On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

There are journaling sheets for doing this! These are available for everyone, not just membership members. Download them here.

I have been doing this on the journaling sheets and then sharing bits on my blog. Today I REALLY wanted to type it out here, so I am doing that 🙂

My dream is:

I want it because:

When I have it I will feel:

So these are from the Dream Page in Dream Book which I have been working on. I have A LOT to say about each one and I am still exploring what I REALLY want because it feels SO layered right now. And on the other hand it's simple, too. When your dream is to be self employed and do the work that you feel called/inspired to do, usually keeping that dream alive becomes an ongoing dream! There is a lot I want to change about how I do things - I don't want to make changes inside the membership other than keep adding what feels needed. I want to make changes to the outer layers of it, how I talk about and share my work.

This has been an exploration for a long time as the world has been changing and the internet has been changing and I feel like I am in a brand new place with it. I had been feeling a bit lost as sea, just bobbing around and responding to external changes. Now I feel creative and powerful and ready to build something and this brings up a LOT of thoughts and ideas I am still exploring, so my dream page continues to evolve.

New moon intention: Living life as creative retreat, figuring out what this means and what kinds of hobbies/routines would help me feel this way all the time

Last week's focus: Just do your best. (I cried through last week's dream status report! Amazing how this week I feel so clear and happy!)

Oh it feels SO GOOD to sit with all of this.

It's so easy to get lost in the jumble of being in the process. To sit here with my biggest dreams and the little pieces I am focused on now... this feels delicious.

Calling my dream in: I don't do the full Dream Lab, I feel like I want to meditate later. So I just run through it quickly in my mind and my dream shows up as a jungle that pops up all around me. Surrounded me in LIFE and GROWTH and SUSTENANCE.

What happened in the last week: This week I made a very deliberate intention to STAY AWAY FROM OVERWHELM. It's my mother's 80th birthday this weekend and I wanted to go into the weekend calm and ready to celebrate in style.

At the last minute, I took a business class kind of last minute with someone I had not been thinking about taking a class with. But suddenly it felt like a really helpful thing to do. After our last Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call I had been feeling a bit more clarity about what I want to change and I just wanted more help figuring that out.

How do I feel about this/What am I learning: I feel really clear and ready for my next steps, which technically are FIGURING OUT how to do my next steps. I feel ready to really look at the details of it and come up with a plan to TRY. (Not to pressure this plan to work perfectly)

One thing I learned this week is how much self doubt has seeped into my worldview - which also means that this week I took some big steps in freeing myself from it, so I see it more clearly, and feel ready to leave a good chunk of it behind.

What do I need now: That reminds me of another thing I started doing to address how overwhelmed I've been feeling: doing housework and stuff in little chunks most days, instead of doing it all on weekends as I have tended to do. Having EVERYTHING to do to "get my life together" on the weekend just isn't working like it used to, and instead of judging my for "not keeping up" I decided to try to break it all down into smaller steps. The idea of doing a little something each day to keep things more manageable felt good - and I actually did it this week!

So I don't need to "get my whole life together" like I usually do on Fridays, lol. Which feels so good. What I need is lots of time for journaling and exploring my ideas of how I may want to do what I want to do next.

What does my dream need now: My dream kind of buzzes with excitement about that. It is SO happy that I am taking some classes about the business parts - to get some help to create a new foundation for everything.

I realize I've had a little self doubt story about how if I can't do everything myself then that means I'm not good enough. And that is SO not true. I know this about dreams: they benefit from external support! Because they are so... delicate and unseen... having other people on the physical plane be on the team helps in more ways than we think.

Taking all of this into account my focus for next week is: Giving myself LOADS of space to dream about how I want to take these next steps.

I want to stay in "living life as a creative retreat" as in not feeling bogged down by daily life and feeling creatively free and alive and really DREAM.

 

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