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22 1 CD Two 2 3 Now it's time to decide for a dream. Now if I ask you right now 'So what is your 4 dream? What would you love to be, do, create, express, experience? What is your 5 dream? The vast majority of people can not answer that question. They really 6 don't know what they want. They have been thinking about what's possible from 7 what they think they can have. So it's a reorientation of how to think to allow 8 ourselves to explore possibilities, really explore possibilities. This is a story about 9 a fisherman who goes to a great fishing stream he's heard about and he's been 10 wanting to go there for a long time. Finally he gets there and he throws his line in 11 the water and he waits. He looks down the bank and there's an old fisherman 12 down the bank and he's just pulling in one fish after another. Every fish the 13 fisherman pulls out of the stream, he unhooks it and he measures the fish by a 14 broken off ruler that laying there on the edge of the river bank. If the fish is bigger 15 than the broken off ruler the fisherman tosses the fish back in the stream. If 16 however the fish is smaller than the broken off ruler the fisherman puts that fish 17 in his bucket. The young fisherman is watching this and he thinks why is he 18 throwing all the big fish back and keeping the little ones? Do they get bony if they 19

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Now it's time to decide for a dream. Now if I ask you right now 'So what is your 4

dream? What would you love to be, do, create, express, experience? What is your 5

dream? The vast majority of people can not answer that question. They really 6

don't know what they want. They have been thinking about what's possible from 7

what they think they can have. So it's a reorientation of how to think to allow 8

ourselves to explore possibilities, really explore possibilities. This is a story about 9

a fisherman who goes to a great fishing stream he's heard about and he's been 10

wanting to go there for a long time. Finally he gets there and he throws his line in 11

the water and he waits. He looks down the bank and there's an old fisherman 12

down the bank and he's just pulling in one fish after another. Every fish the 13

fisherman pulls out of the stream, he unhooks it and he measures the fish by a 14

broken off ruler that laying there on the edge of the river bank. If the fish is bigger 15

than the broken off ruler the fisherman tosses the fish back in the stream. If 16

however the fish is smaller than the broken off ruler the fisherman puts that fish 17

in his bucket. The young fisherman is watching this and he thinks why is he 18

throwing all the big fish back and keeping the little ones? Do they get bony if they 19

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get big or something? I mean what's going on here? So he goes down and he 20

interrupts the old guy. He says 'Could you explain to me about why you throw the 21

big fish back and keep the little ones? Do they get bony if they get big or 22

something?' The old guy says 'Sonny look at this. See that broken off ruler there 23

on the edge of the river bank?' The kid says 'Yeah, I see it.' and the old guy goes 'I 24

just measure every fish that I catch by that broken off ruler because that broken 25

off ruler is broken off at exactly the size of the frying pan I use.' 26

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Now, we'd laugh at a fisherman that would be like that but you know, 28

unconsciously we all do that. The stream of life tosses us a big fish. It's an idea. 29

It's a possibility. It's a possible future and we measure that idea by the frying pan 30

or the life that we have and we say I don't have the education. I don't have the 31

money. I am too old. I don't have the age. I don't have the contacts. My frying pan 32

doesn't hold that dream. And unconsciously we will throw that fish, that idea, 33

that dream back into the stream of life and say give me a fish that fits my frying 34

pan. Give me an idea that is just a little bit of a rearrangement of the life I have 35

known that I think is possible based on the circumstances I have. 36

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So here's the deal: In your hands right now is five hundred and twenty-five 38

thousand in change and you get to spend it any way you want to. Imagine that. 39

Feel that for just a moment. Let yourself feel the power. If you really believed that 40

you had five hundred and twenty-five thousand in change you could spend any 41

way you wanted to...for most of us that's a lot of substance. The truth is that every 42

one of us, the people you think are the most successful you've ever even imagined 43

knowing or hanging out with or possibly having any part of the life they are 44

living, they had exactly the same amount of commodity that you have which is 45

five hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. That's the same 46

number. If you live twelve more months you are going to have five hundred and 47

twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes that you will invest. 48

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If you are not careful, many of us have been trained to invest a great commodity 50

of those minutes in rehearsing our past, maybe cursing a circumstance, nursing a 51

problem, fueling a resentment and the way the mind works--just as you cannot 52

tell the mind not to think about the Statue of Liberty anything you hold in your 53

mind reproduces after its kind in your circumstances. The law of the farm is very 54

much analogous to the law of the mind; that ideas you hold in mind reproduce 55

after their kind. Everything is created twice. When I discovered this my back was 56

