about yourself holds you back from the life you desire. Holding onto negative beliefs, ideas or opinions of others can be very detrimental to your dreams and aspirations.

Here’s a story of negative thinking robbing someone of their dreams:

A college student was known for always complaining bitterly about his professor. He was fond of arguing with the professor in class over menial matters to the extent that he stopped attending lectures. As a result, he received a poor grade in the class. The bad grade meant he had to drop out of the dean’s list and lose his scholarship. Since there was no longer college funding, the last resort was to drop out of college. For this student, being the first in his family to graduate college became a pipe dream.

Unfortunately, it turns out that he already had a negative notion of the professor long before he even encountered the professor. He felt that the professor was snobbish, unresponsive and rude to students. And he hated these attributes so bad.

Basically, the student’s notion was formed at a college party where he overhead one of his fraternity brothers talking to others about how the same professor never answered questions from students. The part he missed was where his fraternity brother explained that the professor forgot his hearing aid that day.

Like a cage, negative thinking will keep you trapped from reaching your dreams.

3. Fear

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

– Jack Canfield

Interestingly, some people have lost their dreams not because of failure but fear. Fear, especially, fear of the unknown has robbed millions of people of their dreams.

What do your fear the most that is holding you back from the life you dream of? The thing you fear controls you and stops you from doing what you are capable of. Fear can give you heart attacks, age you, kill your hope and paralyze you from even thinking of your dreams.

Actually, your dreams are standing with arms wide open on the other side of the bridge you fear.

4. Instant Gratification

“The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.”

– Mike Dooley

According to Simon Sinek – transformational speaker and author of ‘Start with Why‘ – “we live in a world of instant gratification“. Instant gratification is a very dangerous dream stealer. While you’re gaining pleasure at the moment, your dreams, goals, targets and vision are quietly escaping from you.

In this day and age, everything is on our finger tips. With your phone you have mostly anything you want on-demand.

Here’s what the world we live looks like now: Feeling like having sex or cheating on your partner? You head over to one of the hook up websites. Want some cheese cake? You order and have it delivered in minutes. Can’t wait for the latest iPhone? You pre-order and pay online. Want those shoes you saw on Instagram? You order right away with your Amazon prime account to have it shipped instantly!

All along forgetting that the more you seek to have it all now, the more you suffocate your dreams and ambitions. And one day you wake up with your marriage gone, bankruptcy filings and missed golden opportunities.

5. Laziness

“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.“

-Mortimer Caplan

Truth be told, laziness has stolen countless careers, relationships, businesses, futures and even lives. When you are no longer willing to put in effort, your dreams become bankrupt.

For instance, you got into college with a dream to graduate with the highest honors (summa cum laude) and land the best offer in your dream career.

However, you slacked throughout college because you just procrastinated and slouched when you were supposed to be studying. Knowing fully well that get an offer in your desired field requires a stellar performance yet you still chose to be lazy with your academics.

Now, you’re stuck at a dead-end job you hate because you failed to work hard in college. Your dream has robbed by laziness!

Related: How to Set Ambitious Goals and Achieve Them Easily

How to Protect Your Dreams from Dream Stealers:

Protect Your Dreams

What can you do TODAY to move closer to your dreams and aspirations in life? While the aforementioned things can steal your dream, I strongly believe that you can take back charge and achieve your dreams.

Here are some simple yet powerful tips to protect your dreams from dream stealers:

Tip #1: Overcoming Self-doubt

A big antidote for self doubt is doing things that build your confidence regardless of size. Often times, you have to start by just taking little steps which eventually help boost your confidence.

Additionally, any of the following will help you banish your self-doubt:

You have the power to reclaim your dreams from self-doubt. For magic tips on quickly overcoming your self-doubt check out this post.

Tip #2: Beating Negative Thinking

To achieve your dreams and aspirations you will need to change the way you think. Rather than dwell in negative thoughts, speak your dreams to life through positive affirmation.

Given that negative thinking mostly fuels from frustration, anger or rejection, use these emotions to channel positivity into your life.

In addition, do any or all of these:

  • Listen to positive podcasts
  • Read this book: The Power of Positive Thinking
  • Get the right mentor (Also, check out the post on the 3 Most important People You Need to Succeed)

Tip #3: Defeating Fear

What makes you afraid? To defeat your fear, you must first identify what you are really scared of. Then take action. By taking action you face your fear.

Remember, David would have never killed Goliath the giant and set his people free if he ran away from Goliath.

To truly live and fulfill your dreams you have to feel the fear and do ‘it’ anyways.

Related: How to Crush Devastating Obstacles in Your Life

Tip #4: Crushing Instant Gratification

First, you need to set clear boundaries in various areas of your life. Next, discipline yourself to always focus on the big picture. Instead of focusing on short-term things, focus on the future. There are plenty of benefits when you do this. Check out: Why You Should Focus on the Future.

Here’s a few rules you should abide by:

  • just because I can have it right now, doesn’t mean I should.
  • my dreams and goals come before ‘stuff‘
  • sleep over big purchases, cravings or decisions
  • no emotional decisions (Check out this article on emotional decisions)

Tip #5: Destroying Laziness

After all is said and done, you can’t actualize your dreams without putting in the work. Without a doubt, your biggest dream stealer is laziness. Whether you motivate yourself to the max or think as positive as you want, without diligence, your dreams will not come to fruition.

Like Nike says, “Just do it.” You don’t have to think about it twice. The more you sit on your dreams and do nothing, the farther and farther your dreams will move away from you.

Another effective hack is to surround yourself with people who are extraordinary achievers. Rather than feel intimidated, reach out to more high achievers and mix up with them. Check out: 5 Powerful Ways to Connect with Highly Successful People if you need some magic tips on doing this easily.

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