Tag: Dreams

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

How do you dream? Is it with a notebook and pen, tucked into a backpack, out on a trail? Or on the back of a napkin at the bar? With your earbuds in at Starbucks? Or on an elliptical? Is it in a long , long distance phone call (aside…are long distance phone calls still a thing?)? Or with your eyes closed as you drift off to sleep?

The point is… it doesn’t matter how, but rather if, you dream.

That is, if you regularly give yourself space to get lost in the “excitement of possibilities.” Because it is here – in the “leaps of imagination” – that new ideas are born, connections are made, plans are hatched. Never, ever, underestimate the importance of dreaming.

Action:

• Reflect on your preferred method of dreaming: where have you had some of your best ideas in the past? Where do you feel your most relaxed, clear-headed, inspired?
• Consider how often you’re carving out time to dream? Do you feel you’re giving dreaming enough time & energy? If not, what is getting in your way?
• Consider how you can create and automate more opportunities to dream. How might you hold yourself accountable? Who might you enlist to help?