As the end of the year approaches, you’re making a mad dash to finish shopping for gifts. There’s chatter all around you about plans for New Year’s Eve.
Soon you’ll also be thinking about those pesky New Year’s resolutions. You know, those little promises and goals that you make, but may never fulfill or meet. I think I’ve come up with a way for each of us to have better success.
The steps I intend to suggest center around your “Dream Keeper”.
What’s that?
Your Dream Keeper is that special place you keep your most precious (or sought after) hopes, dreams, goals, prayers, whatever. This could be your diary/journal, prayer box, vision board, even the well worn envelope you keep in the top bureau drawer. Whatever it is, and wherever it is, it’s your Dream Keeper.
STEP 1: REMOVE THE CLUTTER
Before we begin to really make our Dream Keepers work for us, we need to edit them. I know some of you may have had your Dream Keeper for years, and the idea of having to edit it doesn’t give you the warm and fuzzies. But it’s essential!
Positive energy has difficulty moving through clutter. That’s any clutter; your house, your car, your office, your Dream Keeper. So, we have to remove the clutter if we want positive energies to flow.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 and 6 state:
“(1) For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. . . .(6) a time to seek, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away. . .”
By removing items from your Dream Keeper that have been achieved, or are no longer needed or wanted by you, you make room for the positive energy to flow more easily around those dreams or goals yet to be realized.
Editing your Dream Keeper will also help to keep you focused on those things most important to you. I bet you’ll find things in your Dream Keeper that will make you wonder “What the heck did I want that for?” or “I must have been drunk when I put this out there!” Unless you remove these items, they will continue to draw energy from other items contained in the Dream Keeper.
Do you have negative items in your Dream Keeper? Sounds crazy doesn’t it? But the truths are (1) you’re only human; and (2) the universe is a living breathing entity that magnifies and reflects the energy released into it. You’ve had some emotional upheavals in your life, and you may have put something out into the universe that you really didn’t mean to. Now’s your chance to reel that in.
STEP 2: ADD, UPDATE, AND AMEND
Now that you’ve cleaned up your Dream Keeper and removed the clutter, it’s time to update it. Just as you’ve removed unwanted or unneeded items, you can add new things to the Dream Keeper.
Your Dream Keeper still contains your desire to take a cruise to the Bahamas. Well you did that last year, and had a blast. Now you’d like to cruise the Mediterranean! So you can remove the Bahamas cruise and replace it with the Mediterranean cruise.
You put in your Dream Keeper that you want a job paying more money. A rather generic request. Since then, you’ve identified which job/position in particular you want. So amend your Dream Keeper to reflect that.
Get the picture?!
STEP 3: ELEVATE
Ok! Your Dream Keeper has been edited; and you’ve added to it, updated and amended it. Now elevate it! Give life to it!
I’ve stated before that sometimes in order to receive your blessing God needs you to do something. He needs you to make use of some resource he’s put in your path.
I believe we can elevate our Dream Keepers by noting the steps we need and intend to take to receive the blessing of achieving a goal or making a dream come true.
For example: If the better paying job/position in your Dream Keeper requires you to have some additional leadership training, then make a note of it in the Dream Keeper. This way, you get to hold yourself accountable when you don’t do the things you know need to be done. You can give every excuse as to why you can’t go back to school right now. No money. Child care. But what excuse do you have for not taking advantage of the leadership training classes being sponsored by your employer; for free; on the premises; during your regular work hours. Heck, you can’t even say your supervisor wouldn’t approve your attending the classes because you never asked permission to attend.
While I’m encouraging you to include in your Dream Keeper the steps you think you need to take to fulfill your dreams, I must also warn you to think things over very carefully. Sometimes when we think we’re helping, we’re just getting in God’s way. Like when you bought that house you know you couldn’t afford. Hoping you’ll get to work a lot of overtime so that you could make your mortgage payments every month. That kind of decision was made by you getting ahead of God’s plan for you.
So think about your steps very carefully.
STEP 4: REVIEW
You don’t have to wait till the end of the year to review the items contained in your Dream Keeper. In fact, you should make regular reviews of the Dream Keeper.
Clear as much clutter out as you can, as fast as you can.
Keep the energy flowing! Review the steps you may need to take for each Dream Keeper item. This will allow you to see the progress you’ve made, or whether you’ve stalled.
So for each prayer, each dream, each set goal, what are you prepared to do to get there? God needs to know you’re ready to receive your blessing. That you’re willing to work for it! Ready to EARN it!!
2012 was good for you. 2013 will be even better!!
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