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What are you up to today? Let us know in the comments!

Tell us what you're working on, struggling with, ask questions, share your goals, etc, in these daily posts. This is a great way to put stuff "out there" where only people who "get it" are going to see it.

On Fridays I post my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. The prompts are here. You can do them with me, or do your own thing.

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I feel like a broken record, but today sucks too.

I really tried! After a few months of the sunrise slowly getting earlier, shifting from being on my walk while the sun rises to waking up with more and more light... to be plunged back into the darkness just sucks.

But this morning I was determined. I got up in the dark. I got ready to go and went for my walk to the coffee shop... but it is SO slippery out there and every step I took ,my whole body said NO I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS. I stopped, tried talking to myself "Hey, don't you think we'll feel amazing once we get there? Can we think about how great we feel after walking there and back?"

But, no. I was not feeling it. After 5 blocks I turned around and walked home.

But being back home I was still crabby and everything is going wrong.

So for my practice I did: Slow the fuck down! BE as powerful, creative + magnetic as you are.

Ahhhh! Being in that bubble of light in the beginning felt like everything. My light was yellow today and I want to keep this with me all day. Being in my own space, having the light holding space for me.

And the message I got: BEING as powerful creative and magnetic as I AM does mean accepting that there are bad days. It means accepting reality and working WITH it.

I also started to feel REALLY RELLY GOOD about the "creative dreaming is a practice" book/workbook I am creating.

I just put some "invigorating" essential oils in my diffuser.

I can support myself in feeling good AND accept that I'm not feeling 100% today.

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Another rough morning.

This time change feels really brutal. Plus spring allergies seem to be starting - even while we're still buried in snow? And life just seems to have a lot of details that need handling that I don't want to handle.

I woke up feeling so fuzzy and tired, I went back to bed. I laid there and did the Slow the fuck down! BE as creative, powerful and magnetic as you ARE meditation. I didn't want to get up to get my phone to listen to it, so I just imagined it as best I could.

That helped, but I am still here in that "I DO NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING" mood so I am going to meet this part of me in the Un-Sticking Station.

Hey there, I see you are crabby today and don't know what to do with yourself?

I know what to do with myself! I want to eat ice cream and watch movies!

Oh. I see. What do you think about getting this work done now, and then we can do that later?

No.

Yeah, I thought so. So can you tell me more about why you want to eat ice cream and watch movies? What's going on with you?

I just feel so annoyed by everything. I want to turn off the world. I want that joy of creamy ice cream on my tongue and the escape of a good movie.

Oh. Yeah I can see that. Can I tell you what I want?

Yeah ok.

I want the joy of feeling "on track" with my plans. And that feeling of freedom and happiness I feel when I am drawing on my iPad, working on that project. The thrill of satisfaction of seeing progress. Feeling ALIVE!

Yeah, I get that. I like those feelings too. But today I'm not feeling it.

I see that. I worry that if we go into "ice cream and movie mode" so early in the day, the day is going to start to drag. I'll feel low energy all day. If I do some work, maybe get some exercise, eat the salad and chilli in the fridge, I'll feel more energized and happy.

Hmmmm. That part of me is just fading away.

I can't connect with it. And I don't feel it pulling at me.

It feels like it recognizes the truth that doing the things that make me feel ALIVE and energized and happy really will make me feel better and it wants to feel better.

So now?

Now my dream shows up as a peacock.

It's like... strutting around. Enjoying itself. Enjoying life. Shaking.

Oh! SHAKE IT OFF.

A bunch of things happened this morning that were bringing me down. My dream is saying: I can shake them off and enjoy my day.

OMG HAPPY UPDATE

IT's 11:15 am. I DID do that one task that felt impossible: sending out a marketing email...

BUT THEN I also wrote up FOUR MORE!!!! They are formatted and saved as blogs, emails and Instagram posts so I can send them out twice a week for the rest of the month.

OK, I do feel alive and awake. Even that part of me that just wanted to eat ice cream and watch movies is happy about this forward movement.

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Nothing is working today.

I am sooo tired, I did not sleep well, I am disoriented from the time change, we had a sudden snow storm on the weekend and now, after it starting to feel like spring we've been plunged back into winter. My back is sore from shovelling at my parents' house, I am distracted and foggy.

For my practice I started my weekly planning page in my planner - looking over what I didn't finish last week and what my logical next steps are. And I am meeting my dream:

My dream shows up as myself, wearing a dress I am currently dreaming of making, sitting outside in the park on a beautiful spring day.

I say: Hey listen, I feel so sleepy and stuck today. Everything is foggy and I wish it wasn't and I don't know what to do. What advice do you have for me?

