Make your dream come true in 1 day. Even if you stay at homе*
(If you cannot get outside, you always can get outside the box)
«The majority of people have a dream, which can be accomplished within a week. But they make it into the dream of whole life» (an unkown author)
How many wishes and dreams are getting covered with thick layer of dust in the backyard of your heart? As for me – I have lots of them, forgotten and forsaken. A mountain of wishes, to be honest.
So, once (although I didn’t know then, WHAT it will all turn into), my friend Assel declared that she starts a 30-days challenge «Say YES to the NEW things».
The rules were simple: to try something absolutely new every single day during this period, or try doing usual things in an unusual way. By the end of the day we were publishing the report about our experiences.
I just took my wishes which had been put away long time ago, forgotten and forlorn, and put them into the «Accomplishing machine» (this is how I call the principle of our Challenge functioning). To put into the Accomplishing machine means to declare your intention to try and manage something within one day, and then, willy-nilly, everything goes towards the set goal (not without your active participation, of course).
And every day my old patterns and beliefs about what I can and what I can not do – were thrown up in the air, broken and torn.
Clouds of dust. The old construction of beliefs was getting ruined.
And then this dust was washed away with the rocking waves of the New life, coming into my reality in more and more interesting ways.
Are you craving for real happiness? The recipe for it is simple, and it is accomplished in such a project.
Even from the point of view of hormones of happiness, there is a complete cocktail:
– joyful anticipation of something new every day – dopamine;
– fulfillment of the plan, sometimes at the limit of your possibilities (the flow) – dopamine;
– feeling like a winner in any case – testosterone;
– recognition of this victory, support of the group – serotonin and oxytocin.
As a result, you get the fabulous sensation: «I can do whatever I want. It may take more than one day to do something, but thank God I can still do a lot!»
Yes, it will take more than one day to reach a goal, requiring regular actions during longer period (getting rich, buying a house for a million dollars, getting in shape or building ideal relationships). Then, the formula will be a bit different: 1 day +1 day +1 day + … = result. The question is simply what these days are filled with: actions towards the goal or inaction? Are they filled with reeadiness to take lessons and move on, or with apathy?
The main trophy that you receive by fulfilling your long-standing one-step dreams (to try, to learn, to launch a project – everything what requires just one decisive step) is the solid belief that you can do more than you always thought about yourself.
* for historical reference: the book was created at the time of universal self-isolation, which was established to prevent the spread of coronavirus).