I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.
Doing this, consistently over time, IS MAGIC.... AND... Consistency is hard for most of us these days! So - I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.
*Membership members: this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!
This week I really did GET IT TOGETHER in so many ways.
The last few months I have been on a real JOURNEY when it comes to looking at my habits and routines and the structures that support my dreams.
I over thought things. I got lost in my feelings about things.
Which is good! Because I was really IN IT, exploring everything. This is what it looks like to really BE IN THE ALCHEMY OF IT. To create space for real and lasting healing and transformation.
Then this week it all came together and I knew what to do. This always happens when you stay in the process long enough to get to this part. (Remember that one of our principles of Creative Dream Alchemy is: it takes the time it takes)
BUT getting to the place where it all comes together - doesn't necessarily look like you think it will. And that's where I am now.
Looking back at this year, each week I've learned a little thing and applied that little thing and then the next week learned the next little thing...
All these little steps got me here, to a place where I feel like I AM getting it together, I love the routines, habits and structured I'm at... AND... it's just not like what I thought it would be like.
That's partly aging! I have different needs and preferences as I age and different things work.
And it's partly the ways the world is changing. And this can be a hard one to see in real time, because we're not in charge of how the world is changing, and we tend to try to hold on to the things we love, to the things that work for us, etc.
The other day I was with my mom and we drove down the street where I used to work downtown, when I worked in an office, over 15 years ago. We were saying "Oh weird" because the food carts weren't out. This particular street used to be lined in food carts every weekday from spring to fall. This particular street has a lot of office buildings on it and people would come out for lunch. EVERY DAY the sidewalks will overflowing with people at lunch time. It was like this for years.
And now it's just - not.
I thought about how a lot of office workers are working from home now. And how so many of our office buildings downtown are empty. At the same time when these buildings are empty, we have more unhoused people than ever, and keep having even more every year. There are these Downtonwn Biz workers who, 15 years ago, were out cleaning up trash, watering the flowers, etc. These days it's not uncommon to see them administer Narcan to people who have overdosed.
It was just such a stark contrast, remembering this same street how it was 15+ years ago and how it is today.
The world has changed so much, and there is this one part of me who wants to not notice this, and wants to figure out how to get me to perform and produce the same way I did 15 years ago.
Which is never going to happen. Though it's a valid feeling! It's a valid wish, for that one part of me.
It's not what I want though. I don't want to go back I want to go forward.
And I'm so grateful for all the ways I have explored my own routines and structures so that I can figure out... what really works NOW, for who I am today and the world as it is today. I feel like I have space to go deeper into my creative and spiritual work now.
I am not turning a blind eye to what is happening in the world. And I believe that seeing what is happening includes seeing all the GOOD that is happening. All of the movements for positive change. All of the activism. All of the ways we are collectively waking up and starting to shift towards better ways of doing things.
I feel so hopeful for a better future for everyone and I feel so PASSIONATE about the role that meditation and journaling and CREATIVE DREAMING need to play in the creation of a better future for everyone.
I filled seven pages journaling about my dream status report today, and all of the things that came up for me as I did that.
So much is percolating. I am going into this new week feeling intensely grateful to have ROUTINES that feel like they can hold me as I continue to explore and create.
And SO EXCITED about Spring Cleaning for your Creative Dreams happening this week!
Where do you want to be at the end of 2026?
Let's make a plan that gets you there - WITHOUT overwhelm or over-working. WITH self care and soul.
Spring Cleaning for your Dreams is Live on Zoom. May 27. 1:00 pm Central - replay provided.
Members can get the call details here.
AND! There's an option to do this WITHOUT signing up for the membership subscription!
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