Life Dreaming

Will the ship sink?

The newspapers here in Ireland have been full of the activities commemorating the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago.

It got me thinking about the Life Dreaming Luxury Voyage that I’m running in Dublin on May 26.

I’m sure you’ve had that up and down feeling when you’ve been organising something that’s important to you.

You know it’s going to be great fun and very useful – and then you wonder why you’re doing it and if anyone will come along – and then you think you’re mad – and the closer you get to it the more you start to feel like a right idiot and nearly cancel it all.

As I get closer to May 26 I’ve had my Titanic moments wondering what the feck I was doing.

And then I was wondering why I was feeling this way.

After all, I’ve been working with groups for nearly 30 years and I get amazing feedback from people. They say they laugh and learn and really enjoy themselves – and that was at an Effective Written Communications workshop!!

From the first Life Dreaming workshop in 1992 to the ones I ran in the outback and the week long ones I ran for older women on benefits and all the other ones – women have LOVED them.

Getting the Outside stuff right

Over the weekend I did a lot of reading about really drilling down a number of things to do with promoting your event and I worked really hard to answer questions around these areas:

• What fears, frustrations and problems do my potential customers have?
• What would be their dream situation?
• What would be their ideal solution?
• What benefits was I offering?
• What were all the features of my offering?
• How could I link all the features and benefits to my customers problems?
• What real value was I offering?
• What was our core promise?
• What kind of objections might people have to using my offerings?
• How could I answer their objections?

I spent many hours thinking and writing and linking in a lot of stuff that Marc and I have discussed over the last few years.

I’m really pleased with the results of all that effort and it helped me feel even more confident about all the Outside work I was doing to develop and promote Life Dreaming.

And I still felt a bit titanicy – yeh – that slightly sinking feeling with a dash of free floating anxiety.

Dealing with the Inside Stuff

Bright and early this morning I made my list of LD stuff to do – press releases; emails to send out; some rewrites to do; more reading – blah blah.

I began reading through some more modules of an online course I’ve been doing with the amazing Naomi Dunford to help me with all the details of promoting and launching the Life Dreaming Luxury Voyage. I was hoping to get some more tips on making my press release a winner.

I was reading happily away and taking notes when I came across this paragraph – and it gave me the boost I needed

‘’ When you’re afraid people won’t buy, you’re putting all the power in their hands and none in your own… when you remember that you are an expert who can help people, then you take your power back… when they buy from you they are not doing you a favour. They are getting the help they need… Believe that you have something of value to offer knowing that the right people will say yes … you can ask your audience to buy with confidence, knowing that the people who are ready will buy.’’ [from Naomi’s course. Visit her site for lots of brilliant free stuff]

Talk about a light bulb moment.

I realised that while I really do believe in the value of everything about Life Dreaming I had allowed myself to listen to the Goblins inside that wear you down with noise:

‘ What if no one comes along? ’

‘ Will I get the message out to enough people ’

‘ Give up now ’

‘ Just cancel it ’

It was time for the Fairies/Amazons with Attitude to come in and kick some Goblin arse – and give me a talking to:

‘ The Life Dreaming Luxury Voyage is a beautiful, practical and pampered planning day ’

‘ There’s a guidebook  full of step by step gorgeous activities so women can decide what’s important in their lives right now  and then map the actions to reality’

‘ It’s full of gorgeous food , gifts and great company ’

‘ It’s even customised to each woman’s needs and where she’s at in her life ’

‘ It’s a small group so every woman gets your attention ’

‘ It’s huge value and women will love it ’

AND …. ‘Every Life Dreaming workshop you have ever done has been a delight to the senses and women have left rejuvenated and enthusiastic about their lives’.

That’s telling me!!

Do the Inside and Outside work and nothing will sink

Doing the Inside work is so important. Ignoring it can sabotage all the hard Outside work that you do.

Having the Amazons with Attitude ‘chat’ to me has made a huge difference to how I’m now feeling. And I know they will be having a few more chats in the coming weeks – I just need to stop and listen.

No sinking feelings anymore.

I feel really comfortable now as I send off press releases and emails to friends asking them to share the Life Dreaming Luxury Voyage information with women they feel would benefit from the day.

I wanted to share this with you just in case you may have been feeling a little titanicy about something you’re trying to create in your life – I am totally with you.

Keep up the Outside work and also give yourself some time to do Inside work.

