I planned this post for yesterday, which it is – if you read this tomorrow.

Dreaming your Plans

Are you allowing yourself a dream?  I don’t mean the ‘I ate a cookie and it turned into a pink tutu in my stomach and flew out my butt and became a butterfly and talked to me about the African Lowland Gorilla needing cookies more than I do’ dream.  I don’t mean that kind.  

I mean the real life dreams.  Do you allow yourself those dreams? Or do you think you don’t deserve one?  Maybe you had your dream shot down and don’t want to dream again?  Maybe you have been told so many times dreaming is for losers, just go and do your work and shut up about stupid dreams.  Or maybe you fill your mind with other people’s dreams instead of your own. Remember, without a dream, very likely you won’t ever have a plan for anything.  It all starts with a dream, so allow it.

Planning your Dreams

Are you planning your dreams? I don’t mean the ‘I dreamt I had a sock around my wrist and there was a baby alligator coming out of it with a bobblehead doll of my 3rd grade teacher in it’s teeth who was singing an oratorio in a Donald Duck voice while wearing a mankini’. I don’t mean that kind.

I mean the real life dreams.  Are you planning those?  

• Do you dream of downsizing and having less ‘stuff’?  Are you planning on how you will actually get rid of that stuff?
• Do you dream of being a size 8 again?  Are you planning on how to make that dream happen?  
• Do you dream of making new friends who are more like you than the stuffy people you know at work or church or the country club?  Have you joined that nudist rock climbing group yet? Have you auditioned for the community theatre yet?  Have you taken that bow hunting class yet?
• Do you dream of contributing to your home town somehow?  Have you looked into that school mentoring program you heard about last year?  Have you called the hospice society who helped out your uncle in his last days?  

What are your dreams for becoming who you want to be? What is your plan to make that happen? Do you think you will become it without a plan, without a dream?  You won’t you know.

If you can dream it, you can plan it. If you can plan it, you can make it happen.

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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman

Quote by Gloria Steinem

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