I'm sending an email to all Dream Book members with just the important details, and writing this here for anyone who wants to read the whole story.
Let's start by saying: These are intense times.
When the pandemic first hit North America, I was delighted that the tools I was teaching for how to do Inner Work to navigate fear/unconscious sabotaging patterns/self doubt/those times when everything is foggy and you don't know why.... those tools were working for the new "pandemic overwhelm".
And then a little deeper in I saw - more and more people are not able to keep up with the pace of this program.
So I created a new option to turn off the lesson emails (and still get emails about live calls, etc) and just work through the material at your own pace. And an option to re-start the email series time you want.
And I was very encouraging about not following the timeline of the emails. I'm not teaching math here, this is 100% non-linear.
And not the neat and tidy "it's a spiral journey!" kind of non-linear but the actual total chaos of healing and growing your way into a dream. Being in your process matters so much more than following any kind of timeline with your dream.
And then 2022 happened.
It's harder than ever for most people to engage with the deep work that your dream needs from you.
AND our dreams are calling louder than ever.
I've been reaching out and asking Dream Book members to speak to me, to share what parts they struggle with.
And, since I know the whole program so well, I could offer them different approaches to take that would work for where they are.
And I could look at what was happening for people in a broader sense, to see what needed to change with the structure of Dream Book.
At first, I created three different "paces" for the program:
The current pace was re-named to this:
I am ready to blast off! I have the time and energy to do this!
There ARE people in the group that the current set-up is working for, and I didn't want to change anything for them.
And then I created a slower pace:
I am ready to begin but let's take it slow.
Which felt like it was honouring where most of our capacity actually is and created a balance between "not being able to do your dream exactly how you want" and "not giving up completely".
And then for the people who were too overwhelmed for that, I also created this one:
I want to do this but I'm overwhelmed. Let's start with space-making and healing.
This is completely different content. It's VERY content-light and self-care-heavy, to meet you in those places where you feel flattened and help you fill yourself back up.
Once I got into the creative process I refined this some more.
As I was deciding HOW slow the slow pace should be I realized - it's irrelevant.
SHOWING UP is all that matters. Getting you into your process is all that matters because once you're there you'll find your right way, and pace.
Now - Dream Book is a MONSTER of a program. It's EVERYTHING you need for the inner AND outer healing AND growth that your dream needs from you. AND it's a way of journaling that helps you turn your journal into a map that helps you get to where you want to be.
I always had checklists on the website to help you get started, but in these overwhelming times, just looking at a monster of a program can feel like too much, and make it hard to focus on the checklists.
Once you're INTO IT, of course you WANT the whole monster because one day the problem is self doubt and the next day you want to work on developing more momentum and the next day you're procrastinating and yes you need different tools for each thing.
So I simplified the checklist.
Going back a minute - at the time when people first wanted to do this self-paced without the emails, what I did was copy all of the emails (124!) onto the website and create a checklist out of them so you could always see where you were.
Going back further - I first created the Dream Book content AND THEN I created the year-long series of emails guiding you through the content.
But it's more complex than that because Dream Book draws from another program of mine - Creative Dream Alchemy. The way I describe it is: Creative Dream Alchemy is the magic that powers Dream Book.
Creative Dream Alchemy is a library of tools for Dream Work, Inner Work and Outer Work.
Remember when I said Dream Book is a way of journaling that helps you turn your journal into a map that helps you get to where you want to be. In order to walk that path - you are going to need these other tools.
So sometimes in Dream Book instead of a specific lesson about Dream Book I ask you to use a specific tool in the library of Creative Dream Alchemy.
One of the things I am doing there is encouraging you to create a practice of using the tools. If you're stuck - use the Un-Sticking Station, don't just stay stuck. If you're doubting your dreams, use the process for doubting your dreams, etc. I encourage you to remember that the tools are always there to use AS YOU NEED THEM, not just as they come to you in the Dream Book lessons.
Years 2 + 3 of Dream Book are more around using the tools to support you in going deeper into your own process.
