Make your creative dreams real A plan for procrastinators, perfectionists, busy people, and people who would really rather sleep all day
Book - 2004
Whether your dream is to write a book or plant a garden, open a bed and breakfast or get a degree, help children with cancer or star in a musical, SARK guides you step-by-step on a journey toward making your dream real.
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- Published
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New York :
Simon & Schuster
c2004.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "A Fireside book."
- Physical Description
- 278 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780743269247
9780743229210
- 1.. Fantastic First Month: Finding and Naming Your Dream(s)
- What's your dream?
- How living your dreams benefits you and others
- Who dreams?
- Why dream?
- Remembering dreams
- Your dream legacy
- Naming your dream
- Stages of dream development
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 2.. Succulent Second Month: The Land of No
- Fear and negativity
- Procrastination and perfectionism
- Resistance and inertia
- Inside critics
- "Inside" children
- Grudge Island
- Jealousy and competition
- From the Land of No
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 3.. Treasured Third Month: The World of Yes
- Love
- Willingness
- Self-acceptance (radical variety)
- Energy
- Inner allies, teachers, and mentors
- Building your dream life
- The courage to let loose the wonders inside you
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 4.. Feisty Fourth Month: Making Creative Dreams Real with MicroMovements
- What are micromovements?
- Examples of micromovements
- Stories of success and stumbling
- Practice and process with micromovements
- Micromovement wheel
- Micromovement buddies
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 5.. Fabulous Fifth Month: Creative Dreams Support Systems
- How can your friends and family support your creative dreams?
- Requests from and invitations to people you don't know
- Creative dream teams
- Providing support for yourself
- Who or what inspires you?
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 6.. Sublime Sixth Month: Committing to Your Dream and Keeping It Moving
- Have you made a commitment to your creative dreams?
- Time and creative dreams
- Keeping dreams moving
- A review
- New perspectives and possible changes
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 7.. Superb Seventh Month: Inspiring Stories and Examples of Creative Dreams and Dreamers
- My creative dreams and what I've learned
- Clark (artist)
- Elissa (copy editor)
- John (teacher)
- Alex (writer)
- Val (expressive arts therapist)
- Sabrina (artist and author)
- Vanessa (student)
- Kindred spirits for creative dreams
- Creative dream questions
- Your page
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 8.. Ecstatic Eighth Month: Living Your Creative Dreams
- Fear and loss
- Doing more things badly
- Rebelling and nonconforming
- Guilt
- Failure
- Frustration
- Impatience
- Don't work harder
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 9.. Nourishing Ninth Month: Nourishing You and Your Creative Dreams
- What feels nourishing?
- Nourishment experiences and examples
- Ordinary days as dream nourishment
- How's your creative dream?
- What if you're stuck with your creative dream(s)?
- Style and pace of dreams
- What do you and your creative dreams need?
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 10.. Terrific Tenth Month: What You and Your Dreams Need Now
- Where does your creative dream need to go or grow?
- Stages of dream development
- How do dreams get to where they need to go?
- Assessing and reassessing your creative dream
- Examples of creative dreams growing
- Quitting and postponing dreams
- Dreams that lead the way
- Examples of creative dreams that grew
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- 11.. Energizing Eleventh Month: Managing and Growing Your Creative Dreams
- Managing your dream
- My dream growth
- Teams
- Marketing
- Scary or alone parts of "success"
- Your creative dream growing larger than you
- You can explore growth in the following ways
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- Dream Stoppers
- Dream Starters
- Questions and Answers
- 12.. Tender Twelfth Month: Living Elegantly and Successfully with Your Creative Dreams
- Elegant, successful you!
- How open are you to change?
- Sharing dreams with others
- Creative dreams in service
- Welcoming new creative dreams
- Celebrating and acknowledging
- Share your success with the world
- Week 1. A Game or Something to Try
- Week 2. A Gift for You
- Week 3. A Positive Challenge (I Dare You)
- Week 4. Radiant Resources
- Acknowledgments
- Resources