When You Manifest Out Past Your Headlights!

I asked, and received SO fast that it left me spinning. Here’s how it all went down plus what your big dream may be missing.

A little over a year ago, my niece and I set out to write a picture book. What started out as a little idea became a big dream. 

We were weeks away from self-publishing when my husband asked me a question that changed the game: “What’s the dream behind the dream?”

My first thought was to analyze and assess to develop a thoughtful response. I paused and decided to allow my deeper wisdom to respond.

A few minutes later, the idea of impacting a million lives emerged. That same day, I got committed to it. That meant the idea went from being a matter of IF to a matter of WHEN.

It also meant I was unattached (which is different from detached) from HOW it would occur or even that it would occur. That’s the paradox of creating from commitment.

I wrote a post about the Singularity of Commitment a few publications ago. I have received positive feedback; you can read it in my archives.

My former coach, Steve Hardison, shared with me once that commitment is like a black hole in space. It can bend space and time.

I asked. And received. Fast. What happened in the weeks that followed was quite surreal.

First, I started talking to others about my commitment…that’s where the rubber meets the road. That’s how we get on the field to play the creating from commitment game.

Within the first three conversations, I connected with someone I already knew, Patti Hall. In less than two weeks, this beautiful soul connected me to a handful of people who were the exact players I needed to make this newly formed dream a reality.

I had serious power plays on traditional publishing and another if I wanted to go self-publishing. The speed with which this all became real stunned me a bit, despite being a student of creating from commitment for years.

It was like I had planted a seed in my garden, expecting gradual growth, and awoke the next morning to find a fully blossomed, towering tree.

Photo cred: Tim Foster (Unsplash)

Despite realizing all this, I needed to pause, slow down, and be intentional about my next step. This is the art of dancing with our goal and soul lines.

I asked myself: “Who would this book impact? Why should anyone care about the book we wrote? And most importantly, how would the book and its message improve life for those who read it?”

I didn’t have those answers yet. But I knew I was asking the right questions.

So I pulled the plug on the power plays. I told Patti I needed to go inward (because sometimes slowing down is the best way to speed up).

I have been quietly building and putting together the needed pieces to give this dream the attention it deserves.

When we have a big dream, we often think we need to run and race, which is counterproductive. I am still in action and building, I am, however, not attached to the speed or perception others may have.

This dream may represent the next 10-20 years of my life, and I treat it with a commensurate degree of intentionality.

I am committed to the dream, not the perception of the dream.

And the same may go for you. That dream you hold that you’ve held for years is there for a reason. Dreams and desires don’t drop into our hearts and minds by accident.

What if you stopped judging the dream and instead became committed to it and began to see what it has to show you? How does it want to shape you?

Write about it, share it with others. Allow your dream to be seen and heard. Pour love into it.

See you in the next publication, I am excited to share what’s next on this journey. Thanks for being a part of it.

Goodbye for now….Luisa and Dinah.

PS: Here’s Dinah sharing the dream behind the dream.

If a person in your life is a big dreamer, please consider sharing this publication with them.

“Dreams are not just whispers of the heart. They are echoes of the future.”