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No spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion.  George Eliot

Those who do not understand their destiny, will never understand the friends they have made, nor the work they have chosen, nor the one life that waits beyond all others.   David Whyte in All the true vows in River Flow, p. 349.

So many people won’t take the Steve Jobs route because they fear, if not know, that their dreams are not worth pursuing.

We need to get people to practise taking a small dream and bringing it alive.  It is only then that we might agree, very deep down with Frank Boyd of Unexpected Media, that it is easier to make the interesting feasible than the feasible interesting.

In his address to the Creativity: Innovation & Industry Conference in Leicester last week, Frank Boyd also spoke of pitching: a process of testing dreams by speaking them aloud and shaping them as we go.

I’ve used this in the inverse during coaching.  Rather than spend hours with psychological tests, I’ve asked youngsters to page through the newspaper and point out who they would like to be like.  By watching their eyes, it is quite easy to zone in on what they truly want and help them to take small steps to shape and pursue their dream.

I stumbled this site.  You can look your dreams, tag them, and look at similar dreams from others.

Excellent site to put your anxieties and dreams in perspective.