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up against the wall with a death sentence hanging over me. So I was--I think it 57

was Samuel Adams who once said nothing sharpens a man's senses like knowing 58

he's going to the gallows in the morning. I was teachable at that moment because 59

I was scared. But once I got past being scared and began to see that the thoughts I 60

shaped in my thinking had great power in my experience, I began to want to be a 61

student of how it is that the mind works. How is it that these capacities that are 62

given to every one of us some of us use those same capacities in service of great 63

dreams? Others of us use the same capacities to create great problems; to create 64

great difficulty; to live in lack and limitation when the same power is available to 65

all of us. If we all breathe for one year the same amount of time is given to each 66

one of us. So, one fisherman measures the fish by the size of the frying pan. 67

Another fisherman says I am getting a bigger frying pan. 68

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Now this lesson is about you deciding for yourself for a dream. Now many people 70

get stuck at this point because they want to get it right. They want to make sure 71

that the dream they decide for is absolutely the perfect dream. But here's the deal, 72

you don't get to not create. You are one with this creative process called life itself 73

and something wonderful is happening with you right now. Something wonderful 74

is happening with you right now. It is this thing called life. You are breathing. You 75

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can't make yourself breathe. You can't even make yourself have one heartbeat. 76

Life is happening with you right now and life is creative. So you don't get to not 77

be creative. You don't get to sit on the sidelines and say 'I'm going to stop the 78

creative process while I decide what is a great dream. You work with the process 79

to shape the next highest order dream and on the way to that dream you can be 80

redirected to a higher and higher dream if you choose. But even if you say 'I don't 81

want to make a mistake. I think I will just stay in bed and put the covers over my 82

head.' Then what I created is a day in bed with the covers overhead. 83

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I don't get to not create. I only get to create two ways. One is out of design and the 85

other is out of default. So if I don't design a dream and design a direction for my 86

life my mind will go to the default patterns of my previous thinking and shape my 87

reality based on the patterns that are provided to the mind, just as a field can only 88

grow based on the seeds that are in it. You might really wish for a different crop 89

but if you don't plant the seeds of a different crop and a seed will always produce 90

the fruit of its kind. If you plant a pear seed you are not going to get apples. If I 91

plant thoughts that are repeated patterns of the history I have had, I am going to 92

recreate that history as my current reality. This is how it works. So this is a 93

wonderful time to give yourself some room to explore possibilities, to begin to 94

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consider what you would love to do, experience, express in four basic domains of 95

life, because you are going to create in those domains anyway. 96

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One of those domains is your physical health. Now if you could imagine the 98

health spectrum as a horizontal line across a page with a small vertical line at the 99

center point of that horizontal line. And consider this is the health and wellbeing 100

spectrum. Everything to the left of that small vertical line at the center of the 101

horizontal line, everything to the left is symptomology. Everything to the right is 102

absence of symptomology and an increasing wellbeing. So some people think just 103

being just a little to the right of that line is health; wellbeing. It means I don't 104

have any pain. I don't have any symptoms. But there is another whole realm of 105

possibility of health, wellbeing, feeling good in your own skin, having a strong self 106

esteem, having quickness of mind, alertness, strength, stamina. And on the other 107

side is the recovery of symptomology and the release of pain as you move forward 108

to the right in the upward spiral of health and wellbeing. What is your dream in 109

regard to your own health and wellbeing? 110

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Now, your dreams speak to you in two ways. They inform you. Because here's 112

how the mind works, you have a conscious mind, you have a subconscious mind; 113

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realm of mind--it's one mind--but part of it's conscious, part of it is subconscious, 114

meaning out of your awareness and the mind that you work with, your conscious 115

and subconscious is of the superconscious. They are not three minds. There is 116

one mind everywhere present. You and I have access literally to the mind of God; 117

to the mind of the universe; to this infinite intelligence. You and I have access to 118

that. Most of us take a thimble into that mind. The truth is we can go as deep as 119

we want to with any question we want to ask. I heard it once said and I believe it's 120

true that the quality of our life is determined by the quality of question we learn 121

to ask. So example, you could say I wonder how I could get two weeks off from 122

work and not lose any pay and when you ask that question, I wonder how I could 123

get two weeks off and not lose any pay, ideas that are coherent or resonant with 124

that question will start to come to you. How you could get two weeks off without 125

losing any pay. But you could just as well ask I wonder how I could take two 126

weeks in the South of France and make ten thousand dollars doing it? I wonder 127

