A Dream Project is a thing you want to do for no reason other than you want to do it, you can’t stop thinking about it, and you must do it.
The must comes from within.
There are stakes. It feels like there will be consequences, like you’ll take a personal hit, maybe feel a little less like you, if you don’t do this thing. Dream Projects bubble up from inside. The motivation is personal.
Dream projects don’t necessarily make sense. Most people don’t think about their Dream Project and say, oh yeah, that’s a logical thing for me to do. You catch a Dream Project like you catch a cold. You’re not always sure where it came from, but you’ve certainly got one.
A Dream Project is a thing you want to do for no reason other than you want to do it.
No one will force you to do your Dream Project. Dream Projects usually begin and end with you. You are the keeper of the idea and whether or not you try to make it real is up to you.
Dream Projects are self-honoring. They never ask you to abandon yourself. They require you as you. Not who you might be one day or who you wish you were now or who you might pretend to be.
Dream Projects don’t come with a downloadable set of instructions for how to do them. They require us to trust that we can figure it out, that we’ll find what we need.
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Here are some Dream Projects Brainstorm Roadies are working on, as well as ones people on our waitlist say they have:
Finishing my memoir.
Drinking coffee from beans I’ve roasted.
Restoring an old home.
Writing a novel.
Opening a restaurant, Spinning yarn, Creating a genealogy, Starting a business
Closing a business
Building a dollhouse
Exhibiting photographs
Swimming across the English Channel
Starting a Christmas tree farm
Competing in a horse show
Performing in a community theater production
Starting a community composting initiative
Creating a donut pop up
Beginning a daily writing practice
Planting a tea garden
Learning the names of every plant in the state park
Creating a video game to help people process grief
Growing Spartina Alterniflora (marsh grass) for future living shoreline projects
Starting a newsletter about consumer packaged goods
Interviewing my grandmother and capturing her story before it’s too late
Creating a website of family stories.
Finally launching my podcast about underrecognized people throughout history
Writing letters to my son because I keep meaning to and he’s already five
Publishing my first nonfiction book
Writing a horror screenplay
Quilting
Starting support groups for dads
Hosting kindness workshops all over the world
There’s a feeling.
It’s different for each of us.
What’s the same is the pull. The pull to get something that’s inside of you out into the world.
You know if it you have it. It’s that idea you can’t get out of your mind. That vision you can’t let go of. That tiny bit of curiosity, that inkling that you care, but you aren’t sure why…it’s a feeling.
A must that comes from within.
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