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It surprises me that so many people want to ignore, deny or sabotage their dreams.

Here are Some Ways to Kill Your Dreams…

• Pretend you don’t know what your dreams are.

• Brainwash yourself into thinking you are not good enough to ever achieve your dreams.

• Keep your habit of impulse buying so you can tell others you don’t have enough money to go for your dreams.

• Wait for the perfect time to start working on your dreams, maybe after the kids are grown, or when you have all the bills paid off.

• Don’t share your dreams with anyone so you can avoid having anyone support or help you achieve your dreams.

• Get busy with pleasing other people, instead.

• Keep your office, home and life full of clutter to hide your imagination.

• Do lots of activities you’ll later feel guilty about.

• Doubt yourself and your abilities a lot.

• Tailor your entire life so you stay in your comfort zone.

• Focus entirely on quick fixes instead of achieving long-term goals.

• Use problems, either yours or others, as your only topic of conversation.

Can you think of other ways to Kill your Dreams?

Others quizzes, articles and blogs you might be interested in are:

Quiz: How Ready are You to Get your Dreams?

12 Benefits of Not Going After your Dream Job

Do You Know What your Dreams Are?

Five Mindsets that Sabotage your Dreams

or check out Vickie’s entire About Life in General section.

You can also Contact Vickie Champion for a complimentary coaching and consulting session.

Everyone says go for your dreams.  But if you haven’t first dealt with your sabotaging beliefs, your dreams will stay at the starting gate instead of manifesting in your life.

Here are 9 Good Reasons to Keep Your Dreams on the Back Burner-

I believe…

• My dreams aren’t really that important.
• It takes money to achieve my dreams.
• I don’t have time to pursue my dreams.
• It’s more difficult to go for my dreams because I have a family.
• If I achieve my dreams, my relationships will change for the worse.
• If I attempt to get my dreams and don’t succeed, I’ll feel like a failure.
• I’ll wait and go for my dreams when I solve my money problems.
• The closer I get to achieving my dreams, the more responsibility I’ll have.
• If I accomplish my dreams, I’m afraid I won’t be happy.

If you really want to take your dreams seriously, you must change those limiting thoughts.

If you want to know if you are ready to get your dreams, take Vickie Champion’s QUIZ.

It’s easy to put your dreams on the back burner during these hard times. Maybe you’ve used the excuse that you need to figure out how to pay the bills this month, get a job or keep the job you have.

But have you ever considered that part of the reason we’re having this economic crisis in the first place is because millions of us have put our dreams on the back burner?

I’ve got a NEW quiz on my website, Are You Ready to Get Your Dreams. See how you score!

Most people do not realize or consider the emotional and practical impact fear has on our daily lives and businesses. Yet fear impacts everything from our personal relationships to our self-esteem to our health and that of our company’s bottom line.

Think fear is your own private, locked-away misery? Let’s consider all the ways that fear is cutting you off from your intuition, sacrificing your happiness and causing conflict in your life right now?

FEAR CAN CAUSE US TO…

1. Not pursue our DREAMS or not know what our DREAMS are
2. Feel LOUSY
3. Not SLEEP well
4. Have CONFLICT with others
5. Stay overly BUSY
6. Be easily DECEIVED by others
7. Stop making DECISIONS
8. Make SACRIFICES to please someone
9. Become PARALYZED
10. Turn into PERFECTIONISTS
11. DEFLECT gifts or compliments from others
12. Become upset over CHANGE
13. Spend a lot of time putting out FIRES
14. DEPRIVE ourselves of the thing we want
15. JUDGE others
16. APOLOGIZE for our actions when no apology is needed
17. Be UNPLEASANT to be around
18. Get DISTRACTED easily
19. Become ILL
20. COMPLAIN
21. Use food, smoking, exercise, work or anything else to RELIEVE stress
22. PROCRASTINATE
23. Do things only out of OBLIGATION
24. DEFEND our decisions
25. Feel INTIMATED when we’re around others
26. Feel our REPUTATION is overly important
27. Avoid being around NEGATIVE people
28. Feel EXHAUSTED
29. AVOID discussing misunderstandings
30. Not APPRECIATE what we have
31. Become GREEDY or selfish
32. Find it difficult to get rid of our THINGS
33. Shrink from PROMOTING ourselves, our ideas or our products
34. Feel HOPELESS
35. Talk about our PROBLEMS all the time to anyone who will listen
36. Try to IMPRESS others
37. Have a hard time saying “NO”
38. Block our INTUITION

Without fear we could hear our intuition every minute of the day. Without fear we could have the perfect job. Without fear we could have pleasant relationships with everyone we meet. Without fear we could get crystal clear on what our dreams really are. Without fear we would have great self-esteem. Without fear we could be HAPPY.

It’s easy to get distracted just trying to earn a living, and put your dream job on the back burner. We can use several excuses; the economy is in crisis, I’m lucky to have a job, I don’t know what my dream job is, I don’t have the money to get retrained, or I’m waiting until my children graduate from high school. No matter what the excuse or excuses are, there are added benefits to it.

Here are Some of the Benefits of Not Going After
Your Dream Job

You can…

1. Spend endless hours daydreaming about winning the lotto and quitting your job.
2. Live for the weekends.
3. Save money by not hiring a life coach or career coach.
4. Keep believing security and the money are more important than enjoying life.
5. Get your thrills from putting out fires instead of seeking your dream job.
6. Look forward to retirement and growing old.
7. Continue to complain rather than take responsibility for your life.
8. Stay in your comfort zone.
9. Save time and the hassle of trying to listen to your intuition.
10. Use the stress at work as an excuse for a shopping spree or that extra scoop of ice cream.
11. Live through others’ dreams because you have none of your own.
12. Focus on finding things that are wrong and fixing them rather than work on achieving your dreams.

If you are waiting for the perfect time, it will never come.  It’s NOW.  Just drop the excuses and start!

For more information on jobs, check out Vickie Champion’s Article Use Your Intuition to Find the Perfect Job in a Down Economy!

You can contact Vickie Champion for a complimentary coaching and consulting session.