She gives me a big hug. It feels like a big of an energy transfer, though not enough to make me feel the way I want to feel.

"Every day isn't a dream. Take care of yourself. Watch a movie, and work on the drawings for the Creative Dreaming is a Practice book. You don't have to have a clear head to do that part. Do the meal prep you didn't finish on the weekend, because not having nourishing food ready to go is a part of the problem right now. Tidy up a bit because that will make you feel better. Today can be a "prep day" for feeling more clear, inspired and happy tomorrow."

That feels good.

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What are you up to today? Let us know in the comments!

Tell us what you're working on, struggling with, ask questions, share your goals, etc, in these daily posts. This is a great way to put stuff "out there" where only people who "get it" are going to see it.

On Fridays I post my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. The prompts are here. You can do them with me, or do your own thing.

Get the calendar of upcoming calls here. | Get your next Dream Book lesson here.

I noticed something this morning: I feel lost every time I put the Outer Work ahead of Dream Work. But I still do focus on Outer Work first.

Like, I sit at my desk and I want to know what I am going to DO and ACCOMPLISH. And this is a valid feeling!

And I do have a list of things I wanted to do this week...

But STARTING THERE isn't good for me. But, even knowing that, I WANT TO start there. I crave this simple, linear path that I know just does not exist.

I looked through my Dream book, realized I still really need to do an updated Project Page. So I started there.

Once I wrote out my current + future project ideas, I started making pages for my current projects and just journaling about them. How do I feel about them, what do I want for them.

This felt very clarifying.

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I just DECIDED that today is magic.

And I am treating it like it is.

I decided to take the bus this morning to a place that's a bit too far to walk. I missed the bus - I could have run for it, but the sidewalks were pure ice and I didn't want to risk it and I decided right there that standing and waiting for 10 minutes would be magical.

And it kind of was. A chance to take a breath. Think about my day. Think about what I want. And even thought it's very cold, appreciate the spring sunshine.

But, now that I am here, with coffee and my tablet and ready to do what I wanted to do... I am feeling unsure.

So I am doing the Creative Dream Alchemy Process For Bolstering Your Sense of Courage as my practice today.

Starting the meditation: I feel so frustrated! I set out to make this day MAGIC and now, not even an hour later, I'm annoyed and feeling stuck. I want to set intentions and have them WORK, damnit!

The Field of Creative Dream Alchemy is kind of a beach, different layers or depths of energy, different colours, it's all very soothing. I sit down and relax into it.

My inner courage is sleeping.

I shine the light on it and she wakes up and stretches.

I think about how I want to be courageous in a whole different way than I ever have. I mean - isn't this ALWAYS true? As we grow, courage means different things.

Right now, it's GROUNDED and STABLE. I think back to when I started my business and I was reaching for something, creating something. Now I have something I've already built and I can stand proudly on it.

The light keeps shining. It turns pink.

My courageous self is awake and sitting on the bed. "Oh nice, I am so well rested and ready to do stuff now"

The light keeps shining on her and she's just feeling ready to stand in her truth.

It feels like she's been sleeping for a while to acclimate to all of the changes over the last many years.

She seems so grounded and calm. I notice how in the past sometimes my courage is very ENERGETIC like I need to put a lot of energy behind it to stay in it. And now it feels calm. I love this.

Then we get to the part where the light changes and we are ENERGIZING and ACTIVATING courage.

I am in a coffee shop so I am not doing the part at the end where I step into my courage, but I am sitting tall and visualizing it. It feels expansive AND grounding.

OK that was good!

I feel ready to take my next steps today. I've created a bunch of marketing content for the next few weeks, but I need to make decisions about how to put things out there, and when to do what, and having my inner courage with me feels so helpful for this part.

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What changes when you go into the thing already feeling successful about it?

I have been reflecting on our Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call where I was talking about choosing beliefs that would help you with your goals, and still feeling the magic from the Slow the fuck down! BE as powerful, creative + magnetic as you ARE call...

BEING as powerful, creative and magnetic as I AM - I can't help but feel successful about things I haven't even started yet.

That's what's on my mind as I get this new week started. I decided to not go out for coffee, I wanted to stay in and get organized. (And take a walk later today to get embroidery thread - I am working on one project and planning the next one)

Recognizing that WE CAN'T always feel this way of course, but also recognizing that processing the feelings that do come up around "my success is inevitable" is work that supports our dreams.

Doing the Dream Lab as my practice for today, my dream shows up as a rainbow in the sky, but not "rainbow-shaped" it's like a ball of rainbow.

It's a powerful energy force.

I feel it in my heart, and it expands to create an energy field around me, holding me in it's energy, protecting/insulating me from everything outside of this.

I do have a list of things I want to do this week. I feel ready to go do it now.

