Joyce Chapman - Live Your Dream Workbook

second edition Discover and Live the
Life of Your DreamsByJoyce Chapman, M.A. Copyright 2002 by Joyce Chapman All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. THE LIVE YOUR DREAM WORKBOOK 2ND EDITION
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www.newpagebooks.com The author and publisher of this book do not dispense medical or psychiatric advice, nor prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for medical or psychiatric problems without the advice of a physician or therapist, either directly or indirectly. The intent of this book is to offer information of a general nature to help the reader in his or her quest for emotional well-being.

In the event the reader uses the information contained herein for personal therapy, the author and publisher assume no responsibility for this action. ISBN 1-56414-533-6 This book is dedicated to
all those visionaries who are
dreaming big dreams and working to make them reality.

I want to thank all the wonderful authors and teachers whose ideas have helped me learn and grow. Thank you also to all the Live Your Dream workshop participants and coaching clients who, with open hearts, shared their own growth to enrich this workbook. A note of appreciation to Diane Chalfant, Eva Ditler, Gina Misiroglu, and Nancy Reid-Edwards for their marvelous talents and skills. Chapter 1:
Defining the Dream Chapter 2:
Clearing Away Obstructions to Be Clear About Your Dream Chapter 3:
A Winning Attitude Chapter 4:
Taking Inventory and Taking Charge Chapter 5:
Your Power to Turn Negatives Into Positives Chapter 6:
Dare to Stretch and Expand Chapter 7:
Keeping the Dream Alive If you are ready to embrace living true to yourself and achieving your wishes, hopes, and dreams you will want to begin writing in this workbook right away! The Live Your Dream Workbook is a companion book designed to be used in conjunction with my book, Live Your Dream. Chapter 1:
Defining the Dream Chapter 2:
Clearing Away Obstructions to Be Clear About Your Dream Chapter 3:
A Winning Attitude Chapter 4:
Taking Inventory and Taking Charge Chapter 5:
Your Power to Turn Negatives Into Positives Chapter 6:
Dare to Stretch and Expand Chapter 7:
Keeping the Dream Alive If you are ready to embrace living true to yourself and achieving your wishes, hopes, and dreams you will want to begin writing in this workbook right away! The Live Your Dream Workbook is a companion book designed to be used in conjunction with my book, Live Your Dream.

The exercises in this workbook provide you with the opportunity to achieve mental preparedness, motivation, understanding, self-knowledge, and technical ability to discover your own unique life dreams and bring them into full realization. They are arranged in sequence so that as you work the program you identify your own inner blocks, begin to build your desired life script, and learn the skills necessary to achieve your life purpose. This workbook gives you solid, proven techniques to mold your life plan so that you can live true to your ultimate potential. The exercises can be used as a personal tool for greater self-understanding and provide a way for you to take the drivers seat in living the life of your dreams. It is highly recommended that the original Live Your Dream book be used along with the workbook to reinforce and assist you along your journey toward self-discovery. This original book is filled with real life stories, comments from participants in the Live Your Dream workshop series, sample diagrams and lists, and in-depth explanations to aid you as you work through the exercises.

You will find that by using the book as a supplement, you will further enrich the experience of discovering your inner self, evoking change, and becoming whole. But even if you decide to use this workbook without the basic text, you will discover that by simply giving honest answers to the workbook questions you will gain insight, be able to establish new patterns, and successfully create the life that you choose. So, whether you decide to use the workbook alone as a simple compilation of exercises arranged in a step-by-step approach or side by side with the Live Your Dream book, with effort, commitment, and discipline, the Live Your Dream workshop techniques will empower you to live the life of your dreams.

If someone walked up to you and told you, You can have your life only if you take a step toward living your dream today, how would you respond? Well, life is saying just thateach and every momentto you. If youre not busy living to your fullest potential, parts of you are busy fading away. Discovering and identifying our dreams is often difficult.

