On Fridays I do 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. I do my reports on the printable journaling sheet.

I just don't want to do this today.

Most Thursdays, I go out for coffee with the Dream Status Report journaling sheet. So it's like - that routine is a container. I bike or walk, get my coffee, sit down, and fill in the sheet. This is Thursday. (I love routine!)

This Thursday I wanted to stay home. I did a bunch of journaling, felt really good about it, and then just felt NO about the Dream Status Report.

Instead of doing it anyway, I am going to explore that NO.

Hey NO, what's up?

What do you mean what's up? NO is up. NO is all.

Well, yeah I hear you and I am not going to push you. I just want to understand why the no. This is something I have done every week for so many years, because it helps me.

We don't have to do every single that helps, every day. 

That's true! And again, I am accepting your no and not pushing. I just want to understand why.

First, there is a flurry of frustration and just "I DON'T WANT TO DAMMIT"

But no actual reason WHY. This is interesting.

I keep sitting with it and it feel like underneath that... this just doesn't feel like the right thing.

Two questions come up in response to that: Why isn't it the right thing, like what is wrong with it? and What IS the right thing?

I don't want to feel "nailed down", like I don't want my dream to be describable, I don't want to look at the path as any kind of solid thing. I want to be in the mystery.

Oh that's interesting.

This weekly practice helps SO MUCH for "staying on track" and "showing up consistently over time" and right now I just want to be in the void of transformation.

OK I think that makes sense, given where I am.

What IS the right thing then, instead of abandoning the practice that has helped me keep showing up, how do I shift it to fit me where I am today?

The practice is about reflecting, learning, processing and using all of that to light the path ahead.

I don't want to just be in resistance, and validate my resistance by saying "I am in the mystery, I am in the void of transformation", you know?

SO, as a compromise, I could just answer the last question from the journaling sheet: My focus for the next week.

Oh! THIS CHANGES THE ENERGY OF THIS WHOLE EXCHANGE. Because I'm not trying to push this part of me who says NO, but then that means IT is pushing ME. This is a way to compromise. This feels good.

My focus for next week: BE in mystery. I just feel like I'm in a transformative time, I don't know what this means, but I want to make space for it. Journaling and meditation for just... being in the mystery and being open to my dreams and my self becoming what they want to become next.

🦄⚡️Creative Dream Incubator Weekly Coaching Call is today!!

Hope to see you there - or catch the replay over the weekend! Call details + replays are here. And after the call I'll start a thread in the forum to share your plans for the week and as a space for accountability and support.

If you can't be there live but have a question or there's something you are struggling with, send me an email this morning and I'll discuss it on the call and offer you some suggestions for things to do.

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