Yesterday I was looking for a letter and instead I stumbled upon an old journal that I had from the years 1993 to 2001. I began flipping through the pages and I found a page dated 12/25/2001. On the top of the page in green ball point pen was the word DREAMS with a cloud surrounding the outside of it. Then underneath that word were 5 bullet points:
Get Married
Become a therapist
Perform My Music
To be an authentic Music Leader
To Love as Christ Love
I do not remember writing any of these or even why I wrote them. However I can say that I have accomplished two of them. The last one is a daily dream. I have performed songs I have written in front of groups of people in a presentation. I was also a music leader throughout my college career. I still strive every day to Love as Christ Loves, so that dream will live on every day!
What I realized though, was that I wrote these dreams down back in 2001 (10 years ago), and I filed them on a shelf. I wrote them, I left them in a book, put the book on a shelf, and forgot about them. I say all of this because how many of us have dreams that we “put on a shelf”? I did! In the past 5 months have I started to dream BIG again.
This Friday with a team of mine I am going to be creating a dream/vision
board.
“A dream/vision board is powerful because, when you start assembling pictures that appeal to your deep self, you unleash one of the most powerful forces on our planet: human imagination. Virtually everything humans use, do, or make exists because someone thought it up. Sparking your incredibly powerful creative faculty is the reason you make a vision board. The board itself doesn’t impact reality; what changes your life is the process of creating the images — combinations of objects and events that will stick in your subconscious mind and steer your choices toward making the vision real.” – Martha Beck
I am super excited to visually display all of my dreams and aspirations where I can be reminded of them daily. Too many times we judge ourselves for not accomplishing a dream in a certain amount of time, such as my first dream written above, to get married. I am 28 and many of my friends are married and have been for some time. I can choose to give up on that dream and put it on a shelf or I can leave it out and live my life to attract what I want. Also, with many of my dreams I create the scene in my head with my senses. For example when I say the dream, “I want to get married, I close my eyes and I see an ivory dress, I see red shoes, I see three of my closest friends, I hear laughing, I feel the butterflies in my stomach, I see the smile on my face and I feel the way my cheeks hurt from smiling so much. I see myself dancing at the reception, my hair left curly and swept up loosely. I see a man in the distance smiling and I see the ring and the faces of my family, it is warm outside but there is a nice breeze.” When I open my eyes, I think to myself, “anything is possible.”
In my room growing up I had a picture of a ballerina and at the bottom of it, it said…
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward
I challenge each of us to put the above quote where we can see it and begin to believe it. What are your dreams? What do you want in the deepest part of your being? Can you see your dreams, do you envision yourself fulfilling your dream?
Have a super day everyone!!!
Rebekah Chavez
e/d Teri Johnson
Get Married
Become a therapist
Perform My Music
To be an authentic Music Leader
To Love as Christ Love
I do not remember writing any of these or even why I wrote them. However I can say that I have accomplished two of them. The last one is a daily dream. I have performed songs I have written in front of groups of people in a presentation. I was also a music leader throughout my college career. I still strive every day to Love as Christ Loves, so that dream will live on every day!
What I realized though, was that I wrote these dreams down back in 2001 (10 years ago), and I filed them on a shelf. I wrote them, I left them in a book, put the book on a shelf, and forgot about them. I say all of this because how many of us have dreams that we “put on a shelf”? I did! In the past 5 months have I started to dream BIG again.
This Friday with a team of mine I am going to be creating a dream/vision
board.
“A dream/vision board is powerful because, when you start assembling pictures that appeal to your deep self, you unleash one of the most powerful forces on our planet: human imagination. Virtually everything humans use, do, or make exists because someone thought it up. Sparking your incredibly powerful creative faculty is the reason you make a vision board. The board itself doesn’t impact reality; what changes your life is the process of creating the images — combinations of objects and events that will stick in your subconscious mind and steer your choices toward making the vision real.” – Martha Beck
I am super excited to visually display all of my dreams and aspirations where I can be reminded of them daily. Too many times we judge ourselves for not accomplishing a dream in a certain amount of time, such as my first dream written above, to get married. I am 28 and many of my friends are married and have been for some time. I can choose to give up on that dream and put it on a shelf or I can leave it out and live my life to attract what I want. Also, with many of my dreams I create the scene in my head with my senses. For example when I say the dream, “I want to get married, I close my eyes and I see an ivory dress, I see red shoes, I see three of my closest friends, I hear laughing, I feel the butterflies in my stomach, I see the smile on my face and I feel the way my cheeks hurt from smiling so much. I see myself dancing at the reception, my hair left curly and swept up loosely. I see a man in the distance smiling and I see the ring and the faces of my family, it is warm outside but there is a nice breeze.” When I open my eyes, I think to myself, “anything is possible.”
In my room growing up I had a picture of a ballerina and at the bottom of it, it said…
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward
I challenge each of us to put the above quote where we can see it and begin to believe it. What are your dreams? What do you want in the deepest part of your being? Can you see your dreams, do you envision yourself fulfilling your dream?
Have a super day everyone!!!
Rebekah Chavez
e/d Teri Johnson