Find a metaphor to explain how you should show up for your dreams

Sorry if it may sound harsh, but it's for your best interest <3

Let's say you have a job interview. How come you can so easily respect someone you don't even know, respect a job you don't even have rn and don't know if you'll have, give your time, money, energy to this, yet you find it hard to do the same for the things you want the most, the things you always dreamt about having, the deepest desires you wish of fulfilling when you throw that little cent in the fountain, the things you always tell others you'll have or do but yet you never see yourself doing as you said?