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Featured Dream of the Week: “I WILL DEFY STEREOTYPES!”

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What’s your dream? Each week, the Declare Your Dream Experimental Motivation Project features one of the declared dreams in the experiment.  The goal is to highlight the dream and put collective positive energy towards the dream manifesting for the Dreamer and motivate the reader of the Dream to focus on their own dreams and begin creating them. This week’s featured dream was the 181st Dream to arrive in the experiment.     DREAM PRAYER Light to focus on why your Dream matters to you. Light to take action towards your Dream. Light to never give up on your Dream. Light for your Dream to manifest. With love and belief in you and your dream, The Declare Your...

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Daily Dose—WHAT DO YOU HAVE?

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What do you have? Create something positive from it! Whatever you have, someone somewhere has less but has created more from it. No matter what you have in your life—positives, negatives, weaknesses, strengths, riches, or poverty—you can create something positive from it. Even if it is just facial muscles to form a smile, vocal cords to say thank you, hands to open a door—you have something from which to create from. Appreciate all that you have to create from! Are you alive? Others aren’t. Do you have the full use of your legs? Others don’t. Do you have your sight? Others don’t. Do you have wifi? Others don’t. Do you have something to eat today?...

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Daily Dose—WHAT ARE YOU DREAMING?

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What are you dreaming? Create it! Are you dreaming of peace? Are you dreaming of change? Are you dreaming of health? Are you dreaming of strength? Are you dreaming of finishing something? Are you dreaming of monetizing?  Are you dreaming of making a movie? Are you dreaming of starting a blog? Are you dreaming of getting an education? Are you dreaming of helping others? Are you dreaming of getting a new job? Are you dreaming of a vacation? Are you dreaming of writing a book? Are you dreaming of telling your story? Are you dreaming of getting out? Are you dreaming of finding your purpose? Are you dreaming of making a difference? Whatever you are dreaming to do, whatever...

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Featured Dream of the Week: “ONE SMALL ACT OF KINDNESS CAN CHANGE SOMEONE’S LIFE”

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What’s your dream? Each week, the Declare Your Dream Experimental Motivation Project features one of the declared dreams in the experiment.  The goal is to highlight the dream and put collective positive energy towards the dream manifesting for the Dreamer and motivate the reader of the Dream to focus on their own dreams and begin creating them. This week’s featured dream was the 176th Dream to arrive in the experiment.     DREAM PRAYER Light to focus on why your Dream matters to you. Light to take action towards your Dream. Light to never give up on your Dream. Light for your Dream to manifest. With love and belief in you and your dream, The Declare Your...

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DAILY DOSE—REVIEW & REVISE

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DAILY DOSE—REVIEW & REVISE

 TAKE AN HONEST LOOK (and get real!)   Creating from what you have includes the accumulated results of your daily, monthly, yearly actions, habits, thoughts and beliefs.  Be honest with yourself and take a long hard look at the past year. What worked? What didn’t? Where did you succeed? Where did you fail? What got done? What didn’t? Are you healthier as the year closes than when it began? Are you more financially secure? Less? Did you create what you set out to create? Did you simply talk about it or did you take action? Review what went down, what was thought, what was believed, what was achieved, over the last 12 months and revise your goals, your intentions,...

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What are you going to create?!

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  CREATE SOMETHING   MOTIVATE SOMEONE   CHANGE THE WORLD   FROM WHAT YOU HAVE  

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Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!

I love me the first day of a new year!  I couldn’t sleep last night I was so excited about launching into 2017.  I have not decided on any specific goal or daily task or activity or personal improvement plan yet.  Oh, but you know I will have one!  I’m mulling over my options right now.  Should I go vegan for 365 days?  Vegetarian is probably more realistic.  Pescetarian would be even better.  I could still eat shrimp!  Should I be booze free?  God knows I need to lower my A1c.  Maybe I should cut out dairy, sugar, Facebook?  Definitely.  Apparently, all three are basically heroin.   Chant a magical mantra in the mirror?  I just have to write the perfect...

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Daily Dose—BEGIN!

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    What is in you? Bring it forth! Everyone has something inside them they’re dreaming to create—a song, a dance, a cake, an idea, a company, a school, a book, a building, a dream, a film, a story, a savings, a family, an education, an adventure, a home.  What creation is inside of you?  And what would happen if you simply started working on it?  Quietly, consistently, gently giving it attention, energy and action?  It doesn’t have to be some big drama or proclamation.  It can simply be an internal shift, a clear decision, a meaningful step in the direction of your dream. Write the first sentence. Make the appointment. Buy the ingredients. Turn on the music....

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My Documentary is Premiering at a Film Festival!

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Once you have gotten up off the floor after falling off your chair in shock that I seem to be saying my documentary film—yes, the one I’ve been talking (crying, blogging, bitching, raving) about working on for the last nine years—High School 9-1-1 is not only finished but actually premiering at a film festival…JOIN ME!!!! I am thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering the film at the 25th annual Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 21st.  It’s truly a beautiful festival spreading inspiration and showing films that do more than entertain. So, please join me as I begin to share the film, and spread it’s vitally important and inspirational...

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A Battered Dream

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A Battered Dream

My head has been in dreams since yesterday afternoon when I went to the post office and there was a lone dream in the box.  Lined, frayed and battered, it looked like it had made a long, hard journey.  Which, considering its softness, I suspect involved going through the wash! It’s appearance, more than the actual scrawled dream on the front, deeply impacted me.  It’s our dreams, those precious, secret wishes, longings, hopes, aspirations, that take the brunt of our abuse from insecurity, loss, rejection, fear, disappointment, doubt, hurt.  You name it, they take it.  How battered are our dreams?! Last night, I posted the featured dream of the week…not...

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