We are often trained to live according to someone elses idea of what we should be, and the inner knowing we once possessed lies buried beneath years and years of suppressing our own wishes and desires. Sometimes we know what our dream is but, because of our fears, we dont pursue it. And, sometimes, we hang onto dead dreams of yesterday that are not valid today. The journaling questions in this chapter are designed to trigger associations and guide you to your inner knowing of exactly what your dream is. The answers you provide will let your dream surface, take shape, and attain clarity. As you answer these questions, be brutally honest with yourself.

You may have to let go of things youve been clinging to or are uncomfortable with to make room for your new, expanded experience. In the process, you will find where your passion lies. You will discover the source of your enthusiasm. As you do the exercises and begin to express aspects of yourself more fully, you will experience a growing sense of inner peace and fulfillment, as well as a tremendous aliveness and connectedness with life. You will become the actualized dreamer. As you answer these questions and contemplate what your dream means to you, your dream may peak shyly through a crack in your awareness or it may present itself boldly and dramatically.

Your challenge as you work your way through this chapter will be to pay attention to the messages you receive from your inner guidance. Remember that you are right where you are supposed to be and that, as you focus on realizing what your dream means to you, the missing pieces of the life you want to be living will begin to come into focus. Now, focus on your dream. Enjoy watching it emerge and evolve. How will I express who I am in this lifetime? What is the greatest achievement I can imagine myself accomplishing? What is the greatest contribution I could possibly make? What is the mark I would make on the world if I were in charge of my life and there were no reasons or excuses why I couldnt? Who is the greatest me I can imagine being? What are the implications of living my dream? Here is a cluster diagram showing chain reactions of the effects that living my dream may have on my life: (Think of a cluster diagram as drawing stepping stones leading to your dream life.) If you dont have a dream, your life will be about your problems. What is my life about today? What are some of the problems draining my life away? What things do I do differently because I am living my dream? Which of my problems of today might become opportunities for learning tomorrow? What messages from within do I want to begin to honor? Which parts of my status quo am I most worried about upsetting? Where does my passion lie? What aspects of myself long to be expressed more fully? When have I felt the most alive and connected with life? In what ways am I living according to someone elses idea of what I should be or do or according to someone elses truth? How would my life look if I forgot about being modest and made my own greatest wishes and desires known? Have I had trouble identifying what my dream is, or have I stalled somewhere along the way to making my dream a reality? Am I holding onto any dead dreams? What blocks do I have to doing what I really want to do? What would it take to move beyond each one? What dream job would I like to see become my real job? What are some potential abilities or interests that I am not expressing? How can I express them? What are the attributes of the person I desire to be? What makes me truly happy? What do I want? What do I need? What actions have I taken today that demonstrate Im defining my dream? Heres an unedited, uncensored, outrageous description of my dream: Heres a sketch of my dream: My ideal place to be in nature is: Heres a sketch of my ideal place to be in nature: Heres a description of how it feels to be in this place, as well as what I love about it: The one quality of this scene that I want to take with me wherever I go is: As I look at my dream home from the outside, I see: Inside my dream home, I see and feel: What objects energize the dreamer in me? As I picture myself expressing my unique talents and doing what I love the most I see: The unique contribution I want to make to the world is: Heres what I absolutely know right now that makes me sure my dream is a real possibility for me to realize: Heres a vision of my ideal place of work, the surroundings, and people I see: Heres a list of the rich and plentiful rewards my ideal work brings me: Heres a picture of my dream paycheck and the way I plan to apportion it: As I plan my ultimate business card, here are some words, phrases, colors, and designs I may want to incorporate: Heres a picture of my ultimate business card: The plaque that hangs on the wall where I work and tells what Im all about says: As I live my dream, the feeling states that I most treasure and want to fill my days with are: Which three of these feelings are the most important to me? My dream statement, in capital letters, is: My ideal relationship, the one I always longed for, I now have.