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What are you up to today? Let us know in the comments!

Tell us what you're working on, struggling with, ask questions, share your goals, etc, in these daily posts. This is a great way to put stuff "out there" where only people who "get it" are going to see it.

On Fridays I post my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. The prompts are here. You can do them with me, or do your own thing.

Get the calendar of upcoming calls here. | Get your next Dream Book lesson here.

I am feeling SO GOOD since the Slow the fuck down! BE as powerful, creative + magnetic as you ARE call.

I went for a blood draw this morning to test my cholesterol and even being in the blood lab didn't spoil my mood. (And I am feeling confident that now that I have dropped the "new pandemic habits" that had raised my cholesterol, these test results will be good or at least show progress)

Now I am in a Starbucks in the mall, not something I would normally choose but the mall isn't open yet so it's not as busy, and it's between the blood lab and home and I wanted to get coffee and breakfast and put on noise canceling headphones and WRITE.

I finished that first month of my new way of doing marketing. I feel SO GOOD about it. It's absolutely NOT how I want to keep doing things, but following my inspiration and doing something different was exactly what I needed. It helped shift my relationship with marketing and I feel so excited now to keep talking about my work.

Today my work is really outer work oriented: I want to make a list of my ideas for what's next: plan some new calls, there are a few new meditations I want to add to our library, etc.

Before I dive into that, I want to meet with my dream.

My dream shows up as a dancing person. There is glitter around them. So much joy.

"Hey girl!" they say "We get to dance and BE IN JOY"

I don't think I shared this here yet, I had a big realization last week.

When I started my business in 2010, or even starting around 2008 when I was taking this work more seriously while not thinking I would ever leave my office job, I was deeply committed to figuring out how to best support my creative genius.

What are the things that help me be as creative as possible and do my best work? What helps create a productive day vs an unproductive day?

Looking back I see I was leaning into some toxic productivity values.

During the pandemic I lost so many of those routines and since then I have been figuring out how I want to be now.

Here's the big realization: all the things I found over the years that help me do my best work ACTUALLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WORK OR PRODUCTIVITY.

THEY ARE THE THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY.

My joy is the thing that brings out my best work. The work part happens naturally when I am happy. The work part is a slog when I am depressed and it's stressful when I'm anxious.

Like walking/biking to a coffee shop and drinking coffee and journaling. This isn't a productivity hack it just makes me happy. And when I am happy my creativity flows.

I knew being happy was a part of it, but I see now that that's ALL of it.

If I can give myself permission to do MORE and MORE things that make me happy, the work will take care of itself. There are so many things I feel inspired to create, and when I am filled up and happy this feels fun and pressure-free. When I am NOT filled up, I feel overwhelmed by my own projects.

In some way I feel like I always knew this and in some way it feels brand new.

And my dream is reminding me: JOY. DANCE WITH IT.

So I will bring that attitude into my list-making and getting organized today.

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Yesterday I did not do a thing I had on my list to do.

It was to write up a "final reminder" email/post about the Slow the fuck down call.

If you remember, I was feeling so good about how I marketed this differently, based on how I was feeling in January and wanting more structure and a less "chaotic all over the place" kind of feeling about how I put myself out there. So I wrote and made art and cut that up into a whole bunch of posts, spread them out over the month, and felt really good about how it all went.... but I never did that last "reminder" post/email.

Yesterday I DID NOT WANT TO.

I had a conversation between the part of me who didn't want to and the part of me who did want to, and the part who DID want to changed her mind super fast and came up with reasons not to do it, lol.

Then I tried to bring in the part of me who is concerned that I am sabotaging my efforts, but even she was like "it doesn't make sense to force yourself to do this if you're not feeling it"

I definitely don't want to push myself to promote my work. It feels gross, and I think people can feel that gross feeling in the post.

I did want to send a wholehearted reminder/invitation, but I wasn't feeling it, so I didn't do it. BUT THIS WAS REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE. I do like to follow through on my tasks.

Then, this morning I woke up SO EXCITED about our call and SO HAPPY about the day. I walked to the coffee shop and wrote this post (and sent it as an email) feeling so happy to invite people to join us.

I am SO GLAD I didn't make myself write something yesterday. Writing this this morning just felt so right. THIS is what I want from my marketing efforts, to feel THIS happy and excited about what I am putting out there.

(Also, I realized it's been 6 months since I started taking some herbal supplements for peri-menopause and while they were definitely helpful right away, I think I'm starting to see some long-term impacts kick in. I just feel better all around so this will impact everything.)

(Also also, I don't think I can discount the impact of how happy I feel about my embroidery project. Having a CREATIVE PASSION PROJECT and how that kind of lights up everything else.)