This is who I am and what I stand for.

By Andrea Schroeder / February 26, 2013 / Manifest Your Dream Life

I am an artist.? My canvas is my life.

My tools are adventure, play, possibility, love, deep healing work, transformation, authentic power, glee, creativity, connection to spirit, expression of purpose and being a ray of light.

Also: journals, rainbows, crystals and mineral spas.

It’s important to me to live my life in a way that feels true to who I am and to contribute what I feel I am here to contribute.?

This is more important to me than anything.? More important than finding a partner, having babies or making a million dollars.? I can do without pretty much anything else, but if I didn’t have this I would wither and die.

Even before I had the tools to be able to do this effectively, I was still practically allergic to seeing people hiding their true selves.? They mirrored the places where I didn’t know how to not compromise and it made me itchy and uncomfortable.

I stand for being who I am and supporting others in the process of becoming who they are.

I believe this, and only this, will save the world.

When you can be who you are you have access to infinite wisdom, infinite strength, infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite inner power and infinite ingenuity…. when you can be who you are anything is possible, in a tangible way.? And anything that harms or belittles? anyone or anything else just seems like a stupid waste of time.?

When you can be who you are you become a light.? Most of the world is in shadow right now.? When most of the world is in light – things will change.

So when I talk about making your dreams real I am talking about changing the world.? One awakened creative being at a time.

I just read this blog post and it inspired me to write out who I am and what I stand for.

PS: I’m hosting an amazing playdate this weekend and you’re invited! Read more + register here.

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How DELIGHT Can Rev Up Your Superpowers

By Andrea Schroeder / February 25, 2013

DELIGHT:

1. Which is delight: how delighting in your dreams helps give you the energy and enthusiasm you need to make them happen. Delight can fuel you up and fill you up, so you become BIGGER than the obstacles in your way.

2. And it?s also deLIGHT: how your dream is how you shine your light out into the world and exploring what kinds of things can help you do that more effectively.

Your dream is your dream for a reason.?

That reason is so jam-packed with delight it it can power the lights that light up the path that leads to your dream come true.? Shining your light out into the world is what you came here to do, it’s a basic part of everyone’s programming.

It’s also COMPLETELY TERRIFYING.

And the ways we react to that terror are fascinating.? We block the light, we turn away from the light, we pretend we don’t have as much light as we do – all while desperately searching for ways to shine our light more brightly.

Creativity = shining your unique light into the world.

It we were just blocking/avoiding/ignoring our light (like most of the world is doing right now) we would go numb and settle into lives that don’t quite fit and accept that this is the best it gets.

When you’re blocking/avoiding/ignoring (and we’re all doing this on some level) while at the same time trying to bring a creative project to light it’s like two opposing energies colliding.

I want it so bad.

But I’m scared.

But I’m ready.

But I’m not, really. I mean – who am I do to this?

But I am ready! I want this so bad!

But I’m scared.

etc.

Depending how conscious or unconscious this all is, you may actually recognize this conversation or you may just find that you really want to do something but no matter how you try it just doesn’t work out the way you wanted it to.

Either way you both LOVE THE THING YOU WANT TO DO SOOOO MUCH and also GET SO FRUSTRATED AND SCARED SOMETIMES.

It’s really hard to hold intense energies that are moving in the opposite direction from each other.? But this is the path of bringing a big dream to life: Dealing with the fears, freak-outs and stucks while growing your Creative Genius.

This inner work stuff is so hard sometimes.

Cue: PLAYDATES!

On March 3 I am running a Virtual Playdate (AKA How To Fill Your Life With So Much Magic It Actually Sparkles).

The theme will be: deLIGHT

This is where you imagine me grinning like an idiot.? I am still slightly stunned and amazed by my Playdates.? I have been running them monthly in my Creative Dream Circle since September and very month they deliver: magic, miracles and life-changing shifts in perspective.

Playdates are filled with:

Creativity. Play. Gleeeeful Explorations.

Looking inside for direction, guidance and fuel.

Exploring ways to trust those inner messages.

Opening up new layers of what is really true, for you.

Figuring out how to apply all of this to how you live your life.

Surprising True Fact: With the right approach, you can actually play your inner work better than you can work on your inner work.

Ready? Let’s play!

Registration: $37 (US)

We shall Playdate On March 3, starting at 11am Central (click here to find out what time this is in your time zone).? It will be 3 hours long and include 4 phone calls, with breaks in between for playdating on your own.