Back to my point about simplifying the checklists:
Some of these email lessons pointed to Dream Book lessons. Some of these email lessons pointed to other tools on the website and asked you to work with them in specific ways.
So.... some of the lesson emails are not actually needed, for those I put those Dream Book lessons into the checklist instead of the email-turned-into-a-web-page.
Some of the lesson emails ARE needed, so I left those as they were.
It reduces the number of pages you are reading, and checkmarks you have to tick off.
As I said - it simplifies the checklist, which is a small thing but actually makes it feel different.
Then once I had that realized - the pace is IRRELEVANT so why create a slow pace?
Creating the fast pace and slow pace is still defining "fast and slow" and they're NOT relevant in ANY way.
Depth is what is relevant and each person measures that in their own way.
So then I decided to NOT create a specific pace for that middle option - the "let's take it slow" because everyone will just take it how they take it.
The original email option - the "I have time and energy and am ready to really do this" option - will still exist. It will be presented as "IF you have time and energy and IF having 2-3 emails per week lead you through feels helpful to you, then sign up here"
But NO pace - NO emails leading you through - can make it really easy to not follow through.
That's why I first designed Dream Book the way I did - with artwork and encouragement in the emails as consistent reminders about your dream and all the magic that it has for you.
Luckily in Dream Book there is another option.
I write on our private blog (The Daily Miracle Mastermind) every day, Monday - Friday, to share what I am doing in my process.
This blog used to be where we'd work together, in the comments, and members would share what was happening for them. But in the last few years it's gotten more quiet as more people have switched to emailing me when they have a question.
So I am going to encourage people back to the blog, and back to leaving questions/thoughts in the comments where they can connect with other members outside of the live calls.
It makes sense that so many people turned inward in the last few years. And it makes sense to re-connect now.
So I will encourage everyone who is NOT doing the Dream Book lesson emails to sign up for the private blog by email, and in those emails will be artwork and encouragement and links to join us in the comments AND a link to the Dream Book checklist which you can work through at your own pace.
And the Space-Making program:
There are times when we are just too overwhelmed to engage with our dreams, no matter how much we want to.
The work of taking care of ourselves and refilling the well IS THE WORK YOUR DREAMS NEED FROM YOU.
The way I see it, it's all the same. And you can use Dream Book for navigating the process of re-plenishing yourself.
BUT
When you're overwhelmed it's hard to find your way.
So I did create the Space-Making program, which is light on content and heavy on self care.
We focus on creating a space-making practice which can start as small as staring at the wall for 1 minute. If you can stare at the wall for 1 minute, you can begin the process of MAKING SPACE for yourself and your dreams.
It's got 8 lessons the help you find you way in to a gentle dream work practice.
And, same deal as Dream Book - you can guide yourself through it on the checklist or you can sign up for it via email - you get an email every 3-4 days.
This feels really good to me.
Dream Book ALWAYS wants to shift and re-configure to be able to meet people where they are.
YOU are the bridge between your dream and the world, your dream work practices need to be do-able where you are today AND transformative/generative so they help you create the future you want.
I recorded myself reading this blog to you! I LOVE it. Though - it's SUPER rainy and I thought the rain falling might add a romantic touch, it just sounds staticky. So - next time I'll wait for the rain to clear, but I am loving this idea of reading my blogs to you in this way:
I help people get un-stuck and yet I still get stuck.
I do have an inner critic who is all "Seriously?! How can you keep saying you can help people when YOU are so stuck right now?"
These inner critic voices are SO black + white that they miss what is actually happening. They don't care about truth, they care about saying something that hits in such a way that it STOPS you.
It's true, I've been feeling super stuck with a lot of projects lately.
And the people are work with in Dream Book are more stuck than ever!
Not all of them, but more people than ever are writing to me to say "OMG ARRGHGHSO I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING!!!!"
So I've been writing a lot about being stuck, and about navigating transformational times.
I've been creating a new program called Space-Making which is a super gentle and do-able way to start to make space for yourself, and your dream, in your life. A way to ease into Dream Book for those times when you are too overwhelmed to really get into the work of dream-making.
