{creating dreams come true} planting new seeds

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 finishing up our fourth month of creating dreams come true! wherever you are in the world, let’s say it’s spring in creating-dreams-come-true-land.  we are seeing new dream shoots sprouting up and the trees are covered in buds that are ready to burst.  there is a spring-has-sprung vibe in the air around here.

what is really cool about spring is that we get this chance to see what is starting to come up, and if we planted something really special last fall that isn’t there yet – there is still time to plant more seeds.

so are there any new seeds you would like to plant?

or any old shrubs you want to dig out?  or do you want to move things around a little?   or even start a new garden?

spring is a great time to do any of this.  to take a look at your overall plan, take into account your current growing conditions, and see where work needs to be done.  to do this, we’re going to go with the gardening analogy.  i really love the gardening analogy because it’s sweet and i love gardening, but mostly because it puts *you* in the position of gardener – the one capable of making the garden grow.  yes you need mother nature’s sunshine and rain also but you, as the gardener, have the ability to work with the weather conditions and give the garden what it needs to really flourish.

just as you have the ability to give your dreams what they need to flourish.  you can work with the conditions in your life to create space for dreams, you can nourish dreams with positive thinking and affirmations and creative community, you can create thriving dreams come true.

this week’s assignment is to do a dream spring check-up.

the assignment has three sections: thriving, struggling and unwanted.  each section asks you to answer a question and then use your answer to create a list and a plan.

spring dream check-up:

section one: where am i thriving? what seeds are sprouting beautifully?
list: dreams for me to continue nurturing
plan: what do these dreams need to continue to thrive and how will i give it to them?

section two: where am i struggling?  which seeds aren’t coming up (yet)?
list: dreams to plant again
plan: how am i going to plant them? what can i do to get these dreams moving and how will i do it?

section three: is there anything unwanted starting to sprout?
list: areas where weeding is necessary
plan: what will it take to remove these weeds?  how will i do it?

you can also download the questions in a worksheet format:
spring dream checkup

don’t worry about it if you can’t answer or everything or come up with workable plans right away.  you can share your progress next week and we’ll all support each other in this.

creative dream check-in

last week we learned to see ourselves as pure unadulterated magic. we learned that we can relax into our dreams.  did you experiment with this at all last week? are you starting to see and experience and feel that you are a powerful creative being? that you can do anything?  and that it doesn’t have to be stressful or hard?

please join the comments below and let us know where your dreams are growing and flowing and where they’re stuck. also share any questions or ideas about this week’s topic.

my check-in:

i am feeling back on track with my health and movement dreams.  i’m walking lots, and doing yoga, and i even bought a pair of sketcher’s shape ups and i’m certainly feeling a difference when i wear them on my long walks!  i’m also continuing to find new healthy and yummy groceries that are easy to turn into quick meals.  this is an area of my life where it really helps me to stop, be present, and remember to relax about it.  it’s when i tense up or am busy or not present that i start to make unhealthy choices.  when i am relaxed and happy i make healthier choices.

i am making fabulous progress working on my creative with money creativity kit.  i really love what i’ve got so far, which is only about 10 pages of writing and 8 paintings.  but i have a great plan and i just love seeing it coming together, and also the ways it changes and grows as i work on it.  it feels so good to be creating something that feels like it will be so darn useful to so many people!  i love where my money explorations, discoveries and experiments had led me and am excited to support others in creating greater abundance for themselves.

i am also learning that I WORK BETTER WITH DEADLINES.  ak!  i don’t want that to be true.  i want to be all freely floaty flowy with my work but the truth is i work very very very slowly that way.  and then i get frustrated because i’ve got all this great stuff i want to get out there.  and the only thing in the way is the pace at which i work.  so being toooo relaxed actually creates stress via this frustration!  and so – i’m giving myself a deadline for creative with money: to have a rough draft of the writing done by next weekend.  i’ll let you know how that goes.  (note: this is not a strict “i will have to stay up all night working to meet it” kind of deadline.  this is a “i’ll have to spend a few hours each day working on this” deadline.  like a relaxed deadline)

and i’m sewing!  i’m really doing it!  i made a pattern for a summer top and then made the muslin (like a draft of the actual top – to check the pattern out before making the good one).  and even though it was so fun to be sewing again on my old machine, it made me realise that it’s time for a new one.  and so i got myself a pretty fantastic gift, the sewing machine of my dreams along with the embroidery module and design software which means…. it can embroider *anything*.  i’m very excited about all of the possibilities here.

this is too much sewing machine for my dining room table, so i am creating a sewing area in my dressing room, which i think will be really sweet.  between the re-arranging of furniture to make that happen, and having inherited some of my grandma’s things, and having gotten behind on keeping the house tidy while things were so dark – my house is a crazy mess!  so i am doing some spring cleaning.  when my house is calm and clean and organised i can breathe deeper and dream deeper so i look forward to getting back there.

and i am making time for fun – this weekend i’m in fargo, north dakota with some friends.  we’re here for the roller derby.

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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