Listen to the Goblins and then let the Fairies/Amazons with   Attitude kick their arses!!

By the way – the Goblins and Fairies/AWA have a module of their own in the Life Dreaming Expedition and I’ll be bringing them to visit at the Life Dreaming Luxury Voyage.

I’d love it if you would share this information with any women you know who want to clarify their passion, purpose and life direction but don’t know where to start  – or – they have some great ideas but don’t have the time to track down the tools to make them real.

Many Thanks

Liz

I’ve had a mild case of the blahs for a few days. Waking up feeling blah and kind of blahhhing my way thru the weekend – blah blah blah

Now, it wasn’t every moment of the weekend that I felt blah – I walked Coco along the river and watched some movies and read the papers and cooked. Yet, there was an underlying feeling of … yup … blah.

It’s so easy to get into a Blah Rut where you can happily gather lots of evidence to support the Blahs and stay in Blah Blah Land.

Gotta say – it’s an interesting place to visit but I’d never want to live there as it soon becomes a kind of wasteland that can easily move to despair and depression.

I woke up this morning and was still feeling Blahish.

Went online and there was a post from a new blog I started to follow last week ‘Foxy and Fabulous’ by an Oz woman who is a portrait photographer.

Louise was writing about a challenge she took up to wear more sparkles. As I read it I started smiling and looked across at my 2 beautilicious sparkly bracelets sitting on the shelf. They had been gathering dust for a week or so.

I usually wear them all the time because they are the kind of jewellery that people  tend to keep for ‘BEST’ and I like sparkles everyday.

I love when I wear them because I always get stopped by at least 2 women who say how much they love them.

I reply ” I love sparkles and don’t believe in keeping things just for best. We all need some sparkle in every day”. Then I tell them how I got them at less than 15 euro [and some for 10euro] from a lovely online business run by 3 sisters in Limerick. They always have some of their sparkles on sale [it's a Facebook page] and that’s where I look.

I dusted off the bracelets and put them on – and felt a little more cheerful.

It got me thinking about how easy it can be to shift the focus of my energy and lens of my attention away from the Blahs and onto the Sparkles.

I decided that for today I’d filter in and focus on things that made me feel a bit Sparklier.

Marc then emailed me with the newest design version of the Life Dreaming Expedition.

Talk about a Sparkly event – it lifted and reconnected me to my passion and purpose.

I then spent a few hours reading through the modules and oohing and aaahing over Marc’s designs – OMG, they are delicious and they add real beauty to the fab activities.

Reading the activities was the next big Sparkle in my day. Just reading them helped me refocus.

I always smile when I read the LD modules as they really really work for me and that’s why I know they’ll work for many many people.

Then I decided to write this post and share the Sparkles – and writing it has lifted me out of the BLAH’s.

I’m not bouncing off the ceiling with joy but I am feeling a whole lot better than I did yesterday and that’s thanks to some lovely Sparkles that I chose to see in this day – and it’s not even lunchtime!

The Blahs tend to happen to me when I disconnect from what’s important to me and then I can get caught in a loop [that can turn into a spiral] where I filter more and more evidence that everything is crappy and it’s all too bloody hard.

My life [and yours] has got tough stuff in it – I don’t live in La La Land.

The power I have is to choose how and what I want to focus on and  what I’ll allow to filter into my life.

The blahs filtered in for a few days and they have their place – but not as a vocation!!

I’m also not just sitting here looking at my fab sparkly bracelets [although they are fab!]. I have written down a clear plan for work on Life Dreaming I want to do this week and a pile of other stuff.

And every day this week I’ll keep an eye out for Sparkles.

Thanks for reading and let me know what Sparkles you’ve had today.

Take care

Liz

A lot of the time there are clear solutions, pathways and actions that you can take to solve problems and make your dreams a  reality.

Sometimes there aren’t.

Sometimes you have to accept the mess until you can see a way clear.

There’s an assumption in many business and personal development circles that if we put all our skills and toolbox of ideas to work then we can solve anything in our lives.

I think that life is way too complex and chaotic and there will be times when all the tools in the world won’t make the complexity simple.

That’s when you can choose to accept the mess.

That’s when you might just need to retreat, replenish and reenergise for a time.

I’m not saying that you can’t use the tools you have and the resilient and creative spirit that you’ve built.

Often when we are at the beginning of making a dream a reality there’s a huge mess of stuff.

