Dream Stealers

Dream Stealers.

It almost sounds like alien invaders descending from an unknown universe ready to suck out the part of your body where your dreams are kept.

I constantly heard the term “dream stealers” during Amway meetings and then parrotted by my husband.

In an accusatory tone he used to condemn our friends and relatives who didn’t support his business as dream stealers. “They’re trying to steal my dream” or “they don’t want my dreams to come true”. Those were terms he threw at me too as counselled by the leaders in his Amway upline. I was very negative about Amway at the time and I deserved what I got!

Its a stupid term anyway. It is used as a lame excuse by some IBO’s to justify their failure at not making money in Amway. Everyone else is a dream stealer. Always blame other people.

There’s a Disney song about how a dream is a wish your heart makes. If your dream is in your heart then no one can steal your dream. Not without some surgical tools to slice you open and kill you by removing your heart.

So what was mu husbands dream? It was whatever the upline told him his dream was. He was new and didn't know better. It had something to do with leaving me. That was the upline’s dream more than it was his. I don't blame him. I am a real bitch sometimes.

But how many of those upline leaders ever asked me once what my dream was? Not a single one of them. I mean really, why would they? None of them cared that about me to ask.

And they all probably could take a good guess at my answer: “To get my husband the hell away from you bastards and quit Amway!!!” Of course that's all changed now!

What about IBOs who leave the business. They’re also called dream stealers. They’re poison. Stay away from them or they’ll steal your dream too.

A dream is a thought, an idea. Its in your head and in your heart. Its not an actual entity. I’m not sure how you can lose something that is not an object like losing your car keys or your glasses. Or the cat got out of the house and is lost. Or I lost my husband again at Lowes. Someone can steal the keys, the glasses, the cat, maybe even my husband as attempted by the Amway business leaders. If someone steals your car you call the police to report the theft. How can someone steal your dream? Actually they do it by getting you discoraged. It took me a long time to figure that out.

Here’s how I used to think. Here's an imaginary conversation when a really stupid Amway IBO phones the cops:

“Aw, gee, my next door neighbor is a dream stealer and he stole my dream of owning a Porsche. I demand you arrest that son of a bitch and charge him with theft!”

“Dream stealers” is just one of many interesing things I’ve heard spout from the mouths of trained IBOs. Dream stealers can be further defined as losers, failures, and people going nowhere who want to drag you down to their level. Not intentionally but sometime people don't want you to have what they think thay can't get.

The unfortunate reality about “dream stealers” is they are sometimes people who love you and don’t want to see you fail, lose your money in a scam, and suffer from any kind of distress.

Dream stealers have an alternate point of view from the upline and that makes them dangerous people - at least in the eyes of the sack of most Platinums and the other leaders in the Amway upline because they could be responsible for letting your dollar signs slip away.

Is it a bad thing to listen to the “dream stealers”? YES! Aswell as stealing a dream they are really giving bad advice. IBOs think the “dream stealers” are being negative and trying to “steal my dream”. This is true. All they’re doing is trying to prevent the IBO from making good business decisions.

Remember those alien invaders who are sucking the dreams out of your body? They’re not so alien after all. The real dream stealers are the people who actually surround you most of the day. Watch out!