Life is about dreams. As human beings we have the unique capacity to look into the future, envision something, and then act on the present to bring our vision to reality.
- Our dreams are the visions that shape our lives.
It is easy to get so caught up in surviving that we stop dreaming.
- When we stop dreaming, we slowly begin to disengage from our work, from our relationships, and from life itself.
An organization changes when the habits of the people who make up that organization change.
- Get your people in the habit of pursuing and achieving dreams in their personal lives and they will be much more effective at chasing down the goals and dreams you place before them in the workplace.
- Achieving dreams is a habit.
People are enormously grateful to the people who help them live their dreams, and that gratitude between team members makes them willing to go the extra mile for one another.
- The key to successful team-building is creating a unity while celebrating the individuality of each member
- common purpose colliding with unique contributions.
- Spend time going from person to person, each team member sharing one dream each time around.
- Feedback, insight, and encouragement from the other team members begin an organic process of creating a strategy to achieve those dreams.
- During this process, also try to identify a time frame for each dream
- within the next twelve months, one to five years, or five years or more.
- Each team member also reports on his or her progress over the past twelve months.
- All share their triumphs and trials, the dreams they achieved and those they failed to achieve.
- As other team members share their dreams, you may often see the new staff reaching for their pens, making notes, and adding to their Dream Lists.
The passion of dreams is contagious. This is the passion that teams need to be injected with.
- Get them passionate about their personal dreams and that passion will overflow into your organizational dreams.
What happens casually and informally in the weeks and months that follow is them talking to each other about their dreams, asking each other what progress they are making with a particular dream, and encouraging each other to keep at it.
- In small ways and large, they begin to help each other to live their dreams, and this spirit of cooperation naturally overflows into their work together as a team.
Re-source: Reenvision
Create a simple journal (Dream Book)
- Fill the pages of dreams – places you want to visit, personal and professional goals you want to accomplish, qualities you want to develop in your character, quotes that inspire you, the occasional fortune-cookie message, pictures torn from magazines of things you would like to own someday, hopes and dreams for the various organizations you am involved with, adventures you would like to take, the legacy you would like to create, and much more.
- Passing through the pages, one dream at a time, imagine how you will feed when you have achieved a particular dream, and you will constantly be amazed at how this simple process begins the manifestation of your dreams.
- Get yourself a Dream Book. Start writing down your dreams. Dream without limits. Date your dreams as you add them to your Dream Book. Date them again when you achieve them.
In time, you will look back on dreams you thought were impossible when you wrote them down and be amazed at the ease with which they were finally accomplished
- And you will marvel at how much you have advanced in the journey.
Some time today, drag yourself away from all that occupies your daily attention and write down your dreams.
- Make a list of one hundred dreams.
- Dream and write from that stream of consciousness, as if anything were possible.
- Cross section your dreams
- Physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, psychological, material, professional, financial, creative, adventure, legacy, character
- Try to do it in one sitting. Nothing is too wild and wonderful. There are no limitations. Don’t concern yourself with what you think is possible and what you think is not. Just write…
After one week, go through the list and apply one of the following to each of your dreams: short-term (within twelve months), mid-term (one to five years), or long-term (five years or more).
craving and resource from “The Dream Manager” by Matthew Kelly