I just finished reading an interesting book by Dawne Kirkwood, it’s called “Giving Birth to Me” – The Guide to Success In Birthing Your Dreams.
At first the book seemed a little odd to me, because the author draws parallels between real birth and birth of a dream, she compares ideas/dreams and babies/pregnancy. A parallel between dreams from start to finish line and pregnancy from conception to delivery/labor.
I liked her way of thinking. In the book she’s asking questions like: What would you be disappointed about not having accomplished in your life? What would you like to do before you go to your grave?
Personal, physical, emotional and financial.
No one wants to think of death, but let’s look at it as another way of motivating ourselves. Dawne Kirkwood has a point. Too many people wait for things to happen, without doing anything about it, except dreaming. But what is a dream? It’s a vision of something you want to happen, something you want to achieve. Now if you look at it as if your dream was a baby growing inside of you, you would have to protect it and help it by any means to develop and grow strong.
So let’s try to do that, let’s treat our dreams as tiny babies and do what we can to make them grow and develop into something we actually can deliver.
There will be obstacles during the “pregnancy”, complications or even miscarriages can occur, but Dawne Kirkwood suggests that you keep on focusing on the prize and how it will make you feel to finally achieve your goal/hold your “baby” in your arms.
I find this way of thinking interesting, since dreams are so important to people they are likely to treat them with love and care. But taking this kind of “love and care” to another level and view it as being pregnant with a dream is something new. The author even compares the vitamins you should take during the pregnancy to the intake of positive things in life, such as: getting intellectual stimulation by reading positive books, surrounding yourself with positive people to get support and encouragement from them, travel, take classes, journaling and more.
Positive surroundings and positive thoughts motivate you and make you do positive things so you eventually get closer to your dream.
So this is what I was talking about in my previous post “Inspiration is the keyword”, you need to find some kind of inspiration to motivate you in the right direction. I find inspiration in books and while traveling, when I’m surrounded by interesting people and when there’s no pressure on me. I want to use the idea of the book I just read on my own life and follow the exercises that are given to clarify the steps I need to take to deliver my dream, ‘cause I’m definitely “pregnant” with one.
At first the book seemed a little odd to me, because the author draws parallels between real birth and birth of a dream, she compares ideas/dreams and babies/pregnancy. A parallel between dreams from start to finish line and pregnancy from conception to delivery/labor.
I liked her way of thinking. In the book she’s asking questions like: What would you be disappointed about not having accomplished in your life? What would you like to do before you go to your grave?
Personal, physical, emotional and financial.
No one wants to think of death, but let’s look at it as another way of motivating ourselves. Dawne Kirkwood has a point. Too many people wait for things to happen, without doing anything about it, except dreaming. But what is a dream? It’s a vision of something you want to happen, something you want to achieve. Now if you look at it as if your dream was a baby growing inside of you, you would have to protect it and help it by any means to develop and grow strong.
So let’s try to do that, let’s treat our dreams as tiny babies and do what we can to make them grow and develop into something we actually can deliver.
There will be obstacles during the “pregnancy”, complications or even miscarriages can occur, but Dawne Kirkwood suggests that you keep on focusing on the prize and how it will make you feel to finally achieve your goal/hold your “baby” in your arms.
I find this way of thinking interesting, since dreams are so important to people they are likely to treat them with love and care. But taking this kind of “love and care” to another level and view it as being pregnant with a dream is something new. The author even compares the vitamins you should take during the pregnancy to the intake of positive things in life, such as: getting intellectual stimulation by reading positive books, surrounding yourself with positive people to get support and encouragement from them, travel, take classes, journaling and more.
Positive surroundings and positive thoughts motivate you and make you do positive things so you eventually get closer to your dream.
So this is what I was talking about in my previous post “Inspiration is the keyword”, you need to find some kind of inspiration to motivate you in the right direction. I find inspiration in books and while traveling, when I’m surrounded by interesting people and when there’s no pressure on me. I want to use the idea of the book I just read on my own life and follow the exercises that are given to clarify the steps I need to take to deliver my dream, ‘cause I’m definitely “pregnant” with one.
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