"Steemit Engagement Challenge S13W1- “"What obstacles have you faced/facing to fulfill your dream?"

Hello my friends, trust that you are doing great. Hope the week is going on as planned. I will be writing on the contest topic of @hindwhale community. The topic is What obstacles have you faced/facing to fulfill your dream?

The topic is quite an interesting one, considering that each one of us have dreams. I had a dream of what I want to be as I grew older. Have I achieved it, what challenges have I faced while aspiring to do so. The contest tips will provide a guide for me as I explore this topic.

Write about a dream of yours that came true/or want to achieve?

I always had the dream of being self reliant. Have the ability to provide for myself and my family without being dependent on anybody or relying on salary. After having seen and felt what it was like for salary earners after retirement while growing up, I did not want to live that kind of life. I preferred doing my own things and controlling my time by myself.

What obstacles have you faced/facing to fulfill that dream? How you overcame those obstacles?.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to achieve my dream. From a tender adolescent age, I started carrying and shouldering family responsibilities. Not due to marriage but within my immediate family.

There was no provision(time) for me to develop a skill and use it to my advantage, since pressure was there to assist with the day to day expenses at home.

The funds were not even available to start off anything of my own. So I opted to look for work so as to earn a salary in order to assist in taking care of myself and the home.

There was no means of assistance from anyone, whether to train or to help equip me to actualize my desire. So I learnt to only do what I can and have the ability to accomplish.

Yet that my dream of being self reliant did not materialize.

Who encourages you to fulfill your dreams?

I had a senior friend who always gave me wonderful advice. He told me that being on my own from an early age would help to build my future early. He emphasized on that because of his being a victim of such too. He was a salary earner and suddenly he was sacked from the job. So he experienced the trauma firsthand.

Secondly, I read books and learnt that the life of an entrepreneur is more better compared to a salary earner.

Third, I went through the life of some rich men in the world and found out that making it in life was purely due to their Enterpreneurial skills in various sectors of their business concern.

So these encouraged me a lot.

What are the top 3 obstacles to not fulfilling one's dreams?

Economic Difficulty : This is one of the major reasons why it is difficult for a person to fulfill his dreams. A child may be bright, intelligent and knowledgeable, but might not have the necessary exposure and guidance needed to take him to a much greater heights.

If a person have a dream, but no financial means to achieve it, then the person is a daydreamer. This is one of the major obstacles that kills dreams.

° Setting unreasonable goals:- Sometimes we set our dreams and aspirations without considering what it takes to achieve that and whether it is even realizable. In the long run,, we may become frustrated for our inability to realize our dream not knowing that the main is from us, setting unreasonable goals for ourself.

° Government fiscal and monetary policies :- From my little experience in life, I have come to see that government policies are a major factor in achieving ones dreams. If one wants to be an entrepreneur, a singular economic policy can quickly reduce the person to nothing. So since there is no stable working economic mechanism where I live, business are just born to fail. About 90% of businesses do not survive its first year and that is a serious cause for concern.

Thank you so much for reading through my writeup. I invite @sahmie, @okere-blessing and @lhorgic to join in this contest.

Best regards
@benton3