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16 Reasons Why It’s So Important To Follow Your Dreams

By on March 17, 2012
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A Dream, a vision, a goal, a desire, these are all things most of us know we need when we are working towards success but have somewhere along the line, forgotten why it is so important we follow them through.

 

So I have created this list….. Well, lets call it a reminder of why it is so important to follow your dreams.

 

The 16 Reasons Why It Is So Important To Follow Your Dreams

 

1. The secret of living is giving, if you follow your dreams then you will have something worth sharing with others, hope, inspiration and a meaning to live, and that to me, is a great contribution.

2. Chasing your dreams will develop your courage. Courage is your fuel to achieve amazing success in life, follow your dreams and exercise courage. In sure enough time you will be unstoppable.

3. There is a reason why as kids we loved magic and dreams. Stop chasing your dreams and you will forget how it feels to live hopeful and young.

4. Great dreamers grow to be independent, learning that they can make a difference all by themselves.

5. Dreams can distract you from the negative events in life. You will weigh up what is more important, your dreams or the drama. Drama seems obsolete when you are passionate about following your dreams.

6. It gives you something to share and inspire your kids with, you have led by example that anything is possible when you put your mind to it.

7. Through accomplishing your dreams you will come to appreciate the experience of failure and know that failure is just part of success and that it wasn’t really all that bad as it was all worth it in the end.

8. Regret is a terrible thing, and a dream is powerful enough to bring you regret if you don’t take the chance to at least follow it.

9. Because you are never too old to dream. Age means nothing when we know what we want.

10. You become an interesting person, you show others you have meaning, direction and purpose.

11. The unknown of following your dreams may spark a little fear, this is okay though because a little fear is known to make you feel more alive.

12. It is fun proving the world wrong, so why would you follow the status quo?

13. The more you chase and accomplish your dreams the more the lines of the boundaries that the world puts in front of us fade, as we learn that any and everything is possible.

14. When you accomplish your dream, you are the first to see it happen. You can share your accomplishments with the rest of the world but you where there in the front row on a single chair to experience the magic that unfolded.

15. Your dreams have no limits, you are the creator of your dreams, big or small. When this is understood, you are able to design a way to favour you plan and accomplish your end goal.

16. A dream is strong enough to define you, once accomplished you prove to others they have no say in who you can and can’t be.

 

Never Give Up on Your Dreams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Article By: Joel Brown – Addicted2Success.com

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About The Author: Joel

Joel Brown is the CEO and Founder of Addicted2Success.com. With a long time passion for Entrepreneurship, Self development & Success, Joel started his website with the intention of educating and inspiring likeminded people all over the world to always strive for success no matter what their circumstances. Joel’s passion for what he does shows through the continual growth of Addicted2Success.com's online community. Follow Joel Brown on Twitter

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  1. Anna Watkins

    January 26, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    Thank you for a great article that reminds us of the importance of why we are doing what we do. No 1 especially spoke to me. Anna x

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  2. anica

    February 4, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    thanks for the advice.this is my first time of reading tthis and it is really encouraging.i intend using this advice to go for what i want because i am scared of facing anything in life especially my dream.

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  3. yonatan dawit

    February 14, 2013 at 8:37 am

    wow! every thing you said is true. i am currently in a law school, ethiopia. itts my second year but my dream is to be a movie director and producer. whenever i think of droping out it scares me to death because of my family’s expectations, the life condition…. i dont know what to do. but this is really inspiring. thanks.

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    • kalasia

      May 8, 2013 at 5:49 am

      I can totally relate! I also was in law school and pulled out at the end of second year to work and earn money for my family. Anyway, I worked and earned good money but it was soul destroying! It took my failed marriage to wake up and realise that I was failing in most areas of my life because I was not being true to myself and making choices to please everyone else. Now I am to broadcasting school next year. I am 38 – I wish I’d woken up and had the courage a very long time ago, but it doesn’t matter, lesson learned and no looking back now.

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  4. Jeannie

    March 16, 2013 at 11:22 pm

    What happens if going after your dreams means giving up the love of your life?

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    • Aurei

      April 23, 2013 at 2:28 pm

      If that person loved you they would understand and be with you the whole way. If not, I do not know what to tell you.

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  5. Mark Weeks

    April 5, 2013 at 5:27 am

    Another great article Joel. All so true, we should never give up.
    Dream, Explore and Discover is the essence of life.

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  6. aiden

    April 6, 2013 at 12:05 am

    Really great advice.
    I’m new to A2S but i love it already.

    Aiden

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    • Joel

      April 6, 2013 at 5:18 am

      Thank you Aiden, glad you love our work here mate!

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  7. dmv

    April 6, 2013 at 11:56 am

    i have tried to follow my dreams but they never worked out (the ones that were so important to me, would have made a tremendous, positive impact in my life and that I wanted so much) so I no longer have any. I wouldn’t even know how to develop them and am not sure I want to. I basically take life one day at a time. Realistically, now I know what is possible and likely to happen in my life (I am 58 now) and reality is nowhere close to what my hopes and dreams were. For a long time I lived a life of regret and disappointment (sometimes those feelings still creep in). That is less likely to happen when I just stay with reality and take it one day at a time. This is a fine article but not all of us have hopes and dreams. We have lived lives where reality and dreams have clashed; it hurts too much and therefore not possible.

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  8. dzeni dece

    April 8, 2013 at 8:54 am

    Hello there

    I definetely agree with all the quotes. Sixtheens of them are fantastic!
    dmv, only one thing, just visualise your dream and project all your LOVE towards it. The result will be amazing. Positivity!

    By the way, what is A25? Cheers!

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  9. Belinda Bekkers

    May 7, 2013 at 7:52 am

    Great article but I really hate that picture at the bottom. A rhino is beautiful as it is! We should not be teaching people to try and be something their not!

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