Why are you not chasing your wildest dream?

Sometimes it feels ridiculous, living in fairy land, day dreaming to think about your wildest dream coming true. So we push it down.

So far down, we aren’t sure what it even is.

So even when someone has success, gets results, they still say ‘never if my wildest dreams…” They still reference that they wouldn’t even dare to think of being exactly where they are.

So why?

Are we so scared of failure, of the let down, of the chance it might not happen that we opt for ‘ok’ rather than the chance to be more than ok?

Our comfort zone is not always the best place for us. Comfort keeps us safe, but it also holds us in place. It doesn’t challenge our assumptions, beliefs, thinking. It doesn’t let us grow. So if disruption comes into our lives Comfort is not our friend.

Comfort can not help us through the rocky times. Stepping out in Stretch, the space next door to Comfort, helps us to know we will work it out. We can find our way. We have everything we need. We spend our energy on the things that matter. We do the work that’s helps us navigate the disruption.

So Wild Dreams suddenly feel more achievable.

We think ‘well why the heck Not?’. I can do anything. I will work it out. I will learn. Your narrative starts to change. In Stretch you know this about play, possibility, trying, failing, and everything that goes with it.

The rewards are living how you want to live. And being who you want to be.

It sounds a bit far fetched?

But that’s why when people lose their jobs they use that disruption to fuel them to reevaluate, and channel that energy to achieving more than they’d ever imagined.

So what if you haven’t lost your job?

You generate that same energy. You do the work around your day job. You disrupt yourself.

How to disrupt yourself to chase your Wildest Dream

5 Questions to ask yourself

1. What is your Wildest Idea? Write it down. (What are you doing? Why are you doing it? How are you doing? )

2. Why cant this happen?

3. Why shouldn’t this happen?

4. What is the one thing you can do right now to step forward into that Wildness?

5. What would it feel like to be saying ‘Never in my wildest dreams…’ this time next year?

You have to start playing with the Wildness. Plenty of people jump into Stretch. They start the work on themselves. The Wildness becomes their Comfort.

So why aren’t you chasing your wildest dream?

As Elizabeth Gilbert says in Big Magic ‘if you don’t grab your idea when it comes to you, it will happily dance away and find someone who does want it’.

I’d love to know about your Wild Idea.

eleanor

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