If the next 1,00 days looked exactly like yesterday, would you be moving closer or further away from your dreams?
I like this question.
It’s deep.
It’s juicy.
It’s chewy.
I’m putting it to myself every morning because it holds me accountable. It asks me to watch what I’m doing. It asks me to make conscious choices. It asks me to spend my time more mindfully.
With my dreams in mind.
It’s an especially good MP prompt if you have trouble getting started with your pages in the morning, like I do. It lets you warm up by permitting you to list out all the boring things you did the day before:
Walked the dogs, did my Canva ad, prepped my class, took a bath, taught my class, came home, ate, watched a half-hour of Adolescence on Netflix, got triggered, turned it off, went to bed.
Did any of that bring me any closer to my dreams?
To answer that, you’d have to know my dreams, wouldn’t you?
What’s Your Dream?
That’s the problem with this question. It presumes you know your dreams already. But dreams are hard to pin down. Dreams are changeable, and complicated, and sometimes overlap. So it’s hard to come up with a brief, concise statement of them.
But I think you need to try anyway. At least point yourself in a direction. You can’t get anywhere if you don’t know where you’re headed.
If it’s still too daunting, you can make it easier by saying, “Today my dream is..”
Or, “At this stage of my life my dream is…”
Or, “Even if it’s impractical, my dream is…”
Then, once you have a stateable dream, you can assess whether the stuff you did yesterday is actually moving you closer or further from it.
My dream is to live in a beautiful place filled with lively, creative people who inspire me and whom I long to inspire.
So, did the stuff I did yesterday bring me closer or further away from that?
Walked the dogs, did my Canva ad, prepped my class, took a bath, taught my class, came home, ate, watched a half-hour of Adolescence on Netflix, got triggered, turned it off, went to bed.
I’m calling it a neutral day. It didn’t bring me any closer, but it didn’t regress me, either.
The yoga class was the highlight of my day and kept me aligned with my dream. It was the best thing I did toward my dream because teaching yoga not only inspires me but also has the potential to inspire others.
Now, when I wake up, my first thought is: what can I do today to bring me closer to my dreams.
Do you like this question? You have any other juicy ones for me to try?
Is there one thing you could do each day to bring you closer to your dreams? Two things? Can you work towards having almost everything you do every single day bring you closer to your dreams?
This is the dream, right?
Inspiration Location 