I'm creating this because I still believe in our dreams and want everyone to find their way in to the magic of really deeply working with your dreams.
And I love the ways that people's dreams have changed over the last few years.
But back to the stucks.
Yes, I'm stuck with a few things right now because being stuck is an important part of the process.
Being stuck is where you look at things from different angles.
Being stuck is where you make space to FEEL your feelings... process them, learn more about yourself, and find our more about what you're really made of.
Being stuck is where you get real with yourself about the ways that YOU get in your way.
Being stuck is where you get real with yourself about where people in your life are in your way, and if you're brave you will start to set new boundaries.
Being stuck is a pivotal point.
This idea that you can take one step after another and go all the way from where you are to where you want to be without ever getting stuck - this is a fantasy that is holding you back.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOTHER STUCKS because it keeps you from starting until you can see that clear path. That clear path doesn't exist so you will never actually start, but you won't feel upset by that because you are believing the lie that you are "waiting for the right time".
If only our stucks came with neon signs that said "Transformational experience here! Stop and look more closely at this!"
Which is, actually, my job. I hold up that sign and offer the tools that help you transform the stuck.
And even still, sometimes we will look at the tools and say "Oh, no, no this isn't an "opportunity for transformation" this is an outer obstacle and I need to just sit here and wait for someone else to clear it for me. Surely life will be less crazy in a few months."
The only way out is through.
We can sit with a stuck for years.
I had one for about 15 years - it was this idea that "I'm just not into business" and "There isn't a way to do the things I want to do and make enough money to live well".
I had these ideas that people with amazing work GET DISCOVERED.
I had hope that one day some kind of manager would find me, and take care of the business parts for me.
So I kept doing my work, on the side while working in an office after the starving artist thing became too stressful.
Until the time came when I decided to look at that stuck more closely.
It's funny for me now to look back at when I was SO SURE I could never do what I do now as my way of earning a living. I've been doing it for 11.5 years, and it feels like the only way I want to be in the world.
We are wrong about SO. MUCH.
So I look back to that, remember how sure I felt and how wrong I was, and ask "What am I wrong about now?"
There actually are an infinite number of paths that lead from where you are now to where you want to be.
You can only see the options that your current perspective will allow you to see.
And your CAPACITY plays a big role in how large your perspective is.
And I think we're all struggling with capacity issues right now.
AT THE SAME TIME
When we can find ways to NOT let this shrink our dreams, this is actually a time of HUGE NEW possibilities.
To dream BEYOND what we've dreamed before.
It's really stressful to have inflation rising out of control and increased civil unrest everywhere and attacks on our democracies and a war that threatens to pull most of the world into it and a pandemic that rages on while watching climate happen right in front of our eyes.
When I say I'm excited about dreaming BEYOND what we've dreamed before...
I am not talking about DREAM BIGGER! Seven figures is the new six figures!
I am talking about DREAM TRUER! We can create a whole new way of doing this life.
I am seeing so many people doing this, like:
- Creating collaborative ways of working instead of trying to build the biggest business in the least time.
- Holistic practitioners taking an honest look at the cultural appropriation in their training, and working with Indigenous people to clean it up and create new ways of doing things.
- Art as a vehicle for activism.
- Coaching as a vehicle for activism!
Shifts are happening.
It feels like a whole new movement of healing and creativity is springing up. One that is focused on activism, anti-racism, disability rights, honouring everyone's unique gifts. One that is deeply rooted in anti-oppressive ideologies and consciously looking for how to be as intersectional as possible.
It feels, to me, that the new age movement (including holistic wellness, yoga, life coaching) was attempting to do all of this without doing ANY of the deeper work of understanding what white supremacy, colonization and privilege actually are, and so without ANY understanding of how we draw on these oppressive ideologies and systems in how we do EVERYTHING. And so all it was was the colonization of Indigenous spirituality in various forms.
But now, we are starting to wake up.
We are starting to see new possibilities, which were always there, but hidden in our considerable blind spots.
This is the time for dreaming the new world into being.
So, then I come back to where I started: holy shit I feel so stuck with so many projects right now.
