Write, Collage & Play Your Way to the Life of Your Dreams

Sorted under arts, books on February 3, 2009

As we take our first few steps into adulthood we are often told that now is the time to “grow up.” To get serious about our futures, get a stable job that we are most likely going to hate in a few months yet still find ourselves there after 20 years, and make sure we can support ourselves and the family we’re supposed to start as soon as possible with whatever person who is willing to put a ring on our fingers. Before you know it, we’ve been living the “grown up” life for decades and forgot all about those dreams we had for our lives while we were growing up.

Life is fast-paced. Life is much like going 120mph in a 35mph zone. It waits for no one and if we don’t keep up, life is pounce all over us without a second thought. As an adult who is determined to live the life I’ve always dreamed of for myself, I look at my family and the jobs that they have and I wonder about the lives they wanted for themselves before adulthood happened to them. So few of us really get to do what we want with our lives and I find that so unfortunate that I often find myself urging the people close to me to do what they really want for themselves; to go after their true passions instead of just living a life that gets them by and that is exactly what the author of the Permission to Dream journal, Lisa Hammond, has done.

The Permission to Dream journal is all about giving yourself the permission to go back in time and think about the dreams you had when you were younger; before life got in the way. It is a spectacular journal that allows you to write, collage, play and get back in touch with the arts and crafts child, teenager and/or young adult in us and really fulfill our dreams. If you knew that you wouldn’t–couldn’t–fail, what would you do with your life? Would you go back to school? Start your own business? Become a dancer or a veterinarian or an archaeologist? We are the only ones with full control over our own lives and while some of us may forget that at times, the Permission to Dream journal reminds us.

The Permission to Dream journal is a one of a kind journal with sections like ‘Remember Your Dreams,’ ‘Building Your Dreams,’ and ‘Living Your Dreams.’ Each section begins with a wish list and a prompt that will get your in the mindset to really let your dreams take off. It brings you from simply thinking about your dreams and how you want to live your life and into thinking about what it would take to accomplish it. Not only is the sky the limit in this journal, but it will get you thinking in terms of doing and no longer just wishing.



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  • Nice! I like the ideas of "dream doodling" and creative collaging. I, myself, really love to make collages. The overall idea is to PLAY! I love it! You know, many of us who are child abuse survivors never had permission to really play when we were kids, so the idea of play as adults is really a stretch. Good stuff! Thanks!
  • For absolute sure I didn't enjoy being a teen/young adult enough - I couldn't wait to be older! Now I wish I could go back and really live it. So...I'm building a time machine! LOL!

    I truly believe there is no such thing as being too old for anything. Well, almost anything.
  • That's the place I'm about to step into, too - I've got two years of my degree left, a boyfriend whom I'm pretty sure I want to keep, and a research placement for the summer. I'm trying to lay the foundations for what I want to do early, so that it's harder for other people to tell me that I need to 'temporarily' get a shop job.
  • Thanl you very much for this blog, really this is very helpful to all of the ages,how we want to live a life that depend on us, and whatever dreams we have, try to make effort and fulfill them and your dreams come true.
  • Heh, when you are yong you want to become adult very fast, but when you became adult - you want to stop time, to stay yong as much as u can :((
  • I often feel like I grew up to fast. A child of my own and a step child, sometime I feel life somehow got away from me.
    Love the dream journal idea
  • Very timely book review, because this:

    "As we take our first few steps into adulthood we are often told that now is the time to “grow up.” To get serious about our futures, get a stable job that we are most likely going to hate in a few months "

    is exactly where I am in my life right now
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