Dream.

Know what you want.

Definition. Specifics. Beginning and end.

It should be the easy part, right? 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 core ideas or destination hat will most impact your life.

I envision the journey of 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 in the valley 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 comfortable valley. How does one choose?  What if we’re wrong? Why do it at all? Is it worth the cost?  What would it take for us to journey out?

All this and more is explored under this image and the banner of DREAM. If you would like to focus on these posts, look for the green valley image OR go to the menu and click DREAM to see them all in one place.

NOTE: DREAM is the first phase of the ddr Momentum Cycle and encompasses the phase of Initiate and Planning from the PMI five phases of a project.