Yup – you can make lists [love 'em] and prioritise and get support and keep a fab attitude.

And – know that you’re dealing with a complex mess that will takes it own time to get untangled.

I’ve worked with new organisations where staff and managers are totally frustrated because ‘everything isn’t clear’.

Sorry folks but that’s the nature of startups. You’re often building structures, processes and roles and also trying to create and deliver your programmes and products.

It’s messy.

Sometimes the mess comes from a pile of external circumstances that feel like all the trains coming into the station at the same time.

It’s just a mess.

I have dealt with mess in any  number of ways – and this is my honest list:

• avoidance and denial – old friends that will always have a place in my mental health
• panic and over emote and be a drama queen in the privacy of my home –  and then get really really calm
• try and see where the pressure points are that I can move to another time
• see what can’t be changed
• understand what is way out of my control – and really let that go
• ask for help and see what other people can contribute to sorting the mess
• write about it – diaries and blogging have saved parts of my sanity over the last 5 years
• start making lists – that fab illusion/reality of control
• look at the big picture – shreek – and then see if there are teeny weeny elements in the mess I can deal with in the short term
• make choices about the attitude I want to bring to this messiness
• have a duvet day/s
• just stop and breath – I know everyone says that and it works for me
• and there’s a part of me that revels in mess and chaos

I’m sure there are heaps of other things that I and you do.

I think there’s something really powerful in acknowledging that there’s a mess and it’s too … messy … to have clear cut solutions.

When we acknowledge that  our life is messy then we’re not pretending that it’s all under control and that life is some kind of simple paint by numbers deal.

When we accept and name the mess then we’re being honest with ourselves – and that’s the first step.

It’s got me thinking about any particular messes in my life that I need to face – interesting question.

What about you?

Take care

Liz

There are days when even a small dream looks too hard.

I’ve had one of those days.

I woke up through the night from strange dreams [and I have really strange ones!] and then woke this morning feeling slightly ill.

My gut hurt and I was feeling all stuffed up and I had a ‘feeling’ – one of those intuitions.

I actually said to myself ‘something’s about to happen and I’m not gonna like it’.

So, I just slowed down and had a cuppa and went quiet for a while.

The phone rang and someone left a message. It was my credit union telling me that I needed to pay them money and while they knew people were suffering in this depression [I refuse to call it a recession] would I get it sorted.

Well folks, you can’t make money appear from nowhere.

My business like many others in Ireland has totally suffered as a result of the economic times and while I’m doing a lot of things to remedy the situation – I’m not a miracle worker. It’s been tough financially for a few years [and amazing in other ways].

So what did I do?

I let myself feel shitty for a few minutes and then:

• emailed the credit union manager and explained my financial situation again. I told him that I couldn’t meet their demands now but was working on it.
• emailed my sister and let off steam and had a cry
• emailed my brother Marc and moaned
• thought about the work I was doing to create something I love
• affirmed that I was committed to paying the credit union and they would just have to be patient
• balanced my stressed thoughts about money with thoughts about all the things in my life that were amazing – my friends and family, coco dog, this house I’m housesitting for 6 months …
• know that strength comes from adversity and wished it came from bubbles!

Then I gave myself the day off from dreaming and planning and making things happen.

I listened to my body, feelings, thoughts and intuition and rested.

Sometimes we just need to stop for while and not be the champions of our dreams and actions.

Sometimes we need to take some time to replenish our energy.

I went to bed and fell asleep and woke to the same day.

I’m not saying that I’m ready to take on the world [I'll leave that for tomorrow] but I am feeling a lot calmer and less stressed.

And, I don’t feel sick any more and my intuition tells me that all will be well eventually.

I went outside and saw the first daffodils and that made me smile.

I have friends visiting this week and next week and that made me smile.

Coco dog ran around me in pure joy at seeing me and that always makes me smile.

I’m smiling and tomorrow will be another day for dreaming, planning and action.

Today I rest.

Take good care of yourself

Liz

Mea Culpa my wonderful Life Dreaming readers … it’s been too long between posts … my damn life keeps getting in the way!

The last few months have been very very busy to the point where I kept getting sick with colds and coughs … and felt tired a lot.

When that starts to happen I know it’s time to stop … reflect … and make a few decisions about the next steps.

