Like this:

You’re the undiscovered gold mine . . . exclusively in your own mind so far.   You’ve been working hard to see your vision come to pass.  You’ve cut off relationships that are dead-weights to your goals and aspirations.  You’ve also clarified those goals: both long and short term.  You’ve even read all the self-help books and traveled to seminars to find the newest granule of wisdom that will give you the mental stamina to keep going down that lonely and dark path dreamers have long walked on.  Your family may not mock you but maybe they just hold that indifferent stare when you speak of your vision: almost amused by your stubborn refusal to quit on your dream.  They would want you to conform to the rest of normal society and become an office lackey, toiling long hours for not just peanuts but for the shells of peanuts.  While this may work for some it does not work for you.  Your a wild-heart, a stallion without reins, and now you’ve taken the leap of faith and you find yourself plunging off the canyon, plummeting to a crash landing of “I told you so’s” . . . things don’t look good.

Yet despite the tidal wave of doubt rising above you, you choose to dream on, working everyday faithfully on your vision, feeding yourself daily with daydreams of what it might be when you finally make it big.  You’ve realized that blabbering your dream to every living soul within an eight mile radius is not the wisest thing: the last thing you need is more doubt hampering your mind or even worse . . . an idea-thief.  So you guard your intellectual-baby, feeding it with hope, watching movies like, “The Pursuit of Happyness,” for the umpteenth time, reading Norman Vincent Peal and quoting Og Mandino like he’s your long lost daddy.  You do this because you don’t want your baby to die.  If this idea dies: if this dream does not last this long winter of discontent, a part of you will die too.

The problem is that the rejections are piling up and now your spirit is pulling out the white flag, begging for respite from all of this slavery to “needless” affirmation.  How can you overcome this dream-killing perfect storm?

It’s really pretty simple.

You have to realize the small number of people that need to believe in your dream.  While it is good to have support from your family and friends to help you along your journey, please don’t forget that what you are looking for in essence is one decision-maker who would be willing to take the chance on you.

That’s it.

You don’t need affirmation from the whole world, just one special person.  The sad reality of dream-building is that we live in a world choc full of self-absorbed people with their own agendas.  Don’t expect for everyone to respect or care for your vision . . . look for those special few who have the influence and resources to unlock it’s potential and put it on display in front of the world.

Find that one person, and until then, above all, be that one person.

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