you've already got what you wanted: how to realise your dreams
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From the talk at #dareconf mini, 20 January 2014. View the whiteboard animations from slides 3, 12, 17 and 25 separately on YouTube: http://youtu.be/tAIXMaO9HhwTRANSCRIPT
How to realise your dreams
@gabrielsmy
Excuses, excuses, excuses
Most people have got what they wanted
[VIDEO]
“I have written 11 books, but each time I think, 'Uh-oh, they're going to find [me] out now’”
Maya Angelou
Commitment comes first
“The moment one definitely commits oneself then providence moves too”
W.H. Murray
The work we have to do versus
the work we want to do
Constraints are how things happen
“I thought I was going to live the life of a writer, sitting in pubs drinking Guinness.
But I like having a day job, too. I can only write, it turns out, when I have no apparent spare time.”
Magnus Mills
Paradoxes are creative
We need other people like the holes in our head
Jungian archetypes[VIDEO]
King/queen
Warrior
Wizard
Lover/friend
4 stages of change[VIDEO]
Disruption
Disorder
Reordering
New relationship
On the terraces— stories, commentary, opinion,
excuses, gossip, whining
On the pitch—offers and requests
Two committed people
Action
Delivery date
Commit already[VIDEO]