It’s amazing if you can be there live, but people do report having just as much success working with the recordings.? You’ll still love this, even if you can’t be there live.

Registration includes:

access to the live calls and recordings of the calls
four Playdate ~~workbooks~~ playbooks

You’ll leave the Playdate with:

a new understanding of how delight can rev up your superpowers
clarity about what your dream needs right now
unique + effective ideas for how to make the path to your dream more delight-full and less scary

?What you need:

phone line and computer to access the calls, hear the recordings and download the playbooks
journal and whatever art supplies feel fun for you
three uninterrupted hours (or you can break it up into segments and playdate over a couple of days or weeks)

I hope you’ll join me, I’d love to play with you.

I might offer another playdate in the future but I never do the same one twice.? So if this speaks to you, join me now!

Questions? Check out my policies page.

PS: If you want access to regular Playdates and Teleclasses at a lower price, (plus a ton of extra stuff like my Creative Business Incubator and Advanced Creative Badassery Resource Library and an ongoing private forum) you are welcome to join the Creative Dream Circle.

If you are already a member of the Creative Dream Circle don?t register for this playdate! You get it all free in the Circle, of course.

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Creative Genius Planning Session

By Andrea Schroeder / February 18, 2013

Every Monday morning in the Creative Dream Circle, we have a Creative Genius Planning Session.? We invite in the qualities we want to play with for the week, intentions for how we want to be and what we’d like to accomplish and receive, we bring our creative genius into planning so that things so easy and smooth, we inspire each other and we make magic.

This week I felt like posting mine here, so here goes.

For the last little while, I’ve been working on a Mystery Project which has basically taken over my regular schedule.? This week I’d like to start to shift back, with maybe 50-50 split of Mystery Project and regular Creative Magic Headquarters Activities.

So what would that look like?

Ha, that seems so confusing at first but actually it’s simple – smaller containers for Mystery Project naturally means more space for other stuff.? But thinking about doing that feels uncomfortable and tight…

….cue discussion with Mystery Project…

Mystery Project – what do you need?

More than 50% that is for sure!? Why is it that you want to shift back into “normal” before I’m done?

Oh, good question.? Oh!? That’s an old pattern.? It’s how I react when external things try to swoosh in and change my plans.? I protect what I want.

Do you really need to protect yourself from me?

No!? I’m seeing you as external but really you are a project I chose to say yes to and you are a project I love and am excited about.? I guess I worry that I am dropping too many balls in the process of spending all this time with you.

….cue discussion with Other Stuff That Is Being Left Behind…

Hey!? Other Stuff!? I miss you!

Oh man, (blinking) can you turn down the light?? You woke me up and I was having such a delicious sleep.

Oh, so you’re not jumping around impatiently waiting for me to come back to you?

Dude!? Mystery Project is awesome!? We’ll have so much more fun together after it’s finished.

Oh, that makes sense.? OK, enjoy your sleep and just let me know if you need anything.

Hmmmm….. So I guess planning this week is simpler than I thought.

Important:

(Created list of important things this week and added in to my journal page in purple marker)

Yes, everything else can continue to sleep and I can give Mystery Project most of my attention this week. (Created list of priorities for Mystery Project for this week in hot pink marker)

Also, in keeping with our Creative Dream Incubator work in the Circle this week, added a list of things I am doing to nourish myself, my creativity and my dreams, in turquoise marker.

Invitations

I am inviting trust, ease and flow to hang out with me this week.? I am making my (inner + outer) space a welcoming container for these qualities by remembering them in my meditations and leaving myself reminders about them.

OK week, I am ready to rock you!

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Your Creative Dreams don’t need support.

By Andrea Schroeder / February 14, 2013

Every month we do this amazing playdate/tea-party-of-miracles in the Creative Dream Circle.? And every month as I’m preparing it I think we’re going to learn x and then we end up learning abcdefghihjklmopqrstuvw.

This month I wanted to create space for us to create? Support Systems for our Creative Dreams.? You know what I’m talking about, that system or product or way-of-doing-things that makes everything magically easy, always, forever and ever.

How embarrassing is that?? I have been doing this for how long and I am still looking for that magic bullet?

Luckily, the playdates are a container and an invitation for magic + miracles to occur.? So it doesn’t matter what I think we’re going to learn, everyone’s going to learn what they need to learn, including me.

