How a dream project feels

The great letting go

Dream Projects are a leap. They don’t come with a download of instructions for completion (though we will try to give you some pointers). They require us to trust ourselves. To trust that we can figure it out, that we’ll find what we need. Dream Projects require us to believe that we are capable of caring for an idea and making it real.

A Dream Project is important and valuable simply because it is yours and it is possible.

Honor your dream, honor yourself. When you care enough about something it shows. It shines - you shine. And that light is contagious.

Dream Projects are self-honoring. They never ask you to abandon yourself. They require you as you. Not who you might be one day or who you wish you were or who you might pretend to be. 

Dream Projects are like hopscotch. Little hops forward. Small steps. Dream Projects are the decision to sit down and write after the baby is asleep. Dream Projects are the choice to get out of bed and into the pool before dawn on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Our Dream Projects might be grand, but our efforts are typically small and common. Dream Projects are repeated actions. Dream Projects are an everyday pursuit.

Dream Projects are not hand-me-downs. They are not somebody else's. You might receive an idea from another person, but for it to be a Dream Project you must desire and embody the role of caretaker. Your father might believe that becoming a physician is a good Dream Project for you. You may choose to go to medical school. You are the only one who can say whether becoming a doctor is your dream and even then, it’s not the doctor part that is the dream.

It is the pursuit and the practice that lead you to the promised land. Not the outcome.

Dream Projects are not outcome dependent. You have to do the thing regardless of whether it succeeds or scales. You cannot force the outcome. Dream Projects are a great letting go.

What do you know to be true about Dream Projects? We’d love to hear in the comments below.