The activity over the last 8 weeks has all been about fab stuff:

• We had our Dublin Fashion Swap Shop Event in May – a ton of organising and an amazing day with lots of happy women
• I rewrote and reimagined the 8 Life Dreaming modules and am really pleased with the result. Thanks to Marc’s gentle feedback [he's a People Whisperer] I took the time to deepen the flow between modules and totally rewrote the last 3.
• I was [and am] immersed in an evaluation contract that has involved a lot of work and chatting to interesting people. I’m loving the work and the potential for the future of the programme I’m assessing.
• Pam and I began a Pop Up Shop 2 weeks ago in a new market. We were really pleased at the way we designed the space and women loved what we had on sale. Only problem was … we had to be there 4 days a week and footfall was dreadful.
• I spent quite a bit of time preparing a proposal for potential new work that still had more work to be done [unpaid].

On Sunday Pam and I decided to close the Pop Up Shop as the low footfall meant it wasn’t making any money and we’d stopped having fun … 2 of our key goals.

I felt a rush of relief as I’m so not a 4 day a week in one place kind of woman … specially when it’s not making money.

On Monday I had an important meeting with the CEO of a national Irish organisation about some work I’m currently doing and he asked me whether I’d be interested in doing some further transformation and action work with them.

When he had left I sat and thought about the work that could be coming up over the next 6 months and realised that in order to do it all well I’d have to work hours beyond what is healthy for me … I had to decide what stayed and what got left behind.

I made a risky decision then and there and withdrew from a potential contract. A contract I know I would have enjoyed.

And yesterday [Tuesday] I rewarded myself for all the thinking, reflecting and risky decision making by staying in bed all day yesterday reading trashy novels … wearing my sparkly bracelets … and sipping a glass of sauv blanc … and not thinking about anything.

Bliss.

I’ve learnt a few lessons over these last few weeks and months and I’d like to share them with you:

Be clear about why you’re doing something so you know when to end or continue - the Pop Up Shop was about money, fun and learning. We got 2 out of 3 and decided to end it because the money wasn’t coming in and we’d stopped having fun and we’d learnt all we needed. Too many people continue with things because they’re not sure of their goals … and … they are beset by inner and external chatter that says ‘don’t give up … what’ll people think … they’ll say I was a failure’.

Keep trying different variations of an idea – Pam sells the clothes online; has tried some markets in the country; a market in the city; the recent Pop Up Shop … and maybe … a Sunday Market.

Celebrate all the efforts in the process and not just the result - I made sure we celebrated all our efforts even when the money result wasn’t as good as we’d have liked. I celebrate the fact that we don’t just talk about ideas … we actually make them happen. It’s hard work so I really really place a lot of importance on recognising & rewarding effort.

Be clear about how you define success - if we only defined the success of all the work that Pam and I have done over the last 3 months in terms of economic profit … then we’d be abject failures. I have other profit indicators – creative profit; playful profit; social profit; community profit; learning profit. On all these levels we were a smashing success – we had a lot of fun … were very creative … learnt heaps … provided a service that made a lot of women happy … and still had some money to give to charity.

Be open to taking risks - nuff said

Listen to yourself when H,M,B,I are shouting and reassess priorities - I was getting sick, feeling exhausted and really stressed and into the beginnings of irritation and anger … so … time to stop and reassess. My health [mental and physical] is really at the core of my vibrancy and I was feeling like a shadow of myself this last month. I also know myself well enough that by last weekend I had to make a decision and open more time and space for myself. I can’t work 5 to 7 days a week and still be creative and engaged. So, Pop Up Shop goes – big relief. And my nagging feeling about the potential work was starting to make me jittery … I was focused on the fact that it was the only work on the horizen and I ‘had’ to get some money in and I did like the look of the work but knew it would eat a lot of time and energy over the next 6 months. My priority is getting Life Dreaming Expedition and LD launched within the next 6 months. And if I got the new contract it would either put LD to the backburner or I’d burn myself out trying to do everything. So, I decided to drop the potential contract.

You’ll know when you’re on the right track - the feeling of relief was like a huge truck and elephant had been lifted off me and I could breathe again. Knowing that I’d had the courage to turn down the new work and close the Pop Up Shop made me feel so happy – and my Intuition was happy because I’d listened … and my emotions and body are delighted because they can rest for a wee while.

Reward your courage and creativity - I gave myself yesterday to loll in bed and read trashy novels and drink a glass of sauv blanc and eat hamburgers and sleep … while wearing all my new sparkling bracelets. I believe that we all need these moments and spaces to recharge and celebrate and simply stop charging ahead. Today I’m celebrating by cleaning the house and taking Coco for a walk  and writing this post … feeling relaxed.

