{"id":2100,"date":"2009-03-09T07:43:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:12:28","slug":"what-i-dreamed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/03\/what-i-dreamed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What I dreamed up"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a link in my twitter (Snippets of Life) to my entry in a kind of photography contest. The contest is called Name Your Dream Assignment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The idea is to pitch your dream photo shoot and then get people to vote for you. The top 20 popular vote ideas will go before a panel of judges. The panel will decide the ultimate winner.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sitting at 103 as I write this\u2026 My Entry<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, there is a $50,000 prize to enable the dream shoot. The winner has to agree to share photos, but retains the ownership and copyright.<\/p>\n

You have to sign in to vote which takes a minute or so. The reason for the sign in is to allow them to make sure you don\u2019t vote more than once for an entry. You CAN vote for as many entries as you\u2019d like. They say they will not use sign-in info for marketing. This is a Microsoft\/Lenovo jointly sponsored contest. I believe them. I am a registered user of many Microsoft products as well as in the pool of professional technical people and I don\u2019t get anything other than what I\u2019ve asked for as far as communication from Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I\u2019d love your vote and from any of your friends and family and even people you can wrangle in the street!<\/p>\n

But mostly, what I\u2019d like you to do is think about your dream \u2013 your dream of something you\u2019d like to do, to see, to accomplish, where and how you\u2019d like to live if it is not where and how you are doing it now. And write it down. Don\u2019t worry about the words or grammar or spelling \u2013 just start and see where it goes.<\/p>\n

Writing down a vision for anything is powerful. Writing down the dream, clarifies what is really important to you. Once written, the words have a way of honing your daily decisions \u2013 keeping you on track towards that thing that is important enough to you that you wrote it down. The words help you say no to some of those requests for your time that don\u2019t help you along the way \u2013 I don\u2019t mean things like laundry, feeding your kids, going to work \u2013 and I\u2019m talking \u201csome\u201d\u2026you will think before automatically saying yes. And you will be happier for it!<\/p>\n

It is funny how things happen. A post from a blogging friend about the current state of affairs in the United States and concern about the direction things are going got me thinking. There are a couple of young women \u2013 self employed making various items \u2013 their blogs share how things are going with them. One thought she might need to take a \u201creal\u201d job, but her online shop continues to expand. There is a lot of cheering going on in her comment section as well as the others. They are doing well – on their own, doing what they love.<\/p>\n

I got thinking about the many positive things that could come out of this time. Perspective. A need to move in with family, while possibly horrifying to contemplate initially, might turn into an opportunity to be closer. A loss of job might be the opportunity to change careers, thinking about what you really want to do. The need for a simpler existence with less stuff, less going out, might evolve into a long term way of living \u2013 more joy, less stress – simple, real values – what we all say we want.<\/p>\n

Back to dreaming… Even if you don\u2019t want to sign in and vote, I encourage you to go to the contest site and read some of the dream assignment entries. Many are interesting and some are inspirational. And then go write down your own dream\u2026and see what happens.<\/p>\n

Name Your Dream Assignment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My Entry<\/a><\/p>\n

Go! \u2013 and Write! It is a new day – Dream big!<\/p>\n

Edited 3\/14\/2009. Although I absolutely believe in being clear on our dreams and hopes, I withdrew from this contest. Not many voted for one thing and I am not willing to mount a serious “campaign for votes”. The project is something I’m capable of doing on my own, something I really have been doing although not with much focus on other’s stories. I’ll continue.<\/p>\n

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