I have a dream...now what?!

By Selina Barker

Out of last week's visualization exercise I finally created a dream for my year ahead that leaves me totally inspired...

A year of intense and fruitful creativity: I create a book, set up my own business, contribute to all sorts of exciting projects and business developments and begin to write and paint seriously - discovering a style and medium in which I can really express myself.

So I have a dream...but now what?!

It's usually at this stage that I lose interest. I'll get caught up in the fantasy for a few weeks, talk about it, day dream about it, imagine what it would be like if I were really living that life... and then it fizzles out, the dream is forgotten. By the following week I've moved on to a new one.

I love to dream, life in the fantasy world is easy, making it a reality is a whole different ball game. It takes guts, discipline and a great deal of self-awareness and strength to overcome the shitty committee that dwells in my head with it's regular commentary of ‘this is impossible, you can't do this, you don't know how, you're being ridiculous, let's go have an ice cream and forget all about it...'.

But this time I'm not willing to archive this dream with the rest of them.

It's time for action. And I'm not going to allow any voices of fear, doubt or laziness hold me back.

I've made a deal with myself: Every time those voices of doubt and resignation pipe up, rather than stop and brood, like I normally do, I'll respond by getting straight into action.

If I do that every time a veil of doubt starts creeping over me I'll have a book published by Christmas!

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