Dream painting, taking stock and focus

Visualising a personal dream painting. A sometimes difficult exercise as I believe we suppress our dreams when they feel far-fetched. May be that’s why I think this is such a good exercise. It was my coach and good friend who developed it and we have used some of it in our leadership training.

Looking back at 2010 and contemplating on 2011, what can you learn and what do you want your life to look like? Here are the questions that I brought with me to India; not the kind of questions where there is one right answer or where you can give an immediate answer. More the kind of questions you need time to contemplate, chew, discuss and dream. Answers that are somewhere in you, but need some searching and digging to appear…

• What do you consider to be your major achievements in 2010?
• What concerns and/or challenges have taken most of your attention during 2010?
• What do you consider your main disappointments in 2010, if any?
• How did you limit yourself in 2010? What habits and/or thought processes do you need to drop going forward?
• What did you learn about yourself in 2010? What are the most important realisations in the year?
  

Imagine you are looking at a painting with all your dreams. Think big and feel big! This is not the time to analyse. It’s a dream painting! Now...

• What are the different categories of dreams?
• For each category, what are the 3-5 dreams you may achieve in 2011?
• What are you ready to attract into your life in 2011?
• What are you willing to let go of in 2011?
• What is your theme for 2011?
• What does your ideal day look like in 2011?
• What is going to stop you from achieving all this? What are the risks? What are you going to do about that?