Give your dream a louder voice than the dream critics

​I've been reminded this week just how blessed I am to get to do the work I get to do. I've been spending the week with two beautiful co-trainers and 18 trainees who are all mutually passionate about healing the hurts in a hurting world.

Not every singled day do I say "I can't believe I get paid to do this" - but I've said it this week.

I say it many days, actually.

I haven't always been great at chasing dreams. I suppose because I used to live in a dream cycle that went something like this.

Dream. Have dream criticized. Quit.

Then one day I realized something. If a dream was worth dreaming, it was worth chasing. If a dream was worth dreaming, it was worth surrounding yourself with people who lift dreams and not shoot them down. If a dream was worth dreaming, it was worth giving that dream the biggest voice of them all.

Certainly a bigger voice than dream critics.

If you have a dream on your heart today, listen to the dream. And when you speak it out, and it is met by the voices of naysayers - and keep in mind, you may be the biggest naysayer of them all - turn up the volume on that dream.

Give that dream a voice. Give that dream the loudest voice!

Maybe the dream won't come true, but let the dream tell that story, not dream critics.