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Dreams are not plans
You must make your own.
Everyone’s done those personality tests to see whether they’re an ENTJ or a INJF. Most of you have probably also done those tests to see which House of Hogwarts you belong to.
Over the years I’ve taken a variety of these tests, and they often tell me that I have leadership and visionary qualities. I partly believe what they tell me, and look at ways in which I can actually deliver these qualities well, and to people who actually want them.
You see, I’ve also been told that I like to ‘voluntell’ people. That basically means that people volunteer for jobs, not out of their freewill, but because I signed them up. Most of the time they enjoy the experience, however other times I lead them to water and shove them right in.
Unfortunately when it comes to other people’s dreams, you cannot voluntell them so much, and over the past decade I have seen my leadership and visionary skills fail time and time again. It goes something like this.
I have this dream..
Someone will come to me and share a dream with me. It might be something huge like going to the moon, or something smaller like visiting a cousin in America.
At first there’s the gauging of what I think of their dream, does it sound stupid, unrealistic or…
