One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 31

One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 31 Recovering a Sense of Possibility

LESSON FIVE: It’s Time to Dream

It’s New Year’s Eve again. It only seems like yesterday I was sitting here at my desk dreaming about 2015 and its possibilities and now we’re in the final hours.

I’ve never been one for New Year’s Resolutions and find that setting the direction I want to go is more helpful. I’m not saying I don’t have plans or goals, but designing a life and setting a course is not about a once a year list of resolutions. We are setting ourselves up to fail if we do that.

Recovering our sense of possibility means we need to dream. But more than dream, we need to explore, imagine, escape and believe that it is possible to live the life we dream of.

My friend Amanda Viviers has created a wonderful tool to help you review your 2015 and launch into 2016 with a new sense of possibility. You can download the PDF here.

Yesterday’s post was about an artist’s need for planned creative solitude. I think New Year’s Eve is a great time to dream and take some time for some creative solitude. (Before or after the party of course!)

Today I’d like to encourage you to try Amanda’s 2016 New Year Questions and continue to dream, or learn how to dream again.

You may like to try some of these exercises to get your dreaming going.

I love this quote by Steven Spielburg:

I don’t dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.

As a writer, mother, wife and traveller through life dreaming is part and parcel of my daily work practice. If I don’t dream, I don’t create. Recovering a sense of possibility gives me the motivation to keep on creating, keep on living, keep on travelling and constantly adjusting my sails in the direction I want to go.

This is the gift of a sense of possibility. I pray that as you begin 2016 with a fresh sense of possibility your dreams will not stay dreams.Your dreams will become a reality.

Happy New Year!