But now - all I feel is possibility.
A stuck is an opportunity for healing and transformation. Doing this work frees up new energy for the dream.
As always, you are welcome to do this work with me in Dream Book. This is my comprehensive program for how to create the path that leads from where you are to where you want to be, by engaging more deeply and directly with the Inner Work and Inner Growth (I call the inner GROWTH the Dream Work) that your dream needs from you, and then using the energy freed up in that work as fuel for the outer work.
It's comprehensive. It's complex. It will help you heal and grow beyond what you believe is possible right now.
This was my practice this morning: painting my feelings.
I have a lot to say about this process of space-making. I was writing about it all weekend.
But today, that's not what's in me to share.
Today I want to share that I woke up anxious.
And so I made myself a latte and a green smoothie (well it came out red because I added a few slices of beetroot) and sat with my feelings and this is what came out.
I found the light. I followed it to a place where I was able to soften my body and mind, and offer myself some advice about slowing down and being more present with myself
A lot of people feel anxious right now.
I didn't have an issue with anxiety before the pandemic. I have one now.
Lots of people don't feel anxious but to worry or feel stressed or are just overwhelmed.
This is where we're at, collectively and yet a lot of people are feeling alone in it. I want you to know that you are not alone.
And the world is asking us to carry on as though this is not where we're at.
A space-making practice is a way to rebel against that.
It's actually a way to create a better world, both your own personal world and the larger world that we share.
Space-making helps us find the softness in the hard places. And those soft places do tend to come with dreams attached. Ideas for new things we want to create or new ways we want to be or experiences we want to have. The softness shows us the way.
The first step is to honour how you're feeling.
Give yourself the grace of making space to be where you are.
How do you feel right now? Where is that feeling in your body? Anywhere else? What's the story running through your mind?
Is there any light to be found? What might help this all soften? What do you need right now?
Tomorrow - Monday, April 18 at 10 am Central - I will be on Instagram live for Creative Genus Planning Sessions for this week.
If you go to this Instagram post on your mobile device you can set up a reminder to join us live, or catch the replay on my page later.
We'll do a short feel-good meditation for starting the week and a discussion about navigating your next steps.
This week I want to talk a bit about those times when you have no clue what to do next.
These are not times to stop!! These are actually times of transformation.
I have a lot to share about this and I know it will be a great discussion.
The last few weeks I've been working more closely with the people in Dream Book who feel ready to give up.
With everything that's happening it's like why even bother?
But beneath that "why bother?" story are a LOT of complex layers of feelings.
And giving up is real fuel for our inner critics and their "See? I told you you shouldn't have tried. Of course you failed" stories.
Giving up is not your only option.
People are FEELING LIKE giving up is the only option because they don't have the capacity to work on their dreams in the same way they could 2 years ago.
And when you're overwhelmed it's easy to not notice that THERE ARE OTHER WAYS. You don't have to choose between doing things that feel impossible and giving up completely.
These times call for new ways of engaging with ourselves, our creative projects, and our biggest dreams for who we want to be and what we want to create.
We can approach Creative Dreaming as a HEALING practice.
We can approach Creative Dreaming as a SELF CARE practice.
We can approach Creative Dreaming as a SPACE-MAKING practice.
I have been writing all weekend.
For the last two years, my writing time has been really stiffled because I don't have the mental clarity + capacity to write like I used to.
This weekend, it's kind of back because I am SO inspired by looking at all of the places where people tell me they get stuck, and creating new ways through.
The places where we get stuck are opportunities for growth.
I have a free healing circle called The Hard Parts Are Where The Magic Happens where I show you exactly what I mean by this.
And this approach that I have been teaching for a long time has worked for a long time... But right now, with all the stress in the world, more and more people are just not able to get into it.
So as I have been working with those people more closely, I am seeing ways to add more gentleness, slowness, self care and magic to make the work DO-ABLE even when you feel absolutely flattened.
And as I did that I realised.... oh wow these are the practices I have been doing too!
I have been doing them seperate from Dream Book, but as I look back (hindsight is 20/20!) I see that this is the work that helped me, over the pandemic, continue to engage with the deeper dream-building work in Dream Book.
