Stop Telling Your Big Dreams to Small Minded People .....

Too many of us share our dreams and aspirations with the wrong people. DO NOT share your big dreams with small minded people. No matter how hard you try to sell your dreams to them, they just will never get it. Their small minds cannot just comprehend the materialization of your big dream. It’s beyond their imagination. No matter how hard they try, they simply can’t see past their little imaginations.

When Suzan was in her final year in the university, she developed a strong love for makeup artistry. While she took normal college classes on weekdays, she will travel on weekends to Lagos for makeup class.  Although the makeup industry in Nigeria back then was still at its very early stage, she saw a career for herself in makeup artistry. She excitedly shared her dream with some small minded folks. Oh no! She wasn’t expecting their negative reactions. Like my Naija people would say – “She never Hespererit”. Supposed friends made comments such as “You can never build a career as a makeup artist, not here in Nigeria”. “How many people would be willing to pay a makeup artist for their

 wedding” “What is so difficult in applying makeup by yourself” “You are wasting your time and money”. . .  These people just didn’t get it. Suzan went for her dreams and currently runs her makeup studio - FaceCraft by Suzie.

Small minded people see impossibility in everything. They are too scared to dream big for fear of failure. They would rather stick to the status quo – their comfort zone. Unfortunately, they need company, so they try to convince others to come sit with them.  There is a reason your dream is yours and yours alone. God gave it to you and not to them. No matter how hard you try to convince the small minded folks, it’s a task in futility. They just won’t get it.

Omolabake Bode-Matthew, CEO, Fontaine De Vie shared a very inspiring story at the “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Boss” Conference. She told of how she shared her business idea and dream with her father, who immediately caught the dream and then started envisioning how much she could grow the business to compete with the big players already in the market.

 He was already seeing the growth of the business years ahead, including structures, infrastructures and resources that will be needed. I tell you, it takes a great mind to think like this.

When you share your dreams with great minds, they will enlarge it for you. They will help magnify the possibility of success. Even when fear and uncertainty sets in, they will lend you their wings to fly. They will help you see through their own eyes the certainty of success.

Be careful who you share your dreams. Identify the naysayers and blacklist them in your “no-sharing” list. Identify your dream builders and keep them very close.

 Never share your big dreams with small minded people!

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