THEY WILL LAUGH AT YOUR DREAM UNTIL IT BECOMES REALITY

 THEY WILL LAUGH AT YOUR DREAM UNTIL IT BECOMES REALITY

I have this relative.

Older. Wiser (at least in his own eyes).

He has watched me grow up — literally watched me run around the street naked as a little child.

He knew my humble parents, knew our struggles, and quietly decided there was a limit to what I could ever become.

So, whenever I talked about my business, I noticed something interesting.

For example, if in a conversation I casually dropped, “My company is planning to do XYZ next quarter…”

He would give me a strange look. Or immediately change the topic.

It was subtle, but very telling.

In his mind, what company?

He probably thought, “Please, call it a small business. Or maybe don’t even bother adding ‘small’ — we all know it anyway.”

🌱 But in my mind, it was always a COMPANY.

Yes — even when all I had was two employees.

Even when we were operating out of a cramped space.

Even when cash flow was tight, mistakes were many, and progress was painfully slow.

That’s because I wasn’t building based on what people could see now. I was building based on what I could see in my mind.

So, I kept calling it a company.

I kept planning like it was a company.

I kept learning and working like I was running a serious, scalable company — even when outsiders would have laughed at me.

🚀 Then something started to happen.

Years later, the same relative got to know:

✅ How many people I had on my payroll.

✅ How much I was paying in monthly salaries.

✅ What our monthly revenues looked like.

Then he became curious.

Now he wanted to talk more about my company.

He started asking me questions like:

“How can I start something like this too?”

💔 Here’s the hard truth.

When you first share your dream, people will think you are out of your mind.

When you share it again, some may quietly start to hate you for it (remember Joseph in the Bible?).

When you pursue it year after year — and the results are still small — they will secretly laugh.

They won’t want to hear about how your little seed will one day become a giant tree.

No!

Don’t tell them you will become a millionaire.

Don’t tell them you will be a best-selling author.

Don’t tell them you will build a national brand.

Because what they see is the small you — and they believe that’s all you will ever be.

🎉 But when it finally works…

When your dream takes shape, when the numbers start to grow, when your brand starts getting recognition — Suddenly they will say:

“I have always known you would succeed.”

✍️ So what’s the point of this story?

Stop waiting for people to believe in your dream before you start.

You will wait forever.

Stop feeling sad because someone thinks you can’t amount to much.

That’s their limitation, not yours.

Build quietly.

Learn fiercely.

Work relentlessly — even in secret.

Because one day, you will become exactly what you said you would become.

And they will be shocked.

Then they will want you to teach them how to do it too.