Why “Follow your Dreams” is Terrible Advice

Dreams

Don’t listen to anyone who tells you to follow your dreams. Following my dreams led to years of frustration and dead-ends. My life improved when I gave up on my dreams.

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Big Dreams are for Disney

Dreams are important, but if you have more than one dream they compete with each other. I call this dream-jousting. My dreams created an impossible life for me: writing full time, travelling around so I could talk about my writing, running a ‘consulting‘ business (I had no idea what consulting even looked like), and living in a cabin in the mountains. True, there are some people who live like this, but for me living all my dreams would be exhausting. I would be too busy to live, too busy to earn the life-experience that I needed so that I have  something of value to write and talk about.

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