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I said I was going to do my Dream Status Reports on Sundays and forgot all about it yesterday so here I am at the coffee shop with my Dream book 2026 on Monday morning.

First, I checked in with last week’s report and was kind of stunned to be able to check off ALL of the tasks I had given myself for last week.

The week before I did't check any off. Which felt so defeating I almost didn’t want to make a list for this week… but it turns out I had done enough on each task last week that finishing everything this week was easy.

And maybe I shouldn’t put a little square beside the tasks indicating that I want to check it off and be DONE.

Maybe it should just be a list of things I am holding + working with + contemplating... Because giving things more time and space can help them grow and evolve and sometimes my projects really benefit from that extra time and space.

Sometimes, of course, I should just get a thing done, sometimes it would be good for me to stop procrastinating.

So that’s what’s on my mind: how am I holding my tasks/projects/ideas?

Early in my business I would plan out at least 6 months in advance, new courses I wanted to make and promotions and all of it.

Then I would get increasingly stressed by how far behind I would get. In hindsight I know I didn’t have the experience yet to know how long all these things would take. I was planning more based on how much money I wanted to make and how much money each class was likely to bring in, because that’s what business planning taught me at that time.

Also, I had an unwieldy business model and didn’t know it. And unrealistic expectations. And so many things working against me and yet… I figured out a lot of things by just diving in and figuring it out as I went.

So, I guess, I am telling myself that I didn’t make MISTAKES with planning before - I just learned in kind of a messy way and that’s ok.

But these days I try to stay so far away from stressing myself out with my own plans that maybe I go too far in the other direction?

I mean, as I write that, my whole body says NO YOU DON’T!!!!

We are programmed in so many ways to work as hard and fast as we can.

Some people call the form of capitalism we live under EXTRACTIVE capitalism in reference to how we try to extract all we can from the earth in order to turn it into profit. And how unsustainable this is - it is literally destroying the future in front of our eyes and the machine isn’t slowing down in the slightest.

So, considering that extractive capitalism is a system we live inside - we can notice that the system also treats US, people, as things to extract from. Corporations extract our labour and turn it into wealth. And all of the self employment advice is either about doing that too - hiring people in other countries who will accept a very small salary so that you don’t have to do all the tasks - or about life + creativity hacks to get the absolute most and best work out of yourself.

To extract your own creativity and turn it into productivity and wealth.

Some days I do feel like a mountain that’s been overly mined.

And I have this commitment to not do any of this to myself any more, as much as I can possibly avoid it.

And yes, ALL OF THIS is what comes up as I contemplate how I feel about checking off all the boxes from last week. It’s not just about “YAY I DID IT” it’s about “Am I giving myself enough SPACE to do the work I want to do in a way that doesn’t deplete me?” And then, of course, juggling the reality of needing to make a living in the meantime.

So, yes, checking off boxes is a really complicated thing. But I am happy to have checked them, and to be asking myself in this week’s Dream Status Report: What’s next?

Because NOT being intentional about our lives is not the solution to anything!

 

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