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Perhaps you know the story of the Olympic swimmer, Pablo Morales. Pablo won so many gold medals in Los Angeles that he was nicknamed “The Golden Boy” for the then upcoming Seoul Olympics.

To everyone’s dismay, he lost his qualifying trials and he never even made it to the Games. He was so dejected that he quit swimming, enrolled in Cornell Law School and forgot about his dream.

Three years went by. Then one day, his passion was re-ignit- ed, he got that old chlorine itch and put himself back into the pool, just one year before the Barcelona Olympics. He trained like crazy, made it to the Games and went on to win the gold. When you hit an obstacle, be like Pablo and get back into the pool. Be unstoppable and go for the gold.

When the road looks too steep, or even when the rewards seem too great, we sabotage the dream. Time and again we kill off the dream before we ever fully explore the possibilities of making the dream come true.

Big dreamers, people who make things happen, don’t do this. They hang in there. They explore. They take risks. The flip side of this is finding all the reasons not to move to the next step. I have learned over the years if there is something I really want and nothing is happening on it, or my project isn’t moving forward, I have learned to become suspicious. The person I become suspicious of is me. I ask myself, “What am I doing or believing, that is keeping me stuck?”

The problem in sabotaging or killing off our dreams is that it is life threatening. At a certain point after all your dreams are dead, what’s the use living? Okay, it’s an extreme thought but I had to get your attention. We have become a nation of dream killers, saboteurs of our lifeline and it needs to stop. We can stop this genocide by being able to clearly identify when we are doing our dream in.