(#4 in the series: Are You A Dreamer?)
Sometimes dreams already exist inside (As far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to…) whereas other times you consciously develop a dream (In a few years, I can picture being…). In either case, exactly what are you supposed to do with a dream once you have one? Read more
(#3 in the series: Are You A Dreamer?)
I was sitting toward the front of the room, ready to be attentive to the speaker. Before he began, he did a surprising thing. He invited the audience to “get distracted”…to allow our minds to wander off during his talk. I pictured being the speaker. Didn’t he want us to listen carefully to the points he had prepared? Then he explained his rationale. It wasn’t that he didn’t want us to listen, however, if we drifted off, he wanted us to notice where we were going. He said that this is often how the creative mind – divine inspiration even – speaks to us. His invitation to get distracted was actually an instruction to pay attention to the ideas that occurred to us during his presentation. Read more
(#2 in the series: Are You A Dreamer?)
“I used to dream when I was younger but that got me into trouble.” I knew what my client meant. The “trouble” to which she referred was prior disappointment at dreams proven unrealistic. This kind of past experience can obstruct our ability to conceive of alternatives to current situations. We often limit the scenarios we’ll even consider and prematurely filter out anything that seems too far-fetched. Read more
When Martin Luther King Jr. boldly projected these four words at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, he was not only permitting himself to have a dream, he was also inviting, empowering, and daring others to do the same. His vision was for an entire country, yet it also included a personal dream for his own children: that they “will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. Read more