Are The People You Love Stealing Your Dreams?
Sometimes you have to keep your ideas to yourself.
You come up with an amazing idea or a goal that you are excited about. You immediately want to share it with a loved one. Someone who supports you, someone who has your back.
You begin to tell the person your thoughts, feelings, etc. You even have a step-by-step plan on how you will go about achieving your goal. At first, your person will tell you how great your idea sounds. They will tell you how much they admire you.
Then, they will begin to pepper you with questions, saying things like “Have you really thought this over?” Or the evergreen “I just want to make sure you know what you are getting into” part of their speech. By the time they are finished with you, you’re second-guessing yourself. You can’t believe how dumb your dream is now that you’ve said it out loud.
Mind you, your person(s) may not have deliberately said these things to discourage you, they sincerely love you and believe they’re successfully advising you. You have, however, been successfully knee-capped. Now that your enthusiasm for your goal has been stolen, you feel deflated. Your mindset may be to put your dream upon the shelf, on the back burner, or wherever it is people keep their dreams. You will revisit it later. Much, much later. Another dream deferred.
