creating dreams come true: preparing for success

it’s sunday – which means it’s creating dreams come true day. creating dreams come true is a free ongoing e-course and creative community to support you in living your dreams. if you are new, please feel free to join in. the more creative dreamers the better!  we are really getting into the thick of it now, starting to shift on the inside towards our dreams, while defining, on the outside, what it is we want to do.

because we anticipate fantastic success with this, next we want to prepare for that success to come in.  preparing for success sends out a message that we are ready for success and we welcome it into our lives.  i see this as opening the door to success.

we want to find a way to track and measure our successes.  often we have all sorts of small successes here and there but when we don’t account for them, we tend to forget about them.  when we account for them, we acknowledge them and celebrate them which creates more of a sense of success within.  that feeling of success will go on to fuel more success.  we can get caught up in a cycle of success that will carry us right into our dream come true.

what we don’t want to do is get caught up in measuring our value through our performance, or in measuring our success through external events.

what we do want to do is notice how many ways we already are successful and build on that in creating more of the things we want.

to explain further:

if i am only a success if i have a certain number of people attending my workshops and my paintings sell for a certain amount of money and i get this specific job and i exercise this many times per week – then i may be setting myself up for failure.  and i may have a long wait before i have any successes to report, which will probably generate a sense of frustration and failure.

if i look at the positive of what is happening, (ie – if i wanted 50 people at a workshop, but 25 show up, i can celebrate the 25 that were there instead of feeling like a failure over the 25 that weren’t there.) if i celebrate each step along the way – then i am setting myself up for greater and greater success.  as i continue to report and celebrate my successes i start to see myself as more successful and i find it easier and easier to take the steps necessary to create the big dreams that i really want.  taking this approach also makes the whole thing more enjoyable.  who doesn’t enjoy being a success?

does that make sense for you?  please comment below if it doesn’t and we will discuss it as this distinction is quite important.

so how will you track and measure success?  a few possible ways:

• start a “success tracker” blog post and every week look at what went well and add it there.
• start a new journal that will be your “success journal”.  you can also add photographs and mementos of your success.
• put a sheet of poster paper up on a wall in your home and call it your “success wall” and write your list there

with all of these, it’s important to commit to regular updates.  at the end of each day, or each week, however often works for you, take a few moments to think about what has gone well and add those things.  or when something really great happens add it right away!

next week i want to hear about how you have set up your success recording system, and see a link to it, or a photo of it.  i’d also like to hear about what you are doing to bring your dreams into reality.  are you setting up appointments, making new contacts, opening saving accounts, registering for classes, researching, creating, making commitments, scheduling time to dream, taking really good care of yourself… what are you doing to move towards your dreams?

creative dream check-in:

let’s share our assignments from last week.  this will be either the “this is my life” list or the map from create a map: a simple guide to creative visioning.

i am giving up on mr. linky for now, as he was crashing too often, so please share a link to your list in the comments below and remember to go visit each other.  it’s so much more fun when we do this together! also please feel free to share about your experiences in doing the exercises.

here is my map:

the full map

path to dreams come true

i really loved working on this.  i set up a creative exploration station in my living room.

creative exploration station

what a treat to spend some time really diving into the feeling and beauty of my dreams and intentions for 2010.

what a powerful experience it is, to take time out of our busy lives to think about dreams and dream about dreams and plan for dreams to come true.

once again, i am so grateful for each one of you joining me in this.  we are generating amazing creative dream energy here!

andrea schroeder creates creativity workshops, downloadable creativity kits, art and guided meditations to support you in knowing and remembering that you are a creative being and you can create anything.

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