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In order to keep dreaming, you need to surround yourself with other dreamers. Find people who will walk alongside you and remind you of your dream when setbacks make you want to forget. Keep company with people who inspire you to dream and breathe encouragement into your vision—people who will keep you on course.

Winston Churchill, the Nobel Prize–winning, twice-elected wartime prime minster of the United Kingdom, wasn’t always as well regarded as he is today. In fact, he struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. Later, he faced many years of political failures until he finally became the prime minister at the ripe old age of sixty-five. Churchill was a dreamer—he dreamed of making a difference in his nation. And when he finally got elected to office, he credited his wife of almost thirty-two years for continuously dreaming along with him and believing in him, despite his failures and the financial hardship and public ridicule they endured. Clementine Churchill is not often spoken of, but history may never have recorded her husband’s achievements without her support of his dreams.

Who is cheering you on? Who is offering you consolation in the form of encouragement while your dreams are yet to be realized?

Being around other dreamers is a catalyst for dreaming bigger. Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (KJV) or “cast off restraint” (NIV11). The New Living Translation says they “run wild.” The Message translates it like this:

If people can’t see what God is doing,

they stumble all over themselves;

But when they attend to what he reveals,

they are most blessed.

A dream will indeed cause you to sacrifice and make the hard choices, but perhaps more importantly, it will also cause you to choose your friends wisely. Who are you dreaming alongside?