AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM FOR 2017. HERE'S IS HOW
If I were to ask you, what's your dream for this year, and you took some time to think about it, what would it be? If you didn't listen to the voice that shuts down your ideas, that tells you that dreaming doesn't pay bills? If you dared to dream the biggest dream, even if you believed it's utterly foolish and impossible?
My big impossible dream for this year is to... publish a book. I know. Who doesn't dream that, right? Now - I'm almost completely certain (99%, give or take) that I can't possibly publish it this year. I have about a third written. I never wrote a book, let alone publish it. I have no connections whatsoever to the book publishing industry. BUT.
I have a history of concoting impossible ideas, and of pulling through. So by now I do believe in impossible dreams.
When I was in my last year in college in Bucharest, I told a friend that I wanted to get a job and move to the US. Rightfully so, she said "how will you do that? There are 3 million other people in Bucharest who're trying to do the same thing right now. What makes you more special than them?".
"What makes you so special?" I've heard a lot worse. My own mean and scared voice called me much worse things in the past, you know what I mean? But reality has its own way of teaching us wisdom. Seemingly against all odds, I did get an interview for an internship in NY about a couple of months later, and about 6 months later I moved to New York City.
Another impossible dream was to find the man of my dreams in NYC. I did. And we married 9 months after we met, that same year. Fast forward a decade, my next impossible dream was to go away for a year with our family, which meant quitting our jobs. We did it. Then, I dreamed to be independent, and be my own boss. Fast forward two years later, here I am, free, and my own boss.
What makes you so special? I'll tell you what. It's opening up and listening that voice that you can feel in your stomach and in your throat. It's more than a voice. It's a deep feeling that I've felt every time I had an impossible dream. It's the wise serpent goddess that, according to Kundalini yoga ancient wisdom, uncoils and raises your head, and awakens your soul. As the subtle force raises through your body from the lowest to the highest center, your energy and belief system will be fundamentally transformed, describes Jospeh Campbell in "Reflections on the Art of Living" (this is the book I'm studying this month, and from which I'm quoting in each post lately).
You have a dream. Here is what you do. Ready?
After doing corporate strategy work for almost twenty years, I've learned how big, impossible goals get achieved by the big players out there.
Let's break down that dream into big buckets. For me, it's two buckets: 1) finish writing the book, and 2) publish it. Go ahead - write down your 2-3 buckets under your dream.
Next, under each bucket, break down your steps. For example, under bucket #1, I have "write another 145 pages". Remember that my impossible dream is to finish and publish a book this year? As impossible as it might be, if somehow I want to have a chance to publish it, I should probably finish the book by end of March. Humor me. That means, I have 3 months to write 145 pages, which breaks down into about 2 pages a day, if I write every day. So my clear intention is to carve out about 2 hours a day to write at least 2 pages a day. Looking at my dream from the perspective of very tiny steps, all of a sudden doesn't seem quite that impossible, right?
Sure, there is a lot more to publishing a book than writing 2 pages a day. But it's how I get there. It's my ticket to the first stop on my way to a destination far far away. As I aim to write those two pages each day, I might write more, or less than that. But as I do write, my belief in my dream begins to shape. I can begin to imagine the possibility of achieving my dream. I begin to carve out my vision. I believe it now. I can almost see it happen. I have a shot.
Go for it, and I'd love to hear what your dream, your buckets, and your daily intentions are. Let's do it! All for one, and one for all!
hugs to you all
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