So when we invited the heart and soul of SUPPORT to join us in the circle, I was completely blown away.

My Creative Dreams don’t need support.

They are already perfectly and beautifully supported by spirit and purpose.? Nothing I can create or find or buy would add to this in any noticeable way.? My creative dreams are already completely supported, perfectly whole and complete and real on the spiritual plane(s).

It’s me who needs support!? You and me and all the other creative dreamers.? Bringing a dream to life is a big job that demands internal growth.? Internal growth almost always requires a different kind of support than you think it does.

This is part of the nature of being in the process of change, you can’t properly anticipate what you need because you’re thinking from where-you-were and the support is needed at the level of where-you’re-going.? That’s why I playdate these things instead of attempt to teach them – playdates open you up to your creative genius and divine intuition so you can get the answers you need.

During the playdate the heart and soul of support asked me to let go of some old dreams, and old ways of seeing myself, to free up my energy to be more supportive of the dreams that want to come to life now.? This is NOT even close to what I was expecting.

I was expecting stuff like: spend more time working on it, be more organised and productive, have a better system, get expert advice, hire the right help, blah, blah blah.? In hindsight, those do sound like things my inner critics would say, not my inner genius.

So I wasn’t expecting, even a little bit, to be asked to let go of dreams that I’d held for so long they feel like a part of who I am.? When I received that message, I felt totally blown away and confused.

But now?? Not even two weeks later, I think it’s AMAZING the way our dreams can lead us to discover new aspects of who we really are.

Of Course(!) it’s time to let go of some of those dreams.? I have been feeling like it doesn’t all fit.? Letting go makes space for what’s really important right now.? And it’s not like I destroyed the old dreams – I can always go back to them if I want to.

Right now I feel free.? Like there is enough room for what matters, like there is even enough room for my dreams to grow bigger than I think they can.

So thank you playdate!? And thank you to my fellow Creative Dreamers in the Circle who help make the playdates so stunningly transformative, healing and FUN.

This is the soul ~~work~~ play of bringing a dream to life.? I am blown away grateful that this is also the work work I get to do every day, and that I get to do it with such amazing and inspiring people. I have so much love for all of you.

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The world needs your light. Shine bright.

By Andrea Schroeder / February 12, 2013

Getting yourself to a place of being able to shine your light, and then making the necessary adjustments to keep shining the brightest light you can reach for is an ever-changing dance.

My dance, over the past few weeks has included:

solitude, lots and lots of glorious solitude
so many mugs of tea
re-arranging the furniture (both literally and metaphorically)
45,000 words written
journals and art supplies scattered all throughout the dream loft
getting to know my most menacing inner critic yet – a huuuuge beast, a cross between a bird and a wolf.? (And then finding out it was just an inner child in a costume – which is why you NEVER yell at inner critics or tell your fears to fuck off.? No matter what they look like they are always your sweet, scared inner children)
the discovery of a whole new level of radiance + joy and the ability to plug into it in a whole new way

The quiet times are when all the best stuff happens.

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YOUR dream is important.

By Andrea Schroeder / February 7, 2013

Make it real in the Creative Dream Incubator.

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Things I Know (Dialogue with my inner worry-wort)

By Andrea Schroeder / February 6, 2013 / healing

When I’m a little dazed and confused, it’s always helpful to write out a list of things I know.? This is a random list of what I know today:

1. All Signs Point To YES.? Just because this new thing is a “way bigger deal” than anything I’ve done before, my inner critics are convinced it can’t succeed.? But nothing has actually happened that suggests this isn’t going to go exactly as planned.

2. I am clearly exceeding my current limit for what I feel comfortable receiving.? I have been here before and it has never meant anything other than it’s time to expand my limit.

3. My intuition is clear. My intuition has never led me astray.? Following my intuition has always proven to be safe.

4. I don’t have to see it to know it’s there.

5. I have so many options it’s ridiculous.? There is always a way.? And I have so many tools for finding ways!? I have The Best Tools, actually.

6. The work I’m doing right now lights me up like nothing else.? I’m definitely on the right path.

7. My mission is much bigger than me.? (The top of my head tingled when I wrote that.)? The support for me mission is also bigger than me.

In light of all this, sweet tiny part of me who worries, are you sure the worry is needed?? It’s ok to take a break if you want, I’ve got this.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I need to worry!? What if no one is worrying?!? What will happen when things start to go wrong if I wasn’t worrying in advance!! Disaster!? I wouldn’t be able to fit all the worry into the time left! And then what?!?!?!