Rethink and redecision the next steps - The potential contract that I withdrew from is no longer an income option and I still need money. I’m taking time to look at what options I have and they’re looking good. There’s the possibility of 2 pieces of work that excite me. In September I’m going to start doing the Blogsite workshops again and I’m even thinking of designing a special Life Dreaming for Artists weekend [I've done professional 3 year artist plans with individual artist friends and they love them] as well as a Life Dreaming Voyage for anyone. And getting the LD Expedition launched is a major priority.

Look after yourself - Even when I was feeling stressed and sick I made sure I ate properly and didn’t drink any alcohol for a few weeks and went to bed and got 8 hours sleep. I didn’t berate myself when things weren’t going well … I looked for reasons and new actions and chose to stay fairly optimistic and hopeful. When my optimism waned and I found myself close to tears a lot … then I knew that my basic caring for myself wasn’t enough and I needed to stop, reassess and make some clear decisions.

Get support - I couldn’t have tried the Swap Shop and Pop Up Shop and all the other things over the last 3 months without other people … specifically Pam and Paul. I got to bounce about ideas; try something new; feel heartened and disheartened with my friends, some of whom were as closely involved with these activities as I was … we swam, sank and swam again together.

Loll - oh how I’ve missed my lolling over the last few months. Every day started to feel like it was all just action, action, action … and I’m not made that way! If I learnt nothing else from the last bit of time … I learnt that lolling [for me] is an integral part of my creativity and energy. I get back to my calm place and am able to imagine and create and write … and all my E Factors come back into play. Interestingly, I’ve realised that lolling is not lazy or unproductive … it’s an essential part of enabling me to create ideas and engage with the world. I need time and space to wander around inside my head … to create and explore new ideas … and just reconnect with what’s important in my life.

So there’s my Dirty Dozen learning from all the fab madness of my life over the last few months.

Life Dreaming Activity

Do any of my Dirty Dozen ring a bell for you?

Which ones would you use a lot?

Which ones would you like to use more?

Please let me know you’re still out there by leaving a comment and/or Liking this post.

I promise to write more often now that I’ve resorted a few things.

Lot’s of interesting words in todays title … barter … abundance … cash.

Anyone who has read my Liz Biz personal blog over the last few years will know that I have a mountain load of certain abundance in my life … and a certain lack of abundance in one area … cash … and cash flow.

I know that money and all the stuff around it [attracting it, keeping it, sharing it etc.] is one of my huge life lessons … and darlings … have I been given some huge kick ass lessons.

3 years ago I was at the cutting edge of the recession here in Ireland … paid work just dried up and in the next few years I got to really draw on all my skills and resources to keep a roof over my head and food on the table.

I was really challenged to live my core mantra … that I have the power to choose my attitude in any given situation.

I might have been cash poor but I was a time billionaire … Life Dreaming wouldn’t be where it is now without all the time I had to explore, design and develop it.

I’m not out of my personal cash recession yet and that doesn’t bother me because I’ve seen how bloody resilient and creative I can be in living the life I love.

My life is wonderfully abundant in so many ways … health, family, friends, fun, Coco dog, books, creativity, bubbles, etc etc … and I am grateful on a conscious and daily basis.

And here’s a good question I can hear some of you asking ‘ How do you get the life dreams that cost money when you have so little cash?’

Excellent question … and one I’d expect from such intelligent and gorgeous readers.

There are a number of ways that we can receive the things we need/want in our life:

• Cash – Pay for them with cash
• Free – Be given them for free
• Barter – Create an exchange of goods or services

They are all different forms of energy exchange between people and  they are all important in their own way.

There is another way that people exchange skills and services and it’s called L.E.T.S … Local Exchange Trading Systems. It was developed in Canada as a way for cash poor/skill rich communities to create and acknowledge the value of peoples skills, goods and experiences. I was very aware of it in Australia over 20 years ago … there are whole towns that work on L.E.T.S. It’s not as well developed in Ireland. Basically, you list your skills in a database and can then draw on other peoples skills. You sell your time for an imaginary currency and that is credited in a central database … and you draw down on your balance when you draw on someone elses skills. In one town you could go to a hairdresser/butcher/grocery and if they were in the L.E.T.S scheme you could pay part real cash and part imaginary currency … and they could then draw on their balance to maybe get in a painter or carpenter. I just found out that Western Australia [where I come from and my family still lives] has the most L.E.T.S schemes than anywhere else in the world. Here’s another site with loads of L.E.T.S info.