how I could do that. And you will then become a magnet to ideas that are 128

coherent or resonant with that question. You can ask as little or big a question as 129

you want. 130

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Thomas Edison named his first incandescent bulb the Mazda Lamp, after the 132

man who taught him how to gain access to the mind of the infinite. To take big 133

questions and ask questions that were shaped by the inventions he wanted to 134

make. The dreams he had. He called this the land of the solution, learning that he 135

had access to the land of the solution. He would sit; many of us have been told 136

they were called Edison's catnaps. Actually he was practicing a form of 137

technology. You could call it meditation, self inquiry; going into the land of the 138

solution he called it. And he would rock in a rocker and hold a physical rock in his 139

hand and then if he actually fell asleep the rock would drop out of his hand and it 140

would awaken him. But he had learned how to ask questions and then listen and 141

then follow--some people call it follow the yellow brick road--it's go to the edge of 142

the light you see. And this is how it's done. 143

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So you have first a realm that is your physical wellbeing; health and wellbeing. 145

What is your dream in that area? Remember your dreams speak to you in two 146

ways, first through your longing and secondly through your discontent. And the 147

way the mind works, with your conscious mind, your subconscious mind all 148

having access to this land of solution or the superconscious mind. It's analogous 149

actually to a computer. If you have a computer or can imagine a computer, what's 150

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on what's called the desktop, or what you are working on; what you can see when 151

you look at your computer that would be like the conscious mind. You are 152

attending to it. You have your attention on it. Everything in the files, all the 153

software, everything in the hard drive, all of that is the subconscious mind; it's 154

already been programmed into the computer. It's already stored there. But the 155

internet is like the superconscious. You have access to knowledge, to information, 156

to resource, to people, to connection that you can't even begin to imagine. 157

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It's all right there just awaiting you. Do you long for a close, intimate, deep, 159

potent, powerful relationship with another? Do you long to design or remodel or 160

recapture with someone you are in a deep relationship with that you want to take 161

it deeper, make it stronger, have more fun? Where's your longing? Do you long to 162

meet new people? What's your longing in the area of relationship? Where's your 163

discontent? Is there some discontent with perhaps some discord or distance in a 164

relationship you either are in or have had and it plagues you. It bothers you 165

whenever that person walks through the street of your mind you bump into them 166

and it's not a comfortable experience even though it's not physically happening 167

it's internally happening. Where's the longing? Where's the discontent? If you 168

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built a dream in the area of your relationships what is that like? What is the life 169

you would love to live because you have relationships? 170

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The third area is the area of your creative expression or your work in the world. 172

How you express you. Do you long to write that book? Open that business? Write 173

that travel log and travel and write about it? I don't know what it is for you but I 174

know that there is some longing for you to express you in the world and what is 175

that? Pay attention to that. Honor that discontent. Honor that longing. How 176

would you like to express you in the world? Maybe you are in a business you'd 177

like to close it, get out of it, remodel it, reshape it, expand it, maybe it's doing five 178

million and you want it to do ten. What is it that is your longing and your 179

discontent in the area of your creative expression; your work in the world? What 180

would you love to be and do, experience, express, give? Those ideas begin to come 181

to you, shape themselves in you. Honor them. This is life itself seeking ever freer, 182

fuller expanded expression. You will have the support of life. You don't have to 183

figure it out now. In fact, it's not your business how but it is your business what. 184

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So you have health and wellbeing, you have relationships, you have your own 186

creative expression and you have the freedom and flow with which you move in 187

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the material realm, or your financial supply, your ability to move freely and fully 188

in the material realm. Now ultimately money is really only good for two things. 189

Many people think if I could just get the money then I would...Here's the truth 190

about money. Money is energy and money is the demonstrated relationship we 191

have with the infinite and the flow we are harmonized with. Money really is only 192

good for two things. It's good to make us comfortable enough, number one, so we 193

can be creative enough to deliver our gift. So if you are cold and you are hungry 194

you are not going to be creative enough to deliver your gift. If you are worried 195

about paying your bills you are not going to be creative enough to deliver your 196

gift. And that is not the universe's plan for your life. It's a signal of being out of 197

harmony with yourself and with the way it works in the universe because the 198

more you are in harmony with the laws of life and the application of those in the 199

presencing of your daily choices and living, life seeks to ever expand and express 200

in greater and freer and fuller ways. Life gets easier as you get more in harmony 201

with the laws of life. That life is seeking a greater freer, fuller expression as you. 202

