Are you doing your DREAM WORK?
The 29 Gifts Advisory Board met last week at my mother’s house in Nebraska and one of the assignments we all have is to write about our dream work. If we could fashion the most creative and joyful day, week, month what would you spend your time doing? Imagine time money and other resources were unlimited.
When I ask myself that question, so many things come up in answer:
I want to write more books and tell more stories.
I want to make movies.
I want to collaborate with other artists and professionals who can help push my work closer to wowness.
I want to inspire and motivate other budding artists to make their voices heard and work seen.
I want to exist in an environment that allows me to be present and available to family and friends.
And that is just the first five things that come to mind. I’m sure a well of words will burst free when I sit down with my journal.
This is my gift for today. To share this DREAM WORK WRITING EXERCISE with you. If you try it, feel free to share your ideas and insights with us by commenting on this discussion.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Johnson on -
First of all, thank you for sharing this exercise. Lately, my mind is constantly racing with doubt and guilt about what I SHOULD be doing, instead of what I COULD be doing. I've edited my original post, as I got a little off track with the first one.
Inhale....Exhale...
1. I want to create artwork in a home studio
2. I want to bring security and comfort to people and animals in shelters through my own non-profit organization
3. I want to write a feature column in a major newspaper
4. I want to write murder mysteries that become a TV series
5. I want to create a travel website to market our cottage on the tiny island of Saba, give Caribbean travel and food tips, and sell Caribbean-themed artwork
6. I want to own a travelling bus restaurant with my husband operating on several islands in the Caribbean
7. I want to be like Bess Nelson when I grow up and be available to my family and friends as Bess has been to hers. Bess is my beautiful neighbor who passed away last week (Blog coming soon, as she was a gift that I will greatly miss)
8. I want to live on several acres of land where we can have lots of rescued animals and a bountiful garden
9. When my time comes, I want to leave the world a better place than I found it and I want no regrets.
Time to start making some things happen...
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Permalink Reply by soso68 on -
i can't imagine all those ideas but for me i want to help all my friends especially supporting is the most important poit to me because this means you'r not lonely but you have someone sahre everything with you.
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Permalink Reply by Dawn wwt on -
what a great idea! we certainly won't make our dreams come true if we don't name them first. i will do this exercise soon and then share with you all. Cami, i'm glad you're feeling better physically and that you are in a nurturing environment close to family and friends. i didn't realize you were sick, guess my head was up my hoo hoo. sending you good thoughts and prayers...Hugs, Dawn
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Permalink Reply by Sharon D-29 Gifts Ambassador on -
I want to:
*have enough money to give it away to help people help people!
*counsel and do speaking engagements to women that have addictions, are battered, sexually abused and abuse others.
*seek to raise women's self esteem by teaching them to love themselves and do what makes their heart sing.
*travel, and take stunning photgraphs that would be worth framing.
*take in animals that need training and be an extention of Cesar Millan and whisper to dogs.
*place dogs with owners who respect and love them enough to set boundaries.
*start Sewing Hope groups in every county in the USA.
*fill the hearts of battered women and their children with HOPE, SELF ESTEEM and SELF WORTH.
*write books that give hope and inspiration to people reaching for it.
*volunteer at everything I do, cause I do not have to work!
-sharon
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Permalink Reply by genuine, wwt, welcomer on -
If time, money, and all resources were unlimited how would I want to spend my time??????
hmmm ....
I want to teach others the things I have learned.
I want to read all kinds of books.
I want to make children laugh and I want to make them feel loved, make them feel important.
I want to take photographs.
I want to make scrapbooks full of memories.
I want to visit new places.
I want to go on a retreat ... and spend time communicating with God.
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Permalink Reply by soso68 on
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i agree with u sweety, but sometimes i did this in my imagination ; why????????????because of time and duties. But at last a person can live in such a wonderful world for some minutes.
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Permalink Reply by Harriet on -
This is a beautiful exercise and wonderful to share, thank you. I am sure my list could go on forever, I love to dream, thinking off the top of my head....
1. I want to help all adults and children learn to read, so there is no "illiteracy".
2. I want to inspire my children to have them believe they can do anything and be anything they want to do and be.
3. I want to travel the world with my husband and experience all cultures.
4. I want to fill the world with kindness and eradicate evil.
5. I want to be physically, mentally and spiritually "fit" for my own well being.
6. I want to be an advocate for women's heart disease,
7. I want to hear God's voice everyday and follow Him.
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Permalink Reply by soso68 on
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indeed i am with you but for no. 3 it can't be happened except in my dreams for certain reason; husband's way of thinking but for the others i think i can do it in my society
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Permalink Reply by Lacy on -
Yes Cami, thank you for this. I dream about so much, but so hard to write it down......
In my lifetime, I want to...
~ scuba dive
~ learn sign/foreign language
~ volunteer at the Special Olympics
~ celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
~ act in a movie
~ discover a cure for Cancer
~ be a contestant on Jeopardy
~ swim with Dolphins
~ spend a month on an island in the middle of nowhere & enjoy the solitude
~ run the Boston Marathon
~ learn to play the piano
~ forgive all the people that have wronged me
~ get down to a size 2 ~ Ha !!
~ visit my homeland countries of Ireland & Germany
~ get my book published that I have been writing
~ be happy with just the way I am
~ be stranded on an island with Bret Michaels :O)
~ become a world renowned chef
~ go on a safari
~ meet Nelsen Mandela
~ see "IL Divo" in concert
~ own an animal shelter for abused animals
~ out-talk Howard Stern :O)
~ read the entire Bible
~ learn to "not sweat the small stuff"
~ play tennis with Martina Navratilova
Those are but a few of my dreams...:)
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Permalink Reply by KYC on -
You can read the complete "Bible in 90 days"...that's actually the name of the book...available at any Christian book store. All the best!
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Permalink Reply by Mary Johnson on
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Thank you, KYC. I'm going to get this book.
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Permalink Reply by genuine, wwt, welcomer on
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You guys are giving me ideas; I want to do some of the things on YOUR lists : )
I quickly wrote my list last night. Later I thought back to it and realized I left something off ... perhaps the most important thing/the thing that I want most. Why did I leave it off?? I'm not sure if I did that consciously or unconsciously .... I didn't even think to put it though it's what I want most. Perhaps because I don't think it can/will ever happen :(
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