Yeah, and then what?

I wouldn’t worry all the worry!

I know, but what would happen if you didn’t worry ALL the worry?

[No response for a while, she just looks kind of stumped and confused.]

If there is too much un-worried worry, doesn’t it fall to the ground and ruin everything?

I don’t think so sweetie, has that ever happened?

I don’t know.? I just want to be READY!? When disaster strikes I don’t want to be surprised, I want to be ready.

Do you think worrying in advance is the best way to get ready?

Yes?

Yes?

Yes!? Worry makes you look at other options!

But worry isn’t the only thing that makes me look at other options.? What about the Creative Dream HOLYdays we do every month in the Circle?? So many options, ideas and possibilities come out of those, much more than worrying has ever created.

Oh my gosh! Worry might not be the best tool!? The HOLYdays DO give you the best ideas.

You don’t have to worry about whether or not you’ve been using the right tool, sweetie. See worry actually makes it harder to move forward because it’s got kind of a heavy vibe.? Worry slows things down which I think you like because it feels safer to you to slow things down.

If I was cataloging all the ideas, possibilities and options instead of worrying I think that would be more helpful.? I could respond faster in an emergency.? And… well, you’re right that I do feel safer when you are moving slower and I could still slow you down by showing you the catalogs.

Huh.? I am very inspired by my little worry-wort!

I’d love to create this catalog!

I do have journals upon journals filled with this stuff but if I put it into a binder where I can organise everything that actually would be very helpful.

Excited! I’m off to get a latte and get started cataloging my many options, possibilities and ideas.

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The puzzle is too small or the pieces are too many

By Andrea Schroeder / February 1, 2013 / healing, Manifest Your Dream Life

We’re on Module There of the Creative Dream Incubator in the Creative Dream Circle which is Expression: The Magic + Sparkle of Making Dreams Real.? Creating space in our lives so the dreams have somewhere to grow into.

The first few weeks of the Incubator is about tending to the more invisible aspects of creative dreaming, working on your relationship with your dream and your relationship with possibility and magic, so that those relationships are strong enough to bring the dream to life.? In all of that, two dreams came to the forefront for me but many others are right behind them.

And my relationship with each one of them is AHmazing.? And I can’t wait for them to be here!

But when I step back and look at the whole, look at where and how I can fit all these different things into my life it’s all GAH.

GAH!

So I sat with the GAH to discover what it has to teach me and here it is:

I am being stretched, so that I can contain all of these dreams at once.? It’s ok that I don’t know how it all fits yet because I am in the process of being stretched and I won’t be able to see that until I am stretched enough for it.? And then *pouf* everything will make sense and everything will fit.

The message is for me to be ok with not knowing.

Which makes me want to GAH again but instead I’m taking a deep breath and reminding myself that every time I have been in a place of not-knowing that has lead me to something new – bigger, better, brighter, whatever.? If I never go into that place of not-knowing I never get to experience anything new.? If I never allow myself to be stretched I never get to have more.

And the GAH is now is a hug filled with comfort and reassurance and familiarity and trust.

And when I step back and look at the whole instead of that GAH of not being able to see how it all fits I see a lot of fog and mystery.? Before it felt like it can’t all fit and now it feels like it does all fit – I just can’t see how.? But I trust the fog and I trust the mystery so now it’s exciting to watch and find out how it’s all going to fit.

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Creative Flow. Why Aren’t You Here Yet?

By Andrea Schroeder / January 30, 2013 / healing

So I continue to work on this project.

My heart is full:

DELIGHT? in the magic of this project

CARE for all the little details

GRATITUDE for being offered something that is on a scale far, far beyond the level I’ve been working on

LOVE for the project itself and how it’s going to help people

And still. Progress is beautiful and slow. MADDENINGLY SLOW.

Hmmmm.? Seeing that there in black and white I feel I should add: it’s probably not slow at all.? It’s more like I WANT IT TO BE RACING CAR FAST.

Something amazing is coming to life here and it needs whatever time it needs to do that.? And I know that is true about every single thing that comes to life but that doesn’t change how annoyed I am with this for being so slow.

And *pouf* my Creativity Fairy Godmother appears right beside my laptop.

Oh honey, you know, right?? You know that your annoyance is actually slowing things down?