So this is all about things getting easier, so when you think about freedom and 203

flow in the financial; the material realm, what's your dream? 204

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So now you begin to shape a possibility; a life you'd like to live. Physically, 206

relationally, expressively, your work, your money, how you spend your leisure 207

time, what you do for your community, what is the life you would love to live? 208

And your job really, and your opportunity, is to begin to let those images emerge. 209

Begin to let them shape themselves at first in the chamber of your own thinking 210

and then the important thing is that you will write your dream down. There's new 211

research out that really gives scientific evidence to something that great goal 212

achievers have known for many, many years and that is the amplified power 213

towards a dream when you actually write it down. The most recent brain research 214

tells us this, that one part of our brain is activated when we have an idea, when 215

we are mulling around an idea and we are thinking about our dream. It does 216

activate a part of our brain which sends wavelengths. 217

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Everything is a frequency. Everything is vibrating at different rates. It's all energy 219

and so you are actually shaping your reality by the thought forms that you hold 220

and then focus upon and energize over time. So if you want to build a dream, just 221

like you want to build a house, at first you build a foundation. If you want to build 222

a great house you get the blueprint, have a picture in mind of what you really 223

want to create and then you dig out and you create what's called a foundation 224

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form. Then the cement truck comes down the street and it pours liquid cement 225

and that liquid cement will take the shape of whatever form you give it. This 226

spiritual substance, this thinking substance pours itself into whatever form you 227

give it. So you are giving it now a form; a blueprint in your mind of a possible life, 228

a life that delights you. We are going to test your dream in the next section. This 229

section is about you deciding for a dream. 230

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So to remind us now, dreams speak to us in two ways. They speak to us both 232

through our longing and they speak to us through our discontent. So if we are 233

longing for something, we feel this longing to experience or be or do or express 234

and if we are feeling discontented it's like there's this feeling of being closed in, 235

hemmed in. We are feeling held back from what life could really be. Pay 236

attention. Think about something you are paying. You know, you pay money for 237

something you want. The first stage here is pay attention to that longing and that 238

discontent. Something is not wrong if you are feeling discontented. Something is 239

not wrong if you are feeling like gee I would like to have more. Is this all there is? 240

In fact, this is life speaking to you. This is good. So what do you do with that 241

longing or that discontent? When you are feeling that just pause for a moment. 242

Take a deep breath. Spend a little time exploring what is it that life is saying to 243

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me right now? What is it that is possible that if I could wave a magic wand or if 244

money were no limit or if I didn't have only this much background of education 245

or whatever the thought is that keeps me contained in a small life, if I blow past 246

that basically and say if I had a magic wand what would I do? And then open up 247

to possibilities; ideas that can come to you. Alright? 248

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Now the truth is it says biblically but not just in the Christian scripture, it says it 250

in all kinds of different traditions and philosophies that every one of us has been 251

given this creative power. In Genesis it says that in the beginning God said let 252

there be and then there was a clear description. God didn't say 'Let there 253

be...hmm. I wonder. Let's see what comes up.' You know? It's not like that. God 254

said let there be light and earth and firmament and animals and fowl and fish and 255

people and there's pictures. It's an allegory to describe to us that that same 256

creative power in us works through pictures. So as you are exploring your 257

discontent and your longing, what are the pictures that would emerge that would 258

solve that longing and answer that discontent? Let those begin to be shaped in 259

the chamber of your own mind. This is basically the most important thing you 260

can do for yourself right now is to allow some pictures to emerge of a possible life 261

that you would love to live and the part of your mind that is arguing for the 262

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conditions and says you can't and don't you know...just for a moment just let that 263

part of your mind say whatever it wants to say but you put your attention on what 264

you would love to be and do and experience and express. 265

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I met a woman once who shared with me her particular dream. Her name was 267

Goody Cable. Goody loved to sit and visit with people and she loved to hear their 268

stories and she loved to understand what it was that made people think and do 269

what they did. She was an avid reader. She loved to create environments where 270

people could hang out and be together and her first dream, or first version of this, 271

that answered what she loved to do and who she loved to hang out with and how 272

she loved to live was for her to create a coffee shop. She was an unusually 273

interested reader and so she created an unusual coffee shop. It had different size 274

tables. It had decor. It was inviting and it was a coffee shop and a dessert house. 275

Room in which this coffee house was housed and people would come and sit and 276

enter into these conversations and Goody loved it because she loved the 277

conversations. She loved getting to know the people. 278

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Over time the dream began to shift. It began to grow into another dream and 280

you'll see this happen in your life, that as you move towards one dream and you 281

