5 Ways to Protect the Dream That God Placed in Your Heart to Build!

It’s an exciting opportunity when you decide that you want to step into the journey of entrepreneurship.  It’s quite normal to want to share your news of becoming an entrepreneur, and the dream that was placed in your heart with everybody everywhere you go.  But the truth of the matter is that you shouldn’t. Why? Because you will find that everyone will not be happy for you.

In fact, you may encounter that those people that are most close to you will be the ones that will try to hurt and discourage you by corrupting, distracting, and hindering you from your dream.  Some will say that your dream isn’t possible because it’s stupid.  So I like to call these people naysayers and dream killers.

I see only one benefit of a naysayer and dream killer which is the opportunity to prove to yourself that you can achieve what they said you couldn't, and in the process they get to be proved as wrong.  These folks are the ones who fuel your fire especially in those moments when you feel like you want to stop, but you remember them saying that your dream isn't possible so you keep going.  Stopping is not an option.  The dream that you are carrying is bigger than you as well as your naysayers.  So you have to do it because so many other people are relying on you so they can achieve their dreams.

Here are five ways to protect the dream that God placed in your heart to build your business as you take steps each day to close the gap of getting there.

1.  BE SELECTIVE & INCLUSIVE.  BE CAUTIOUS WITH WHOM YOU SHARE YOUR DREAM.

You must understand that the DREAM that you carry was given to YOU! So be selective and inclusive with whom you share your DREAM.  Everyone will not understand it or believe in it, but there will be others that will; either way YOU should be cautious with whom YOU share your DREAM.  Realize that everyone will not care about your DREAM nor be happy for YOU; in fact, YOU will find that some of the people that are most close to YOU are DREAM killers.  Yes, that’s right sometimes your family, friends, and others close to you may be SECRET haters, negative, jealous, and envious.  It’s not because you’ve done anyone wrong.  It’s because these individuals lack the clarity and direction about the vision for their own future.  Instead of them seeking direction for their own DREAM they’re on a mission to assassinate yours.

2.  ONLY SHARE YOUR DREAM WITH A SMALL INNER CIRCLE OF OF TRUSTED AND QUALIFIED ADVISORS.

Communicate your DREAM to colleagues and advisors that you really trust. This includes people with wisdom, experience, and expertise who YOU can support and will support YOU! Only communicate with people who have expressed a sincere desire to support your journey even if that requires you to hire a mentor or business coach.  You also want to share your DREAM with your best friends, business colleagues, and spiritual advisors.  Most importantly before you elevate anyone as a trusted advisor it’s imperative that these folks share the same values as you, they respect your privacy, demonstrate professionalism and business acumen, they have and demonstrate integrity and good character, and overall is able to demonstrate they have a positive track record.   Their references should be able to back up what they say if they've worked with them long enough.

“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” – Proverbs 11:14
King David said it best, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful” – Psalm 1:1

3.  SHARE YOUR DREAM WITH THREE TYPES OF SUPPORT THAT ARE CRITICAL IN HELPING YOU TO FOCUS, WHILE YOUR DREAM YIELDS PROFITS.

Strategic Support or Short Support:
This type of support often comes from working with a business or success coach. This type of support will help YOU learn the business strategies and shortcut your learning curve to move your business farther and faster.  You can also receive assistance from reading books, listening to CDs, watching DVDs, and attending and participating in results based coaching programs and masterminds.  Find the people who can support YOU, and provide YOU with the results that you want!

​Emotional Support:
You need to have ongoing encouragement and acknowledgement from people that  BELIEVE in your vision.  Ask for what you want! You need other people (NOT only your spouse) to remind you of your GREATNESS. You also need a team of people who are going to be great coaches and cheerleaders to YOU when you hit a rough patch.  YOU need people around you that will help you to coast and stretch yourself when things are challenging.  This is so significant to your success!

Support with Details:
This type of support may include a Personal Assistant or Virtual Assistant.  This support allows you to focus on what you’re truly good at, income earning tasks and activities, and then delegate the details and busy tasks that will not help you earn income like administrative activities (including house work, picking up the cleaners, cooking, grocery, bookkeeping, mailing out flyers, answering emails) the goal here is to trade your low income activities to high-income activities.

4. CREATE A CIRCLE OF TRUSTED ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS.

When protecting your DREAM, you need accountability partners.  Essentially you convey your DREAM to your accountability partners, ask them to remind you of what you’re focused on and ask them to support you! You want a support team that can pour into you so you can poor back into them.  Let your team know why you’re doing what you’re doing, and let them know that you need them as your support system so they can keep you focused and on track.

Your accountability partners can be your personal Board of Directors.  Keep in mind that they can make you or break you.  They will give you so much insight that will prevent you from experiencing a lot of pain and help you to achieve more than what you ever could on your own.  They will speak life into you and over your business, and be your  protection because they pray for you.  These people will celebrate you with honesty and integrity!

Your accountability partners may be:
Business Coaches, Mentors, Spiritual Advisors, Business Colleagues, Financial Advisors, and Prayer Partners

5. DON’T SEEK APPROVAL FROM OTHERS.

In protecting your DREAM you must remember that you don’t need anyone's approval!
You were given the DREAM – not others – but YOU! To share your uniqueness with the world!
It’s important that you carry out your DREAM.  Don’t be afraid to invest the time and work that will elevate your business for success.  As I’ve said before challenges will come, but it is how you handle and navigate through them is what make you into the person you were meant to become!

There are always going to be naysayers and those that don’t get what you’re doing, and there are going to be your community and tribe that love and support YOU in the work that you’re doing.  

Don’t give up no matter what; you have to know that your service to others are changing lives, and it’s helping you to evolve into a better YOU!  So there you have it my five ways that you can protect the dream that God placed in your heart to build your business so that you can impact people doing what it is that you love most.
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With Your Success In Mind,


​Cynthia Lewis