self-empowerment

“Every seed has a gestation or incubation period. Ideas are spiritual seeds and will move into form or physical results. Your goals will manifest then the time is right. Know they will” – The Law of Rhythm, from the 14 Universal Laws of Nature

In part one of this four part series, we explored the energy of winter and how it relates to completing a goal.

Winter is chance to go within, to clarify a goal that feels good because it feels like you. You can revisit that post HERE if you want to go back to the beginning. 

Spring – we emerge from the dark into the light. 

Step two in the dream activation process. 

Action with clarity and fresh energy.

This step looks like momentum, creating small challenges for yourself, small actions to evolve the idea.

It is the point at which the idea starts to become a reality. We move towards it, rather than absorbing ourselves in the research and the planning phase. 

How many times have you heard yourself say “I just need to find out a few more details about that course” or “I’ve got so many ideas I don’t know which way to go” or “I’ll wait till next year…”

Waiting, research and planning are comfortable. 

We can do it from the comfort of the couch. That safe space to dream. But we too often get stuck in this phase.

As Elizabeth Gilbert wrote in her book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear –

“So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” 

What truly keeps the dream alive, is the ability to know when it’s time to move onto the next phase and carry the momentum through.

Some would call this being in flow. And this is the beauty using the energy of cycles and seasons to follow through with our goals. 

Here’s a few key ways we build momentum and take action in this phase:

+ Connect – who do I need additional support from? where can I get that support? who do I know that could help me with this goal? Outreach, set up meetings, enrol in that course and if you’re game enough get an accountability buddy. We are looking for feedback here on our idea or project, perhaps even someone to collaborate with. 

+ Plan – you know what the goal is, how you want the process to feel and what you want to achieve now you feel ready to put it into a plan. In this step, we’ll get really clear on what time you need in your schedule and how to make that time. We work out all the small steps. We put them in the calendar. 

+ Seek resources – what do I know about this goal, challenge or project? and like-wise what don’t I know? You might find some overlap with this step and the connection piece. Once you’re clear, reach out to those who could know the answer. 

The trick here for us is to not get too stuck on the “behind the scenes” of the goal and planning, which is why we included the connection piece. 

I can’t wait to share with you the next phase of the process – express, a phase that has the energy of my favourite season – Summer.   

As you can see, The Dream Activator truly is THE best launch pad for your goals in 2019.

This four-part, self-guided course will have you start taking action on your dream in just 28 days. To find out more click the button below. 

This is your opportunity to make things you love, do things you love, with ease. 

What does goal setting have to do with seasons, and winter for that matter?

First, I want you to cast your mind’s eye back to winter. 

Depending on your hemisphere – right now, this feeling may be very familiar, or it may feel distant. 

The frozen air, dark over light, coolness, the warm feeling of climbing into bed at night for rest, the feeling of turning inwards. It’s slow, perhaps even still and often a reflective time.

You may not realise it, but the process of taking an idea, something that might be a seed and bringing it into reality, is the exact process that we have in seasons, with the moon and as women with our menstrual cycle.

As you scroll, you might be thinking “but I’m not very familiar with the moon cycles, seasonal living, and even this idea of tracking my monthly cycle” and that’s completely okay!

For this process, we don’t need to be doing any of those things in detail – however, if your curious to know more I will provide some additional resources within the program.  

This process has been designed to innovate goal setting for women (and men). 

And introduce you to some concepts that will help you to bring more flow, more ease to your ambitions. 

It’s about learning how to take action, make goals happen in line with our natural energy cycles. This process might be the permission you need to be “off” occasionally instead of “on”.  To move, work and create with the  “flow”.

When you are using The Dream Activator tool, step one is akin to the energy of winter and we’ll refer to it as Ignite or the period of the inner creative. 

So how does this season fit into the process of dream activation or setting a goal? Aren’t goals about deciding then lot’s of doing?

Yes that assumption is somewhat correct – because that’s the way you’ve always known how to set goals. The ready.set.go approach. And for some of us, this works most of the time. 

I say most of the time, because typically what happens is a few weeks or months after we begin, our energy fluctuates, our emotions get the better of us or life happens and we lose consistency. 

What makes this process radically different?

When your goals are chosen from a place that is more deeply connected with you, when things get hard, we have a chance to pause and reconnect with why it’s important to us. 

This is why phase one, is all about you.   

By capturing the energy of Winter, a time when we naturally slow down – we can become more intimate with our dreams. 

We decide what it is we want to create and we declare it.  

Step one is…

A blank page, new beginnings, unlimited possibility, planting seeds, intention, brainstorm  

In this step, we allow ourselves the space to explore ideas without limitation. 

BUT if do we feel any sense of limitation, I promise to give you tools to learn why. Even in myself, I’ve noticed my emotion can be all over the place when I allow myself space to freely dream. One minute excited, heart racing next minute doubt. 

It is important that we create a safe environment to allow this to unfold. 

From here we learn to create goals that feel more connected to who we truly are, before we race out and start striving towards them. This is a period of nurturing the goal, of getting clear on all the possibilities, how it could look and feel.  

At the end of Step One, you’ll have an opportunity to declare your goal by sharing it in our Facebook group for fellow dream activators. This is a vital part of turning your dream into a reality. 

And that is what you’ll expect in step one. 

The beauty of the Dream Activator process is that when we finish we get to repeat the cycle. Likewise, if we go off track or abandon the goal, we can come back to step one, reset our intention and start again. 

Maybe the way you have set goals has worked until now, but doesn’t feel entirely like you anymore. If you’re ready to do things differently, then you might like to try something new. 

As you can see, The Dream Activator truly is THE best launch pad for your goals in 2019.

This four-part, self-guided course will have you start taking action on your dream in just 28 days. To find out more click the button below. 

This is your opportunity to make things you love, do things you love, with ease.