Yeah, I know.? But it’s how I feel!

Oh of course!? We would never tell you to feel differently than how you feel!? But, well, you know better than to try to push and work on a thing that you are annoyed with while you are annoyed, right?? I mean you’re not exactly a beginner …

Right.? If I am annoyed my attention naturally wants to be going to taking care of the annoyance.? Instead I am trying to force my attention to remain on the project, which is the source of the annoyance and YIKES yes I am compounding the annoyance and turning it into a bounder which blocks creative flow.

Yes sweetie Creative Flow is Flowing. That’s what it does.

And here I am – throwing boulders in its way while demanding it to show up faster.

Right so, would now be a good time to stop doing that?? You’ve got that lovely soup waiting for you at home. What if you go home, enjoy some soup, and take care of your annoyance before coming back to this project?

And *pouf* a little devil appears on the other side of my laptop.

Hello – are you my annoyance?

Hello yes!

What do you want to tell me?

There is a reason why I’m here.? I’m annoyed that you are trying to rush – you’re playing into that old people-pleasing pattern of yours and it SUCKS.? I HATE IT.

Ohmygosh!? I totally didn’t see that.? But you are so right, I did slip into that old pattern and I can see why.

Yeah I can see why to – it doesn’t take a genius.? And seeing WHY doesn’t change anything.? I want you to change something!

(Little devil actually pushes me out of the people-pleasing pattern and I can feel everything shift)

Wow, thanks for the push.? Now I can see so much clearer.? I actually do want to finish this quickly, that is my truth not just my people-pleasing pattern.? That’s funny, my people-pleasing pattern and my truth both want the same thing, I’m not sur that is ever happened before.

We both want the same thing, we just need to take a different approach.

My truth is that I want this to come together quickly and I know better than to think I am in control of the timeline.

And the little devil and my Creativity Fairy Godmother are gone.? It’s just me and my project and everything seems kind of sunny.? My project looks apologetic, like it didn’t mean to annoy me or to throw me into that old people-pleasing pattern.? My project loves me like I love it.

I think I will go home and have some soup for lunch and take a little break and come back to this later.

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I Am Stuck.

By Andrea Schroeder / January 26, 2013 / healing

Recently I was offered a really incredible opportunity.? (No, I can’t give any details.)

In order to move forward with this opportunity, I have to create something.? I create things all the time – so no biggie, right?

Ha.

The first draft was no biggie actually.? The enormity of the project hadn’t quite sunk in yet, I was super excited and so I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote.? And what I wrote is pretty good.? It’s nowhere near what I want it to be and what I know it can be, but it’s a great start.

And here I am, with a weekend free to work on this and I. Am. Stuck.

So, hello there stuck.? Can we talk?

Yeah, I guess, I mean sure but it’s kind of hard for me to talk.

Why is that?

Well, I’m stuck!? I’m crammed into this space that is too small for me.

Oh, can I help?

Maybe.? I don’t know.? It’s probably easier to just stay stuck.? I can curl up in here and never leave.

Really, is that what you want?

(pause)

No, I don’t know. Yes. I want that right now, getting out just seems so hard!? But I don’t like the idea of ALWAYS being here.? I want to have the option to leave.

That makes sense.? How can we give you the option to leave?

Well, just understanding HOW to get out.? Oh!? I could stop trying to go straight ahead and inside go sideways.? Maybe that is how?

Yeah, it seems like you could kind of roll sideways and get out of there.

(Stuck rolls sideways and gets out of there.? The feeling of stuckness inside of me lessons noticeably but doesn’t totally disappear. Stuck just looks at me, then curls up in a ball right beside the small container he had been stuck in)

Ah, so now I can see that we’re in a meadow at the edge of a forest and you, dear stuck, are a bunny!? And you were stuck in a barrel.

I went in there looking for a safe space because it was dark and rainy and scary out.

That makes sense.

So now what?? Now I feel free, I’m out of the barrel, but I want to stay right beside it because I may need to jump back in which means I may get stuck in there again.? I don’t want to go hopping around in the forest, it’s scary out there!

I know.

Like that project you are working on – that is terrifying!? I want to go nowhere near there.? And if you go near it, I will jump back in the barrel.

Well I understand your fear but I don’t want to let you hold me hostage.? Not only do I really want to do this because I think it will be fun (omg! do you remember last week when writing was fun?) I want to do this because it’s going to help so many people.

