I have too many dreams...a register

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December 17, 2013 at 10:27 am #46920

Tom Southern
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Lani, you’ve achieved so much already by getting clean. Be proud of yourself. Your achievement is outstanding. If you can do that, you can do anything. It’s true. Start writing.

Don’t wait till your course finishes. If you haven’t yet started writing then start now. Just write. Whatever comes into your head. Write what your heart leads you to write. It doesn’t have to be pulitzer prize stuff. Just start. Then another of your dreams will become true. You’ll be a writer. And, if you don’t already, start reading Jeff Goins’ blog: http://GoinsWriter.com . Jeff writes a lot about just writing and you’ll be a writer. It’s great.

Cheers!

December 18, 2013 at 12:50 pm #46960

Mark Sandusky
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Hi Lani!

I have the same problem. I’m interested in anything and everything which often leads to doing nothing because you simply can’t decide.

For that reason I created this google spreadsheet in order to align my creative desires with my monetary/life-skill realities. It lays out a number of categories, which you rank from 1-10 and then it orders which “dream” you should focus on first. I call it a a “Decision Making Matrix” Please feel free to use it and improve upon it!

http://marksandusky.com/decision-making-matrix/

Let me know if you have any questions or make improvements!

Also, here is a quick blurb about how I go about killing my dreams 1 by 1.

http://marksandusky.com/decision-making-matrix/

I hope you enjoy and congrats on your new found sobriety!

Mark

December 25, 2013 at 10:21 pm #47569

Anna
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Just pick one thing and give it a go! If you don’t want to continue with it, you are not locked in forever 🙂 Once you’ve started one thing, there is also no reason you cannot do several things at the same time 🙂

January 25, 2014 at 9:10 pm #49732

Howard Williams
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Lanny, I love Anna’s response. There is no right answer. Pick a direction, any direction and start on the path. You ll Quickly learn whether it nurtures you or not. If you don’t like the path, change it, The world expects you by that I mean your family and friends to be consistent, always the same. Consider instead that your future and your life are your creation. As you learn more about yourself, upgrade yourself you become more congruent with who you are. What keeps you from exploring any of these wonderful ideas? Is it fear that prevents you from moving in some direction? Make a choice. To not not choose, is to choose nothing and surrender. Again, there is no one right path. There are many paths. Take the ones that seem most in alignment with you. You follow your dreams and the other things will come to you as you move along the path.

With encouragement Howard

February 14, 2014 at 5:20 am #50991

Devi Clark
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Hi Lani,

Have you heard of renaissance souls or scanners? They are people, like us, who like to do more than one thing and get bored if they just do one. But the risk is you end up doing too many things in a shallow way. Try googling renaissance souls or scanners and you will find some good supportive resources including a facebook group owned by Barbara Sher (who coined the term scanner in one of her books) and various books and coaching sites dedicated to this group.

Hope that helps!
Devi
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