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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!
I know doing the same prompts every week can be annoying sometimes but this is magically clarifying. The repetition helps you go deeper into the process and makes it easier to LEARN from your process as you go, and the apply those learnings right away.
Here are the prompts:
PART ONE: (sometimes these can stay the same for months at time, sometimes they change often)
My dream is:
I want it because:
When I have it I will feel:
PART TWO:
Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.
PART THREE:
My goal/wish/intention for this New Moon is:
Last week’s focus was:
What happened in the last week?
What am I learning/How do I feel about this?
What do I need now?
What does my dream need now?
Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:
My Dream Status Report for this week:
PART ONE:
My dream is: Being the artist + writer I want to be. For a while now a lot has been shifting around how much/what kind of art I want to make and working on creating more nourishing/robust/lively local creative community. Daily routines that help me feel creative and energized.
I want it because: It feels right in my heart.
When I have it I will feel: Optimistic and free.
My new moon intention: Healing and expansion.
PART TWO:
Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.
I see a drawing with lots of colour, I am focused on this wheel with bands of different colours. The wheel, or the drawing?, suddenly grows arms and takes my hands. Sitting here, I hold out my hands for my dream to hold. It says "This is your new life. It's alive"
It feels like a lot gets lost in translation of those words, I am focusing on this feeling of aliveness and creative magic in me.
PART THREE:
Last week’s focus was: Making my creative dream practice IRRESISTIBLE.
What happened in the last week?
I thought making my practice IRRESISTIBLE would be about... I don't know, lighting candles and making ti feel like an adventure? But it was about planning, lol! Planning the day the day before. Waking up knowing what I am doing, having a clear focus. That got me INTO the practice and once I was there, the magic of being with my dreams was irresistible enough.
When it comes to HOW I am showing up - my routines, structures and habits - this week I was FINALLY feeling like I did before the pandemic! I have dreamed of this for so long!
What am I learning/How do I feel about this?
The big learning, which I learn and teach again and again, is that it's the TINIEST steps that help the most. You can take a tiny step and be very grounded in it, which makes it easier to take the next tiny step, and they do add up. I feel now like that last few weeks I was trying to take too big a step and couldn't get grounded and kept falling on my face. This week I feel amazed by how far the tiny steps got me.
What do I need now?
Right now, as I write this, I feel so optimistic and sure of my future. I would really like to hold onto this.
I know it's the epic self care that's got me here, so I need to keep it up.
What does my dream need now?
To hold onto that sense of aliveness and creative magic.
Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:
Cultivate a sense of aliveness, creative magic and optimism for my future.
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