A dream is an aspiration or fantasy. We need dreams. We need them to invent the future.
A Dream Project is a little different.
A Dream Project involves action. It’s what happens when your idea meets reality. It’s the actualization of your dream.
We want to write a novel, but we’ve never written more than a 5,000-word essay. It’s hard to envision getting from where we are to where we want to be. And it’s harder to believe that we might be the sort of person that can do it.
The dream is to self-publish a novel. The Dream Project is to draft 50,000 words by June 30, 2024.
The dream is to go on a national tour with your band. The Dream Project is to finish the music for your album by December 1, 2024.
The dream is to have your own fashion line. The Dream Project is to complete four looks by June 30, 2024.
To translate your dream into a Dream Project, ask yourself this question: What could I do in the next six months with ease and in ten minutes a day?
We can envision journaling memories for 10 minutes a day. We can envision 30 days of answering prompts each morning. That we could do. And once we’ve done that, once we’ve shown up every day for a month with small consistent efforts, we look at a fattened notebook, feel a little teeny bit of pride, and think, “Well, I could keep doing this.”
Then we read through what we’ve written and notice a few inflection points, and then a few more memories emerge and we keep going.
The dream is to self-publish a novel. The Dream Project is to draft 50,000 words by June 30, 2024. What will your Dream Project be?
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