Oh, yeah,? It’s hard to remember the good parts when the scary parts are so big.

So why are the scary parts big right now?

Because you’re out of the flow.? You’re looking at where you’ve gone off-track in order to bring the project on-track.? Looking at the off-track parts wakes up fear and doubt and makes the good parts shrink.? It’s not that it’s wrong that there are some off-track parts – that’s a natural part of the creative process.? It’s more like you’ve got to just focus on on-track.? I don’t know – start over fresh instead of editing?

Start over fresh instead of editing. Oh that feels like a pit in my stomach, like I’ll never finish if I do that.

Sometimes you have found a lot of freedom in that approach.? Everything you wrote is still there, you can grab parts of it but put it together fresh. Actually I think you’ve done that with every major thing you’ve ever done.

Yeah, maybe.? And this feels different.? The timeline for one.? Not seeing the whole scope of the project for two.

No, those things are not so different. Sweetie, remember the good parts!? Remember the fun and how amazing and helpful this will be!? KISS!? KISS! (Keep It Simple Sweetie)

Simple.? I could stand to simplify this whole thing.? OK yes. I feel a little less stuck now.

And I want to go hop around in the forest!

(Bunny hops off.? I kind of lean against the barrel and a snake slithers out.)

Oh!

(Snake does not respond.? It just stares at me.? This is the part of me that Does Not Believe And Never Will.? I see a pile of hay lying on the ground and take a tiny bottle of love, comfort and peace and pour it on the hay, creating a nest of love, comfort and peace for the snake.? Snake curls up in the center of the nest.)

Yeah, I can do this.

I am taking the fact that this is a HUGE DEAL and putting that in the barrel.

I am taking the timeline and putting that in the barrel.

I am sealing up the barrel.

I am taking the fact that I am really excited about this project and putting in a heart-shaped locket and putting that around my neck.

I am taking how helpful and useful this is going to be and spinning it into yarn and knitting myself a soft, soft hat out of it and putting it on my head.

Yeah, I can do this.

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You are the Source of Time

By Andrea Schroeder / January 25, 2013 / meditation

I started today with a meditation so intense I had to lie down and rest for 20 minutes after.

I have been reading The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks which is amazing.? It’s about the Upper Limit Problem, how we all have an upper limit to what we think is possible for us, and when we try to go beyond it, we sabotage ourselves.

I’m at the end of it, where he talks about how you have to transform your relationship with time in order to live a life of infinite possibilities.? This is not news to me.

Changing your relationship with time is a really basic aspect of Creative Dreaming.

If you don’t make time to do the things that light you up, if you don’t make time for your calling – well you’ll just continue to live a life that is not true to who you are.? And meanwhile you are making time for all this bullshit stuff that you say you don’t care about.? “I don’t have time” makes no sense at all.

“I don’t have time” is actually just code for “I’m not ready”.? When you’re ready you make time.? But what Gay Hendricks talks about in The Big Leap goes beyond that.

He says: You Are The Source Of Time.

When I meditate on not being the source of time it feels cold, isolating, dis-empowering and like there is no way out.

But at first, when I meditated on being the source of time it just didn’t make any sense.

But that cold isolating powerless feeling is the opposite of how I want to feel about my life and my place in the universe.? And I know that beliefs foster feelings which foster actions.? And I know that it doesn’t matter if the beliefs are “true” or not, I have the power to choose beliefs that support me in feeling how I want to feel and living how I want to live – you can be happy or right and I choose happy.

So I knew I wanted to adopt the belief that I am the source of time, I just couldn’t see how I could believe it.

So I meditated on space.? Time and space are related.? Could I be the source of space?? And suddenly I grew as large as the universe and contained the entire, expanding universe within me.? Yes, I can be the source of space.

But time still felt outside of me.

And I thought about love and creativity because I know, like KNOW, that the source of love and creativity are inside of me.

And whooooooosh the time piece fell into place.

Time appears different because we have all agreed on a way to measure it.? We don’t agree on a way to measure love or creativity, but other than that they are very similar to time.

And actually since we agree on how to measure time we tend to confuse our measuring system with the actual thing.

Time is not hours or seconds or years.? That is like saying your body is a measuring tape or a scale because that’s how you measure it.

No, time is very different from that.

And the source of time is inside me.

And the source of time is inside you.

This is something for me to keep exploring.