Cash – I still need cash for a range of transactions and am working on many ways to reduce the amount of money I need to live my life. My goal is to be debt free by the end of 2011, save money to live in Bali for a year and reduce my expenses. As I work to simplify my material life there is the beginnings of a sense that I only need to earn a certain [and not high] amount of cash in a year to meet my living needs [and still buy bubbles!]. The other thing I am doing is developing a few income earning streams rather than depending on one large income source … little streams can all join to form a larger cash flow.

Free – my life is choc full of really generous people. The year I turned 50 [2009] a number of friends and family sent me cash as presents and two friends paid for me to visit them in London and play in Dublin. Other friends gave me their cottage on a mountain free for a week so I could build the Life Dreaming Expedition modules in phase one. Friends have driven me to places without charging me … fed me when baked beans stopped being my favourite food … and treated me to bottles of bubbles.

There’s been a lovely lesson for me in how to graciously ask for and accept people’s help and generosity. Love you all.

Barter – in the last few years I have bartered my skills for goods and services. The more I write and talk about it … the more people ask and offer to barter. People often feel better when they can do an exchange rather than just receive something free.

In the last few weeks I have bartered and been offered barter in the following ways:

• I’m getting 1 to 1 tai chi lessons [1 hr a week for 4 to 6 weeks] in a gorgeous park in Dublin city in exchange for my help adding value to the design of the instructors wordpress site
• I’m doing 1 to 1 Life Dreaming sessions [up to 6 hours] in exchange for the professional services of a pr/communications person. She will develop my pr strategy for the Design Your Own Blogsite workshops I’ve started running … so I can get some of the cash I need on a more regular basis. The blogsite workshops are one of my little income streams
• I’m attracting house/pet sitting gigs so Coco dog and I can live rent and bill free for periods of time this year
• I’m getting a Mac Air in exchange for a friend attending one of my blogsite design workshops and giving some 1 to 1 help in building their business site
• I’m exchanging time I spend cleaning the house I’m renting a room in [and for the first time in my life I'm loving housework ... developed a passion for vacuuming stairs!] and the owners look after Coco dog when I have to be out for a day working or playing

In some cases I asked for the barter and in others people asked me …  usually because they knew I was open to it and therefore felt comfortable asking.

Barter Abundance is the new black and I am loving thinking of new ways to make it happen.

I’m also loving the different ways I’m creating cash earning opportunities by doing things I love … and I’ll always love getting presents and the odd freebie!

Life Dreaming Activity

1. Have you explored ways to reduce your expenses and increase multiple earning opportunities?

2. List all the skills, knowledge and experience that you could barter in exchange for goods and services.

3. Now start exploring who you could contact to start bartering … let people know you’re open to it.

4. List all the areas of abundance that you have in your life … now sit still and just feel happy to have all that in your life.

Please share you ideas on barter and abundance and earning streams … I’d love some new ideas and I’m sure other readers would love to hear as well. Write to me below.

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I’ve just spent the last few hours creating a visual montage of the different dreams I have for 2011 … and the personal qualities I want to continue to bring into my life and experiences.

I’d usually go rooting around in magazines to find the images … and that’s fun.

Today I googled and found a free online site where I created my montage. After a bit of fiddling I created and saved it as a jpeg. Have patience and be prepared to lose some of the work … nice site though and persistence pays off.

Before I created the montage I googled a lot of images and saved them to one file so they were easier to upload.

I had fun picking the images that gave a sense of what I want to do and be this year.

Seeing the images of what you want to do and be really does help as a motivator to action … it keeps your dreams in your minds eye … it bolsters your spirits when you’re stuck in the details … and when shit happens … it gives me heart and hope.

The Life Dreaming Vision I created is now my desktop background so I can see it every day when I work away on the computer … and I’m going to print it off as a postcard and a poster so it can be in my purse and on my wall.

You should be able to click on the image and make it bigger.

And … you could take a single image idea [e.g Celebrate Often] and create a specific collage with more photos.

Life Dreaming Activity

Create your own Life Dreaming Vision

Let me know what you think of this activity … leave a comment below and Share/Like with friends.