How You Can Chase Your Dreams, And Transform Your Life

I’m a very stubborn person, and because of that, I have a strong desire to be persistent and often refuse to give up. This is the case when I’m passionate about something.

In the long run, it’s a good thing, however, in the last two years, I’ve learned that I need to throw in the towel sometimes. When you chase your dreams, some won’t pan out, when you realize that, it’s a good idea to move on.

But the knowledge you gained will go with you still.

This desire to let go stemmed from analyzing my time and discovering how much I was wasting. When chasing your dreams it feels like nothing will stop you. However, you’ll always hit roadblocks and find things to slow you down.

How Do You Know When To Quit? Or when to Overcome?

I’m going to write in some generalizations here, hopefully, it’ll give you some focus and direction to make the right choices. First off, everyone is different, and every situation is different.

Whatever variables you’re looking at, they’re unique to you, however, overcoming the problems you face doesn’t have to be.

What Does It Mean To Chase Your Dreams?

You Should chase your dreams to see if you can do it. I don’t want to wake up 50 years from now and wonder what could’ve happened. So if I have something in my heart, and it’s just sitting there, it’s time to let things roll.

Chasing your dreams is knowing you can fail, and choosing to move forward.

When you chase your dreams you’ll need to be persistent. Persistence is what separates the people who fail from the ones who succeed.

What Is A Persistent Person?

I like to define a person who doesn’t give up, constantly fighting for their beliefs, projects, or people. To be persistent, when you chase your dreams you aren’t swayed by small problems, and always overcome the big ones.

When you persevere, you succeed.

Chase Your Dreams And Stay Persistent.

For the most part, I would say having a strong sense of persistence can be the driving force to chase your dreams. However, there are a few negatives involved with persistence.

  1. If You’re Not Careful, You Can Develop Tunnel Vision.
  2. Holding On Tight Can Bring Strong Emotional Attachments and It’ll Be Harder To Let Things Go If Failure Is Imminent.
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When You Chase Your Dreams You Can Develop Tunnel Vision

When people are focused on something, they tend to develop tunnel vision letting other areas of their life fall apart. When this happens it’s called tunnel vision.

Tunnel vision can be so negative that it takes your sight away from other important things in life. For an example we’ll go with an old stereotype:

The Business Man Who Works So Hard He Loses His Family.

This person is a hard-working person, they have a vision and desire to become better. Chances are they have that job to provide a life for their family. However, they focus so much on the job, that they forget the purpose of it.

It’s a sad story that happens all too often.

When You Chase Your Dreams You’ll Form Emotional Attachments

Sometimes we get focused and persistent on something and need to let go. A prime example of this comes from my own life. Almost 3 years ago I quit my job and went into entrepreneurship. I had 7 failed business plans in 2 years.

Most of them were due to too poor planning and too much excitement, and I lost a lot of money and time working on them. However, I learned quite a few skills in that period. In addition to that, I learned how to let things go, even if I was emotionally invested in the project.

The project in question was my Shopify store. I wanted that store to work, but ultimately it failed.

Sometimes you should throw in the towel.

What Are Some Benefits You Receive When You Chase Your Dreams?

I think there are a lot of benefits to this, however, there is risk involved, and you have to understand that. Below are things that can happen either way when you’re persistent and chasing your dreams.

  1. It Helps You Grow
  2. You See All Aspects Of The Project
  3. You Learn And Adapt To Make Things Work

I don’t know what else to write, being persistent is a good thing, but throwing in the towel has to be your choice.

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When Should You Throw In The Towel?

Throwing in the towel is metaphoric, but knowing when to throw it is a science. The phrase comes from boxing when the trainer throws a towel into the ring. It signals surrender, a term I don’t write about often. Sometimes you’ve gotta live to fight another fight, and the current one is something you can’t win.

When To Stop Chasing Your Dreams:

  1. A Project Has Become Too Costly
  2. It Will Take too much Time To Complete
  3. I’m Not Passionate About It
  4. There Is A Much Better Way

I need to throw in a disclaimer here, I’m writing about work and entrepreneurial pursuits. However, I’m only using these as examples. Feel free to reword the sentences to your situation.

I dated this girl once and things were going well. We were together for around 6 months and things were beginning to get serious. Then out of the blue, I started getting ghosted.

This was rough on me, it was one of my first real relationships, and I didn’t know what happened. However, looking back now I can tell you a few things.

  • I had tunnel vision – My other relationships (friends, family, etc.) suffered greatly.
  • The emotional attachments ran deep in my heart – I couldn’t help that, but I can choose to be a better person than I did.

Eventually, I chose to cut the relationship loose and let her go. it was a tough decision, but she’d already made her choice about me, and there was nothing I could do.

Stop Chasing Dreams, When Is The Time Is Right?

A few quick questions I ask when I start thinking about surrendering.

  1. What Amount Of Energy am I Putting Into This?
  2. How Much Time Have I Spent On This?
  3. Is It Worth It?
  4. What Are The Perceivable Benefits Of Accomplishing This?
  5. Is #4 Even Possible Anymore?
  6. If So, How Long Will It Take To Achieve, (Short/Long Guesstimate)
  7. Is This A Focus I Should Have? Or Should Something Else Take Precedence?

I’m pretty sure there are a few other questions to ask. However, these questions help me take an objective look at what I’m doing and help me make a focused decision about them.

Should You Chase Your Dreams Or Throw In The Towel?

Things will happen in life, and you aren’t responsible for what happens to you, however, you are responsible for how you react. That’s the only thing you have power over.

Being persistent is a great personality trait, however, you can’t allow it to give you tunnel vision. Because that will blind you to the world around you, and you’ll miss out on life.

Stick to your guns and chase your dreams and goals, and when it’s time to throw in the towel, see what you can learn from the situation. In that way, you didn’t fail, because something was learned.

And That Knowledge Will Help You In The Future.

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