I don’t mind helping someone build their dream, but I’ve learned not to neglect my own in the process. And I don’t allow someone else’s dreams to become my own.

There’s been a lot of conversation about how you should be building your own dream instead of working a 9-to-5.

But what if you can do both?

What if entrepreneurship isn’t your calling?

What if you genuinely enjoy your profession, your career, or the work you do for someone else all while having dreams of your own?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with helping someone else build what they’ve been called to build. Especially when you have been given such an assignment by God.

You have the opportunity to grow and learn and occupy the steps towards your next assignment within your own destiny.

I also believe learning to follow is part of learning to lead. It requires humility, wisdom and learning.

And no one can do everything on their own. Honestly, I am learning this myself: I can’t do everything on my own and that is okay.

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. –Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 (NLT)

At some point, I’m going to need someone to help me build what God has placed in me, just like someone may need me to help them build what God placed in them.
Maybe not in the beginning. Maybe not in the way I imagined. But none of us builds everything alone. And one may have gifts, talents and strengths in areas I may not and vice versa.

The eye can never say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you.’ The head can’t say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you. –1 Corinthians 12:21 (NLT)

So yes, I can support your vision without abandoning mine.

I can work for someone else and still have something I’m building.

I can help someone else succeed without making their dream my own.

Their dream can be theirs. My dream can be mine. And there is room for both.
That’s not settling.

Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom. –Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NLT)