So I am creating two new options for Dream Book:
One is for when you are completely overwhelmed. The focus is healing, self care and space-making. Instead of giving up, you can focus on healing and self care as forms of MAKING SPACE for your dream.
One is for when you are ready to take your next steps with your dreams, but you've got a busy life or you're going through stuff, so you have limited time and attention for this work. You don't have to put your dream aside completely to take care of yourself.
And the original Dream Book will be called the "I am ready to BLAST OFF!" version for when you DO have the time and energy to dive deep into your next-level dream-making. This pace is ideal for wellness practitioners, healers, coaches and guides. But if you're new to this work and have a LOT of time and energy to devote and want to dive right into the deep end, this is also a good place to start.
It doesn't matter where you are are.
Your dream is always here to help you heal and grow.
To give yourself what you need now AND move yourself towards where you want to be.
I hope to see you tomorrow on the Instagram live.
Yesterday I made a new video about Dream Book and how we've been navigating everything since 2020.
The goal has NOT been to make sure everyone "stays on track" with their dreams and goals! Though anyone who has wanted to do that has been supported in that.
For most people though, the goals and dreams have changed, figuring out how to navigate the pandemic, physically and emotionally, suddenly became a priority.
But the tools stayed the same. The work stayed the same: Meeting yourself where you are and moving towards where you want to be.
It's just that there's a lot more overwhelm, exhaustion and heaviness to work through these days.
And I gotta say - NOT working through it feels like a really bad option. These last two years have been traumatizing, and doing nothing to process all of your feelings means they are going to be impacting you for a very long time.
Unprocessed feelings DO dull our dreams and our whole lives.
Lately, with where we are now, it's all gotten heavier, so I am shifting gears a little.
For the people who can engage with it - Dream Book remains a program that will help you build the path to your dream, handle all of the inner work of facing the places where you hold back, even all the stuff that's in your blind spots that you don't know about, and then help you GROW into the version of yourself that can navigate that path that leads to where you want to be.
But not everyone can engage with all of that right now and that is completely understandable.
For the people who can't engage with it because that's just too much - we're focusing on SPACE-MAKING.
I'm creating the new Space-Making program - though "program" is maybe the wrong word as this will be in VERY small doses so it can be done when you have NO capacity, because it can help increase capacity and make space from where you are. I guess "support system" is a better description.
And while I am creating that, I am inviting ALL Dream Book members to email me, let me know where you're at, and I'll help you come up with some tools/practices/support that are immediately helpful for your self care and help you shift towards where you want to be.
This is NOT a time to give up.
I have been working with a few people who had given up and are coming back to it and have all of the impacts of giving up to work through now.
Giving up on your dreams doesn't make everything else easier. It doesn't sooth overwhelm or bring lightness to the heaviness of the world.
What it does is add some new heavy layers of feelings. For some it's shame, grief, sadness, disappointment, that "see I knew you'd fail" kind of thing.
It's ALSO not the time to carry on as you had been.
Obviously.
I don't think anyone has that kind of energy and mental clarity right now.
But those are NOT your only options. This is actually an ideal time for CHANGE.
WHAT IF you were working on your dreams as a healing practice?
WHAT IF you were working on your dreams as a self care practice?
WHAT IF there was no pressure or timelines or perfectionism?
WHAT IF this was a way of bringing JOY into your life, right here right now, while also setting your future self up for MORE joy?
This is what our dreams have always been asking of us.
This is what Dream Book has been encouraging you to do all along. Your dream is here to HEAL you, GROW you, and bring you the JOY of being who you really are.
But you know that "how you do anything is how you do everything" thing? We bring a lot of shitty patterns into how we approach our dreams.
We can stop doing that.
In fact, not like I like to should anyone, but I think we SHOULD stop doing that.
There is a much better way.
So here is that video:
And here is Dream Book. Send me an email when you join and we'll work out your unique way of getting into all of this.
I had such a great meeting this morning with my dream and the soul of my business.
