I have a dream

One of the most powerful speeches of the last century was delivered on the 28^th of August, 1963 by Martin Luther King, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. Martin Luther King stood up for his dream and he didn’t allow his dream to be crushed. How utterly inspiring!

What about our dreams, though? Many warning words have been written about friends and family trying to crush our dreams. The danger of words like “do you REALLY want to do this” or “do you really THINK you can do this” is well documented.

The best known remedy for those friends and family members is secrecy; not talking about your dream when being asked, or giving a vague answer following a question about them.

But the bigger danger lies within us. Yes, we have the capacity to crush our dreams all on our own, without even needing the help of our friends and family. And most of the time it is not obvious to us. It creeps up as if we have Guerrilla warfare within us.

So how do we do this? The most common way is by not believing in ourselves: by thinking of our dream and in the next instance, doubting if we can do it or whether we are good enough. Seeing ourselves achieving or creating what we want and then saying words like, “do you really THINK you can do this” is akin to taking whiteout and overwriting our dream. If we are lucky, the layer of whiteout isn’t thick enough and our dream still shines through. But what would happen if we do this often enough?

Not Believing in yourself can stop you from achieving your dreams. It is limited thinking; and therefore they are call Limiting Beliefs. And YES, you can lose your Limiting Beliefs. You can get rid of them. And YES, you can also scrape off the layers of whiteout that have accumulated on top of your dreams.

And YES you can Ask me if you want to know how.