Obviously I had a beautiful epiphany in my meditation this morning and now it’s time to ground myself in this belief.

It’s fascinating to discover that my view of time as being outside of me was cold, isolating and dis-empowering because as I shift into this new belief of time being inside of me it’s like my whole life moves into a new world of brightness and possibility. Exciting.

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Everything is changing, this is why + how:

By Andrea Schroeder / January 23, 2013

In December my blog started talking to me.? It had some pretty incredible things to say about how important my mission is and how much it supports it.

This blew my mind because until then I saw my blog as mine.? Like, a thing I made.? But, as it started talking to me I learned that it’s actually its own thing, with its own energy and its own purpose and its own heart and its own soul.

In hindsight I don’t know why this surprised me the way it did.? The way I teach Creative Dreaming, everything has its own energy and purpose and heart and soul and you need to get to know your dream on those levels before you’re ready to bring it to life.

So as I got to know the heart and soul of my blog I discovered that it is a really, like really, passionate supporter of my mission of overflowing our whole world with wishes (come true!) and dreams (fulfilled!).

And it was more than a little pissed with me because I wasn’t letting it live up to its full potential because my bullshit issues with visibility and popularity were making some things a little murky.? It was pissed off because it is a valiant supporter of me and my work and just wanted me to get on track.

So I started to work on my bullshit issues with visibility and popularity.

This is where I absolutely love that I teach all of this stuff because teaching is the best way to learn.? So I set up a visibility tele-class for the members of the Creative Dream Circle and learn we did!

That tele-class shifted everything and I discovered new levels of feeling comfortable putting more of myself out there.

And then slowly a feeling of discomfort started to creep up until – bam!? I had to take a break from blogging, vlogging (Ouch! I cringe so bad at that word!) and my weekly emails.

Oh, the emails!

As I was learning about the heart and soul and purpose of my blog, my email list (which is actually a heart shaped envelope with blue wings) also wanted to introduce itself to me and show me how big its potential is and how much I’d been holding it back, again, with my own bullshit issues.

My blog and my email list were tired of being tied to each other – they each have their own unique purpose and were holding each other back the way I had them working together.

So, when that bam!? I have to take a break feeling happened, it created an opportunity for me to re-arrange things so that everything has what it needs to grow into its full potential.

Which means I have what I need to grow into more of my full potential.

Within about 2 hours of saying “I’m taking a break” everything had shifted for me.? I could see clearly where I needed to change what.? In fact, a tiny wizard appeared in my journal (Really! Creative Journaling is the best!) and showed me this simple 3 step plan for turning what I don’t want into what I do want (soooo handy!).

My plan was ready by lunchtime.? When you get down to heart, soul and purpose things are really simple.

My blog is going to become my journal.

JOURNAL!? Journal makes me smile!? I love to journal!? I live to journal!? I love and live this so much I cannot believe I didn’t think to name my blog my journal years ago.

When I blog I am conscious of being PUBLIC.? And a part of a business.? A business that gets a lot of questions and I try to use my blog to answer them and to be helpful and you know what?? That’s not sustainable.

Not that I don’t want to be helpful… see the email part for more on that.

What becomes unsustainable about trying to be helpful on my blog is that it’s never done.? There are always new people coming in and asking things.

When I journal I am in my process, doing what I can to live what I teach and be an example.? This is how I use the tools of Creative Dream Incubation to live my dreams, every day.

Sharing that is inherently sustainable.? And satisfying.

My weekly email is going to become a free e-course: The Creative Dream Starter Kit

Email subscribers are going to get my DreamSPARK kit (A series of meditations and journaling prompts, leading you through your inner world on a magical dream journey) plus regular emails filled with helpful things – videos, meditations and thought-provoking lessons on everything you need for successful creative dreaming.

So when a new person comes in, they can sign up for this and get all the helpful things delivered right to them via the magic of my email list instead of via me writing new blog posts for them.? Not all of this material is brand new.? I have been offering free lessons and resources on my blog for years and will be compiling the best of the best of that for this course, as well as adding new pieces in.

Both my blog journal(!) and email list are very happy about this.

They both have more space to fulfill more of their potential and be more of who they are out in the world, which is what we all want.

I am so happy about all this! Yay!

If you want to read my new journal, you can click here to subscribe to have blog posts sent to you by email.

If you want to get the free Creative Dream Starter Kit E-Course, click here to signup.