I had this jumble of ideas and wishes in my mind and they showed me how to put them into a mindmap that answered all of my questions.
And from the mindmap I created a list.
And know I know exactly what I want to do, and exactly how I want to start doing it.
So. I know exactly what I want to do and exactly how I want to start doing it....
And then this feeling comes over me.
I try to push it aside and keep going. There is more I can add to the list, or I can start doing the things on the list...
And then I find myself scrolling social media!
I bring myself back to the list.
And that feeling comes back. It's uncomfortable and I'd like to just push it aside...
But that's not how it works.
Feel all of the feelings that come up for you on the path to your dream.
This is one of the eight principles we work with in Dream Book. If you are following all of the principles, you can't stay stuck. If you are doing the opposite of the principles, you're likely to be quite stuck.
I had to admit at this point I almost switched back to Facebook. But I am Staying. With. It.
OK - this feeling that comes over me when I look at this list.
So - it's a part of my process and I need to be with it.
So. Hello there, uncomfortable looming feeling.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to LOOM" it's like a tiny version of me, and she's holding some really big thing... it's kind of vague but almost like a huge tube, like 3X her height as the diameter and she's trying to drag it somewhere.
Hey, let's put that down. I take the tube and gently set it down. I pick her up and sit her on the tube so now we're at eye level to each other.
What's up?
"Well, this is just all A LOT. I mean you have a very big list here and I agree this is a list of wonderful things and it would be wonderful to actually DO them all but also I have to say, I mean I'm sorry, I know this gets SO uncomfortable here, but the thing is, I have to say it...
I don't think you're going to DO all of this. I think you're going to start strong and this will become one more abandoned thing. Oh! Ouch! I'm sorry! I said it! I know it pains you."
Two things happened for me here:
I realised that yes there was very much a part of me feeling afraid that I Wouldn't DO all of these things.
And I realised that this was a little silly because I complete LOTS OF THINGS. And then I don't complete projects - it's because I got what I need from them already, or because something else feels more important. It's fine.
And in a WHOOSH I felt fine with not completing every project and could stay in this conversation holding that perspective.
Well actually, that vague looming discomfort probably pains me more, because it derails me completely and has me distracting myself instead of doing what I truly want to do. So I'd rather face the harder stuff head on and work through it.
"That's? Good?" She really seems to not want to upset me.
Yeah, that's good. I think I may be stronger than you think. Like a LOT stronger. Like I CAN handle having feelings.
"Oh? What?" She is completely befuddled.
Yeah, I actually would rather feel my feelings than avoid them, because this way I am FREE. Freedom is really important to me. I need to feel free enough to do what I want to do - like all the things on this list. NOT feeling my feelings keeps me a prisoner to them.
"Holy crap, I never thought of it that way" Now she's grown a little taller and heavier and so her weight is pushing down on the tube she's sitting on, keeping us at eye level. She leans over. "This is fascinating"
So, it seems like you are a part of me who hasn't been paying attention for the last, like, 20 years. Maybe you are my 28 year old inner "child"?
"25"
Oh, yeah ok that makes sense. So here's the thing: feeling those uncomfortable feelings that loom over me helps me actually MAKE SPACE to actually DO the things I want to do and actually has helped me not be so stuck in general. Feeling feelings is really good! Like I even go to therapy just to talk about my feelings because I love it. I pay for therapy, I love it that much.
"Oh wow"
Yeah, it is really cool. Listen, I want you to see how much I have overcome, the things you struggled with - I do not struggle with. Yes, I have other things going on and the world is a fucking disaster right now but YOU GREW AND HEALED.
She kind of gasped, to look at me and really see where I am/we are.
So I don't need you to be trying to do anything for me. I'm not sure what it is you were trying to do with this tube?
"It's a pipe. Like a pipeline." Now she is fully the same size as me, just sitting beside me with the pipeline beside her.
What were you trying to do with this?
"Trying to make a pipeline to take these uncomfortable feelings away from you."
Ahhh. Yeah. That's exactly what you do that makes things harder for you.
She gets up and kicks the pipeline and it disappears.
She gets it.
