TCFBO #056: Dare to Dream!

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As we’ve discussed previously, if you want to purposefully create something in your future, you must first experience it fully in your imagination.

So why is it that we find lots of things to distract us from simply spending time imagining the things we’d love to create?

Why do we stop ourselves from daring to dream?

Well, imagine for a moment that every day since you were a teenager you’ve gone to the gym.

And every day you’ve been doing weight training.

But the vast majority of the time you’ve only exercised your right arm.

Maybe occasionally you’ve lifted a weight with your left arm, but it’s like 5% left arm training, 95% right arm training.

After all those years your right arm is bulging with muscles.

It’s a championship weight lifting arm.

Your left arm, well that needs some work.

So, every time you go to lift something, it feels easier and more natural to pick it up with your right arm.

And every time you go to pick something up with your left arm, your right arm is shouting out:

“Use me! Use me! I’m better at this stuff!”.

That’s because you’ve habitually trained your right arm, building it up over time, and paid hardly any attention to the left arm.

Unfortunately, that’s what most of us have been doing with our ego and our heart.

We’ve given our ego the attention for so long that we’re simply not used to giving attention to our heart, our true nature.

We habitually listen to our ego and ignore our heart.

Plus, every time we start imagining things we’d love to create, it brings up a certain amount of tension because of the gap between where we are today and where we’d love to be.

And the further away we perceive the thing we’d love to create from where we are today, the greater the tension.

Because our ego keeps reminding us how we don’t yet have what we’ve dared to imagine.

And when you start to feel that tension, it’s far easier to resolve it by getting busy doing something else that distracts us than it is to just sit with that tension.

(You can read more about sitting with the tension here).

You see, our ego loves to keep us safe.

It’ll merrily chatter away saying things like:

“Well, you’re alive now, and everything we’ve done up to now has kept you alive.

And what you’re thinking about now, well, we haven’t done that yet.

So, I don’t know about that.

That’s unknown and that means there’s a risk you could die.

And I’m not allowed to let you die because that means I die too.

So, we need to keep doing what we’ve done already, because, although you’re not particularly happy, I don’t really care.

You’re alive.

So, we’ll just keep doing the same thing we’ve always done”.

To our ego there is a big benefit in continuing to do what we’ve always done, even if it is to the detriment of our dreams.

So, this week start paying more attention to your heart, to your intuition.

Use your imagination to bring your dreams to life whenever you can, wherever you are.

Imagine your dream projects completed, your dream business up and running and your dream life as if it were your everyday existence.

It’s time for your heart, not your ego, to create your future.

Dare to dream!

Let us know how you get on and we’ll see you next week.

Paul & Philly

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