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Hello Gorgeous Dreamer!

By Andrea Schroeder / January 23, 2013 / Manifest Your Dream Life

You’ll Get:

1. The DreamSPARK Creative Dream Starter kit: A gorgeous and enlightening series of meditations and creative journaling prompts, leading you through your inner world on a magical dream journey.

If you don’t know what your dream is: this kit will show you.

If you already know what your dream is: this kit will help you learn more about it, which is key to knowing how to make it real.

2. Delightful emails + invitations: A weekly dose of magic + love with invitations to join me for special events.? When I do a free class you’ll be the first to know.

If this sounds right-on to you, sign up today:

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There is a deep shift happening in our world right now.

By Andrea Schroeder / January 14, 2013

I’ve been exploring this new mantra:

I’ve spent the past few weeks opening it up and finding out what it’s like to live inside it.

And a lot has happened as a result.? More than I can really type out and explain, of course.

The short version is that I’m taking a break from my blog.? And a break from Creative Dream TV.

Starting today, I’m diving into the deep magics of Creative Dream Incubation with a truly amazing group of dreamers.

And I’m going to give them my all.

I feel like I want to free up my energy so that I can focus it all on supporting this delicious group of dreamers in making their dreams REAL.

There is a deep shift happening in our world right now.

This is a really important time in our collective evolution.? A time of opening doors and expanding possibility.

I want to make the most of this!

I want to shift right along with the whole universe into a state of expanded possibility, creativity, success, love and joy.

And as much as I love my blog and everything about it – right now, keeping up with my blogging schedule and creating new Creative Dream TVs feels like it’s in opposition to being with the shift.

So, besides wanting to make more time to support my darling Creative Dreamers in making their wildest dreams real I also want to create more time to support me in making my wildest dreams come true.

I’d love to support you in making the most of this shift, too.

If you want to join us, the door is still open.

If not – I’m wishing you all the best and I’ll see you back here when I’m back here.

PS: You can see what Creative Dream Incubator graduates have to say about the course right here.

If you are a Creative Dream Incubator graduate and you want to join – email me, you get a FANTASTIC discount.

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Whheeeeeeeee! Creative Dream Incubator starts Monday!

By Andrea Schroeder / January 11, 2013

“I want to tell you that Andrea’s work, if you commit to it, is magic.

Honestly Andrea’s understanding of the Alchemy of bringing magic into the world defies description but I go on at every opportunity about how awesome she is and I am big on telling the truth!”

Jane

We start on Monday!? Just a few days away!? If your soul is calling you to create something in your world – that there is a Creative Dream and this can help you bring it to life, with EASE and JOY.

If you would like to play, make magic + grow dreams with me in 2013, click here to sign up today.

If you sign up today, you can have the whole weekend to get settled in the group and be ready to dive into the deep magics of Creative Dream Incubation on Monday.

If you have any questions about the Creative Dream Incubator, hit reply to this email to send them to me.

“Hey, Andrea,I just wanted to write and let you know how amazing the Creative Dream Incubator is being for me.

Crazy-awesome changes keep happening, and obstacles that I thought were surely blocks are just melting away like butter.“

Jenny

“Dear Andrea,

I just wanted to write and say thank you thank you thank you for the Creative Dream Incubator.

It changed my life.

I was stuck in fear and resistance and getting buried under an ever expanding pile of self-loathing because of it. And when we got to Module 4…everything shifted. I realized that my fear didn’t mean that my dream was “the wrong one” or that I wasn’t “good enough” or “brave enough” to go for it. I realized that my fear was just…fear. And if I moved through it everything would get better. So I did. And it did! And taking that first step shifted EVERYTHING else.

I meant to keep in touch in the final weeks of the CDI (and to write this sooner)…but everything was MOVING and I was trying to keep up with it. So much was…and is…happening. And it’s amazing.

I feel so different now than I did at the start of the CDI.

I see more magic everywhere. I’m handling setbacks with more calm and determination. I have more faith in my dream. Even my parents have noticed a difference!

Thank you for bringing this beautiful dream of yours into the world. Thank you for your gentle, kind, and supportive presence. You are amazing, and you are doing such important work.

Much love,”
Meg

You can see what other Creative Dream Incubator graduates have to say about the course right here.

PS: this week’s Creative Dream TV was the best episode yet: all about how to make the path to your dream EASIER, and more fun. If you missed it, watch it now:

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