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begin to manifest, behind that is even something greater and more and even 282

behind that and just as you think of a spiral going up, up, up, so shall your life. So 283

as she had manifested the ability to get with people, hear people's stories, 284

understand how they thought and were exploring and introduced them to new 285

ideas through the books she would bring and set on the tables. What had been 286

her dream became a small frying pan for the dream she wanted because now she 287

decided what she really wanted was to have conversations with people that 288

couldn't happen in just an hour or two when they came to the coffee shop. She 289

thought you know if I had a hotel and if people came and stayed for days we could 290

have a big library, we could have...at the top of the hotel we could have a 291

gathering room and we could have a fireplace and she could just see people 292

sitting around staying up late at night having conversations and discussing 293

important things and ideas and philosophies and as the embers of the fire would 294

grow dim the coffee would be emptied out of the pot and whatever else was going 295

on in the room and the last of the dessert was being eaten. The conversations 296

would be deep and rich and powerful. 297

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This was her dream. This was what she wanted. Now as she began to explore that 299

possibility her paradigm was absolutely how are you going have all this? She had 300

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no money. She didn't have all the things but she loved the dream. So she began to 301

just nurture the dream and she began to build that hotel inside her own mind. 302

She began to say if money were no issue, if my dream were free to be all that it 303

could be what would it look like? Even though her mind was arguing for the no 304

money and bad timing and you are a woman and you don't have somebody to 305

help you...it's like no. She thought ok if none of those things are true OR if those 306

things didn’t' determine what was possible, what is the hotel I would love to have. 307

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Then she began to explore and stretch her thinking. She decided you know I 309

would love to create that hotel at the Oregon Coast with a vast ocean in front of 310

us, the vast ocean as analogous to the vast ocean of possibilities; the vast ocean of 311

exploration that can be done in the human thinking and the conversations that 312

could occur. She thought being on the ocean would be conducive to those 313

conversations. She thought you know if money were no issue then what would the 314

hotel really look like inside? And she thought you know I want to create a hotel. 315

I'd love to have it at the beach. I want the hotel to be a place that explores deep 316

thinking so what if every room were name after a great author? An author that I 317

have a great deal of respect for, that every room would be named after a different 318

author I like. Wow. 319

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She began to get excited about that and she began to fall in love with the idea; fall 321

in love with the dream. This is a key component. You don't want a dream that's 322

something you think you have to do, something that somebody else wants you to 323

do. That's not your dream. That's the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic. 324

Your dream is intrinsic to your own life force. It's something you really want. 325

Goody loved to have those conversations. Her dream was not my dream but it 326

was her dream and she fell in love with the idea. She started thinking of having a 327

Melville room, having an Edgar Allen Poe room. There was a whimsical side to 328

her so she wanted a Dr.Seuss room and on and on and on. One of her favorite 329

authors was a woman named Sylvia Beach, so she decided she would call it the 330

Sylvia Beach hotel. She began to build that hotel in her mind. She thought about 331

the restaurant and she wanted to call the restaurant The Table of Contents and 332

that people would gather at big table. They wouldn't sit by themselves. There 333

would be large table so it would invoke and invite conversations. She said we will 334

just serve great food and no one will sit by themselves. They will sit at large 335

tables. Conversation will abound. We will play games there. She just listed all of 336

this out and she wrote it all down. 337

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And remember, if you think an idea it only invokes one part of your brain. If you 339

speak your dream it invokes another part of your brain and your wavelengths 340

expand. There's more coherency. The difference between incandescent light that 341

is what we experience most of the time--the wavelengths of light just go 342

everywhere so it fills the room. It's incandescent light--the difference between 343

that light and laser that will cut through steel is really only one thing: Coherence 344

or focus. So what we know about brainwave activity is that if you think it you 345

have one level of coherence, if you speak it you have more coherence and if you 346

write it down you take from right brain to left brain. You activate both sides of 347

your brain. You have not only thought it and spoken it but you have written it 348

down. The whole brain goes to work on that idea. Not only when you are 349

conscious of it but when you are unconscious of it. The subconscious mind is at 350

work. So it's very, very important and she wrote down her dream. She built that 351

hotel on paper. 352

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Everything is created twice. First it begins in thought before it can ever begin in 354

form. She described the hotel in detail. It had a great ocean view. The restaurant 355

in the hotel was wonderful. People gathered. They sat at big tables. So she 356

painted her dream in her mind. She wrote it down on paper and of course the 357

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human mind said to her but you don't have any money, I don't have the 358

resources. And so she began the practice that we are working with with dream 359

building. The first step isn't about figuring out how to make it happen. In fact as 360

soon as your mind goes to but I don't know how to make this happen, that's a 361

good place to remind yourself that's not my business. It's not my business how. 362

