“Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.”—Lou Reed
We smoke our dreams in long, thin pipes and watch through half-closed lids as our plans disperse back into the darkness from which they were born. We sigh and lie back on our couch—and let another day pass unformed, unmade, unrealized…
Such, so often, was the script in the days of our affliction to addiction. So many dreams we dreamed, did we not? So many grandiose plans got hatched in a haze of jibber-jabber. So many slurred promises were made across the table to friends who didn’t care. We were the broken records, scratching out the same woulda-coulda-shouldas over and over and over again. If there was action to be had at all, it was the quest for more of whatever medication would prolong the dream. So we could prolong the dreaded moment where thought might become expression—and we made a difference in the world…
Today, let’s slide open the cabinet and flip through the files of our unfulfilled dreams. Let a dream pop out at you. One that you feel ready to juice with a dose of real world action. Pull it out, dust it off and open it up. Nice!
And now for the exercise to trigger your call to action:
Lie down on the floor. Consider the unfulfilled dream. Resolve to make the dream a reality. Get up. Stand up. Lie back down upon the carpet. Consider the unfulfilled dream. Resolve to make the dream a reality. Get up. Stand up. Lie back down. Rinse and repeat a total of ten times.
You may be surprised at how challenging it is to get up smoothly from lying flat on the floor. In fact, whole books have been written and videos produced, teaching how to get up well from a prone position. Today, we are not offering you any pro tips on this primal movement. Just get up as best you can, perhaps experimenting each time with a tweak to make it more efficient. Notice how each time you complete the get up, your resolve to turn your unfulfilled dream into action has strengthened…
It feels so good to get up with purpose and turn a dream into action.