And I feel... ready to go do these things.
After a week in bed sick with Covid, I woke up this morning ✨feeling good✨
I still have some symptoms and will need to keep resting but I feel ⚡️alive⚡️again!
I even had an honest to goodness EPIPHANY in my Dream Book this morning. I had a thing I was working on, which was feeling very complicated and I didn’t know how to handle it and suddenly I saw how to turn the PROBLEM into an ALLY and know I feel EXCTED to work with this former-problem-now-ally.
It's not that I feel like I NEED to get back to work. (In fact I will very much be easing SLOWLY back into work and doing a lot of resting for a while)
It's that working/playing/exploring with my dreams makes me feel more ME. More inspired. More alive.
Please DO NOT give up on your dreams.
I know, Covid or not, everyone is overwhelmed and right now can feel like the worst time to pursue something new.
But listening to what's calling you, following what feels MOST INSPIRING AND ALIVE right now always leads to more aliveness and joy and healing and growth - all the things we need most right now.
For a lot of people I work with, dreams are rapidly changing right now because WE are rapidly changing right now.
So I am seeing less " I want to scale my business to 6 figures as quickly as possible" and more "I want to REST and PLAY more while also making the money I want to make"
We're all dreaming of more self care and gentleness and feeling good.
The problem is that we judge the SHIT out of our dreams.
We ESPECIALLY judge the dreams that are not all about outer-world accomplishments and things that can be measured.
So - can you NOT do that?
Can you listen to what's calling you and do your best to answer?
PS: I hope you'll join me tomorrow on Instagram Live for a discussion with my friend Chris Zydel about navigating this transformational time. Go to this post from your mobile device to see the time in your time zone, and set up a reminder notification.
I've got Covid last week and I'm pretty sick so there won't be a live Monday meditation + planning today.
Instead, I recommend:
- Last week's meditation + discussion on creative dreaming in a dystopia
- The week before we did one on filling up on good energy for the week
- The 15 minute Creative Genius Planning video for planning your week from your most wise, brave + creative self (that's the one I listen to every week while I do my planning)
This Thursday I'm doing a special discussion with my dear friend Chris Zydel about change, healing + creating a new world.
Please join us! It will be live on Instagram at 1 pm Central on Thursday, March 31.
Go to my Instagram account from your mobile device to set up a notification to get a reminder to join us.
You can't look outside of you for hope.
I mean - there's so little hope to be found out there right now that it's depressing to try.
But mostly because - we're here to BRING IT.
Hope and light and creativity and new possibilities.
This is your work.
This is the theme for today's Creative Genius Planing Session - on Instagram Live.
How do we be force for positive change while the world is a dystopian nightmare?
If you are on this planet right now you have a role to play in creating a good future for everyone.
And if you have a business - your business can play a role as well.
Join me, let's explore this together.
Monday Morning Meditation (AKA Creative Genius Planning) is happening at 10 am Central, on Instagram live.
If you go to my Instagram account from your mobile device you'll be able to set a reminder, and also see this in your own time zone.
And you can catch the replay on my page after we're done.
(These live public meditations are only on Instagram, but I will be doing a more in-depth free class on Zoom soon - stay tuned for details)
I've been having this conversation with a lot of the creative helper people, light-shiners and way-showers.
How do we keep showing up for our work, while the world is falling apart?
And for people who are not self employed it's still a difficult question.
How do we be force for positive change while the world is a dystopian nightmare?
If you are on this planet right now you have a role to play in creating a good future for everyone. And if you have a business - your business can play a role as well.
This will be the theme of the Monday Morning meditation next week!
Join me, let's explore this together.
Monday Morning Meditation (AKA Creative Genius Planning) is happening at 10 am Central, on Instagram live.
If you go to my Instagram account from your mobile device you'll be able to set a reminder, and also see this in your own time zone.
You can also check out the replay from this week's Monday Morning meditation here. The theme was filling up on good energy and fuel for your dreams, which included a great conversation about taking good care of ourselves.
And if you're feeling so flattened by everything that you can't even think about this, I have 2 free courses that help: