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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. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

I know doing the same prompts every week can be annoying sometimes but this is magically clarifying. The repetition helps you go deeper into the process and makes it easier to LEARN from your process as you go, and the apply those learnings right away.

This weekly practices helps me learn so much more, even when I'm just stumbling around trying to find my next steps.

Here are the prompts:

PART ONE: (sometimes these can stay the same for months at time, sometimes they change often)

My dream is:  

I want it because: 

When I have it I will feel:

PART TWO:

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

PART THREE:

My goal/wish/intention for this New Moon is:

Last week’s focus was:

What happened in the last week?

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

What do I need now?

What does my dream need now?

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE: 

My dream is: I had a big realization about this this week. I have been way too vague and all over the place thinking about everything I want. It's time to focus in one one specific thing. I want to write more about this next week.

I want it because: I feel ready.

When I have it I will feel: Optimistic and free.

My new moon intention: Self Care and Structure. Making space for progress on projects.

PART TWO: 

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

OMG it's like the clouds parting and then arms, made of clouds, reaching down and lifting me up and putting me in my dream. I love it.

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: ENJOY being in the process.

What happened in the last week? 

I worked more on organization, structure and routine. Every week I take steps with this. This week it really hit me how I don't want to/can't "go back" to when I was at my best in this part of my life. Too much has changed. I need to explore: what is possible here?

I made some big progress re-organizing my project management app (Notion) which, over time, I had started using more as a to-do list. I got bigger projects organized in there better and am using it to help me get into good routines.

It's so important that we SHOW UP for creative work and for our dreams. And some days it feels so hard to do that. Dreaming is so vulnerable, it takes so much energy, of course it's hard sometimes. So I was focusing on supporting myself to just keep showing up. Because most of the time if I connect with my dream in some way, do some journaling, and get set up - the magic happens! I get into the flow.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

I am learning that a lot of the things I HAD learned about what helps me be creative and brave may not apply to my self, and my life, today. This feels really significant and expansive. I can find NEW ways that work for who I am now instead of trying so hard to "get back" to how I used to be.

What do I need now?

As always - more time for meditation + journaling.

Last week I realized that one part of my resistance to this is I've been working with dreams that are too vague. They needed to be vague at first but it's definitely time to narrow in and focus more specifically on something. This makes it easier to know where to start, because there are less parts. I meant to write more  about this this week and didn't, but that's still on my list.

What does my dream need now?

I feel resentful about this question today. Like I am full up taking care of myself! Even though I know that dreaming is a function of healing, so this is to my benefit.

And I feel like I am doing so much for my dream so this week I'll just focus on what I need.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Focus, more space for meditation + journaling.

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