Looking for posts on the discipline of dreaming? Look for this image. Here’s the overview of these posts:
Knowing what you want. Definition. It should be the easy part, right? Creating the ideal scenario? But things certainly do get in the way, and it takes courage, conversation and open challenge to get beyond preconceived bias or fears in rapidly changing environments and get firmly planted in the new ideas that will most impact. I envision dreaming as time spent in a valley. Not the proverbial “death valley” with it’s dark implications, but a comfortable green valley walled around its edges by tall, majestic mountains with legendary oceans just waiting on the other side. Notice I didn’t say safe or best or easy. Comfortable…as in familiar or known. There may be mosquitoes and even very real dangers but they are known and establish a consistency that offers a perceived comfort. I say perceived because very often what is our normal, our comfortable can seem fairly chaotic to someone looking in. When we live in the valley of dreams, we can look everywhere and see possibilities but we are required to focus on none of them. The challenge here is choosing a specific direction. A particular mountain to climb. A mountain that is worth leaving the beautiful and comfortable valley. How does one choose? What if we’re wrong? Why do it at all? Is it worth the cost? All this and more is explored under this image and the banner of DREAM.
