When we don’t build our field of dreams, it’s often because we don’t want to invest time and energy in naming and detailing our most cherished goals unless we can be sure they’ll happen.  Yet it’s odd that we’re willing to waste so much time walking around and surveying the wrong fields and putting our energy into less rewarding projects.    

It’s as if our goal is to create the perfect field itself. We keep planting fresh sod and raccoons come and turn it over looking for grubs, and the sod doesn’t take root.  But at this point most of you give up.  In fact, and I speak from my own grass-growing and goal setting experiences, you will win this competition if you keep on replanting.  Here’s your step-by-step guide for laying out that perfect field of dreams: 

1. Write Goals Down —  To make your ideas concrete, write them down.  A popular 1979 Harvard study of students and other similar studies have demonstrated that those who write down goals far more often achieve them, than those who don’t write them down.  So this should strengthen the importance of this step for you.   There has been some research done on the kinesthetic relation between your ideas being handwritten to your brain’s receptivity of the writing, plus you can’t always carry your computer around to input fresh ideas.  Even so, typing your ideas is faster and you may be less concerned with neatness.  But however you get your ideas down, brain dump all your ideas first, then write down the eventual details of your chosen goal.  

2.  Choose Your  Goal — You can’t have what you want until you know what it is. Imagine, Choose, Create in this order.  You may want several goals that all seem beneficial, but to get started, choose one.  You will manifest it more quickly and be on to the next, rather than continuing to rethink or reconstruct your one idea over and over if you give this phase a fixed time incubation period.  Yes, knock it down and criticize it, question it with varying perspectives, but then move on to implementation.  Let “simplicity and speed” be your motto so you don’t drag out getting the result you want and you accomplish it with less effort.  You’re now putting out your clear intention to the universe, rather than just imagining it, and the universe will listen and begin to reflect results back to you. 

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This morning I dreamt about sitting at a large family gathering and suddenly one of my fingers came off.  I was not panicked and I didn’t experience pain.  I got up to go to the hospital.  Some chaos ensued in how I’d get there and where my shoes were and getting them mixed up with another family member’s shoes.  I awoke with a realization of what had previously been in the back of my mind, barely in my awareness. 

I am about to embark on two new and exciting business ventures.  I’ve had waking thoughts of wanting to be sure that whatever I do I maintain quality time with my self, my husband, family and friends.  To me the dream symbolized my concern over a loss of connection.  I looked up in a dream dictionary and it said that loss of fingers can mean a gain.  It can also mean hard work over one’s lifetime. 

I know that how hard I work, whatever I take on, and how I relate to it is up to me.  Since personal and intimate relationship connections are important, then I can experience the gains in these new ventures as long as I keep this intention clear and observe the signs along the way that remind me of this. 

Do your dreams – waking or sleeping – remind you to stay true to your deepest intentions?