That's the universe's business. It's not my business to tell a corn seed to become a 363

corn stalk; to do all the things it needs to do so that it can bear the fruit so that I 364

can eat the ear of corn. It's not my business to do that. But it is my business to 365

carefully select good seed, to make sure the soil is ready and to nurture it. It's my 366

business to put it in good soil. It's my business to make sure that it's tended and 367

cared for and then let nature take its course. And nature will take its course with 368

your dream as well as it did with Goody's. 369

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What happened is she practiced the principles that we are practicing. But it didn't 371

start because the idea just happened to drop in all of a sudden. A dream is 372

something like you are mining for it, like you are mining for gold. You look into 373

your life, you pull up the sand of your life and you kind of shake it out and you 374

ask what's my dream? What's my dream in my health, my relationships, my work, 375

my money, my freedom and flow? Do I get to do what I want to do? So Goody 376

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started thinking ok well if I want to have this hotel what would I do? The first 377

thing she thought about is well I would go find a hotel that I want to buy or I 378

would find a piece of land I want to build on. So she started going to the Oregon 379

coast. And she kept her written statement and she would read her dream in the 380

morning and she would read it at night. Imaginally she began to move inside the 381

hotel and she would see herself climbing the stairs to the upper room in this hotel 382

which had slanted ceilings kind of like an attic but it was big and welcoming and 383

there was overstuffed furniture in it and it would house about thirty people to sit 384

in a circle or smaller conversations could occur. It had a big stone fireplace and 385

big windows that looked out on the ocean so people could gather there during the 386

day but certainly in the evening. Basically she was imagining these late night 387

conversations and she would be sitting there listening and sharing and they'd be 388

invoking ideas and great dreams would be dreamed up in those kinds of 389

conversations. Imaginally she began to not only fall in love with the idea but 390

dwell inside this hotel that lived inside her mind. It was written down on paper. 391

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Ultimately she would find a piece of property with an old hotel on it that needed 393

refurbishing and needed remodeling and she started. She said ok now I am going 394

to go to a bank and see about borrowing some money. She wrote a great business 395

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plan. She had had a coffee house, she had some business experience. She 396

presented her idea and she was turned down but not to be thwarted she tried 397

again. She went to a different bank. She was turned down. She repolished and 398

deepened and expanded her business plan and went back to a third bank. She 399

was turned down. Twenty-nine times Goody was turned down over the next six 400

months. And she went again one more time and that time she was accepted. She 401

said the truth is if it had taken fifty times I would have kept going fifty times. My 402

friend Mark Victor Hansen said that his idea for Chicken Soup for the Soul, he 403

and Jack Canfield's idea, was turned down many, many, many times by 404

publishers before and they just didn't give up. That's part of what happens here is 405

you have to be so in love with your dream that the first few things that don't move 406

the way you wish they would move cannot stop you. You have to love your dream 407

more than you get stopped by any problem, but we will talk about that later. 408

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Over time Goody got some friends who helped her and they decorated the 410

Melville room and they decorated the Edgar Allen Poe room and they decorated 411

the Seuss room and all the other rooms that represented other authors. Sylvia 412

Beech Hotel opened and there was a huge rainstorm and yet still hundreds of 413

people came to do the tour that day. They sat around the Table of Contents that 414

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night, enjoyed food and that evening as they were up in the upper room having 415

conversations, late in the evening Goody looked around and here were the people 416

having these conversations. The fire had gone down to the embers. The last of the 417

coffee had been drunk. The rest of the dessert was now crumbs on the plates and 418

she realized it was exactly what she had dreamed in her own mind and now she 419

was right in the midst of that dream. 420

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What is your dream? What would you love to be or do or experience or express? 422

Now get real clear about what are some of your possibilities. You have an infinite 423

number of possibilities you can choose from but you are going to pick something. 424

You are going to pick something that is your possible dream for yourself. You 425

don't have to pick a dream that is your ultimate all time lifetime dream. Just pick 426

something because if you keep breathing you are going to breathe through five 427

hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes and you will create a 428

year of your life. It will come out of the default position or out of the design. So 429

give it a great design. 430