Catch Your Dreams
Today in class we did a "Catch Your Dreams" exercise that I found rather interesting. At first glance it was difficult to fathom having more than a handful of dreams at any one point in your life. It was easy to remember what my childhood dreams were, but to think of more than ten current dreams was a task. Once I started thinking I had little difficulty filling up the post-it notes, but after "clustering" the notes I could not decide if each note represented an individual "dream" or moreso was a picture of how my "dream" life would be. Ideally, success in all, or even several, of the noted dreams would mean that my adult life has fulfilled my expectations.
I think these dreams will make an interesting addition to the second part of the Individual Learning Plan, but I think it will be difficult to make a connection between the very career-oriented first half, to a more personal expression of success in the second.
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Posted on: November 9, 2006 02:30 PM
I like what you brought up about having more of an ideal life than just a collection of dreams. I can relate to that since some of my dreams would require me having a substantial amount of free time and the financial security to devote to each of those projects.
I wonder if the exercise would work better if it were done backwards. Someone takes their ideal life and works backwards to determine the actions needed to get there. In a way, it is retroactively dreaming to discover what one really wants out of life.
Posted by: Michael Benning
Posted on: November 9, 2006 02:33 PM
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I like what you brought up about having more of an ideal life than just a collection of dreams. I can relate to that since some of my dreams would require me having a substantial amount of free time and the financial security to devote to each of those projects.
I wonder if the exercise would work better if it were done backwards. Someone takes their ideal life and works backwards to determine the actions needed to get there. In a way, it is retroactively dreaming to discover what one really wants out of life.
Posted by: Andrew Adrian-Karlin
Posted on: November 10, 2006 03:14 PM
I am also going to find it hard integrating my personal dreams into my learning plan. Normally my personal goals and ambitions are separate from my educatonal and career goals. I partition off my life because I find it easiest and bridging this gap is going to be troublesome for me.
Posted by: Chris Lambert
Posted on: November 10, 2006 09:50 PM
I missed this class, but I think most dreams really are part of a dream life. We dream of having a certain car, a house, traveling to all these places, having this job, this many kids, meeting this kind of person. In our heads, all of us see a world filled with what it is we desire. We take strides and try to make as many of those imaginary things as we can into reality.
While some of our dreams may be completely independent from each other, I think a majority of what we want comes from that one underlying dream-life.
Do you agree? Or think that was the case with you?