Making Dreams Real

Many years ago, a friend and I facilitated several mutual support groups where participants helped each other define their dreams and create plans for achieving them. We organized the group loosely around the method created by author/coach Barbara Sher, which she describes in her perennial best seller Wishcraft. Back then, she'd given readers permission to use her method in group work as long as we didn't call it "wishcraft," a name reserved for life coaches she personally trained.

Neither my friend (who has since moved back to Texas) nor I are counselors. We don't have certificates and credentials. We were just two ordinary people who were tired of trying to get from Here to There on our own. We knew there must be others who felt the same way, and we suspected that banding together would help all of us.

It's been years since we worked with our groups but almost daily I still meet people who either feel dissatisfied but don't know exactly what they want to achieve, or who know exactly what they want but don't know how to achieve it. Even in a tough economy and cynical national mood, people still have an incredible drive to realize (real-ize: to make real) their dreams.

Over the next posts I'll share some of the resources and tricks we discovered along the way. I hope that in some small way this helps you take steps towards realizing your own dreams this year.