You have to choose: perfect or possible [Dream Status Report]

I am siting down to do 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.... this is where your dream becomes REALITY. This is where you stop and notice: How am I showing up? Is this working for me? What else might be needed? This is where we figure things out!! There is so much we can learn by witnessing our own process.

AND... Consistency is hard for most of us these days! So - I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it here, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

I TRIED to do this on Sunday, here it is Tuesday morning and I am just getting started.

I am sick! But even if I wasn't, and even some weeks when I'm not sick, it can take until Wednesday or Thursday even to do this.

It's fantastic when I DO do it on Sunday and start the week feeling like I know how to hold onto my dream. I love when that happens!

But if I ONLY do it when I can do it PERFECTLY... then I won't do it that often then it's easy to just... stop doing it.

Giving yourself permission to do it messy and imperfect means giving yourself permission to REALLY ACTUALLY DO IT.

Because the magic that will make your dream REAL comes from showing up consistently over time. This means you have to show up all the times when it's just kind of boring or something feels off or you're annoyed, etc.

(This does NOT mean you should keep doing a thing if it doesn't feel like the right thing for you. That's different - if a particular approach doesn't feel like a fit then find a different approach! Your feelings are guiding you AND you have to keep practicing how to interpret your feelings - resistance is lying to you but there can also be a kernel of wisdom in it. It's nuanced.)

When it comes to creative dreaming, if you only really SHOW UP for your dreams when you feel 100% - that will never work. You have to learn how to HOLD your dream in the chaos of your life.

Which means that usually you show up imperfectly more often than perfectly.

All of that "waiting until you can do it RIGHT" is just delaying your dreams.

Diving into the MESS is where the magic is.

This morning, as I do a very imperfect and messy at answering all of the prompts in the Dream Status Report,  I realised... holy shit. I have been on a  real Hero's Journey this whole year. So many health problems, so many complications, so much time waiting to see specialists.

By HOLDING ONTO MY DREAMS ANYWAY while the conditions in my life have felt totally wrong for dreaming... I have learned whole new ways to root my dreams!

Root my dreams? I've never thought of it in that way, but that's how it feels. My dreams are seeds, and they can be hard to root into certain terrains, so they can be hard to grow. But this year I learned new ways to root them! The ground beneath can be unstable AF and I can grow stable roots.

I am not where I'd hoped to be at this point of the year, if you're just looking at the outer work part....

AND I am astonished at how strong these roots are.

AND I am astonished at what feels possible right now.

Answering these prompts on Tuesday instead of Sunday still brought me what I needed. A total re-frame of where I am and how I got here. Which is also a new perspective on what to do next!

Creative Dreaming in THIS WORLD is MESSY AF.

We never dream in a vacuum. We always dream into the world we live in.

The idea that some time there will be an "ideal time" to focus on your dreams is just not true. We have to learn how to root them into this world, as it is, and as everything keeps getting more fucked up.

If you're in the membership, and you're struggling with this - please let me know! Hit reply to this email or post in the forum. Let's figure out the simplest way you can HOLD SPACE for yourself in the process of holding space for your dream.

Once you are showing up consistently the alchemy starts to work, but what it looks like to "show up consistently" might look really different right now than it has when the world was less on fire all around.

There ARE ways to hold onto our dreams in the mess.

We may have to experiment a bit to find them. I am really happy to explore this with you especially as this is what I am working on for the new program: Your Creative Dreamer. It will start Dec 21. So as I am working on it, it's helpful for me to dive into how things are working for you.

 

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