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/tAIXMaO9Hhw

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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]

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