Believe in your dream more than your nightmares: Focus directs flow

This post is a bit longer but I felt it was needed. It's January 1, 2025 as I write this so people all over the world are waking up with intentions about how this year is going to be better than before. For many, the last few years have been a bit of a nightmare, so much so that this year, regardless of external circumstances, has people DETERMINED to make 2025 a great year somehow. They are tired of focusing on the nightmare, it's time to focus on the dream.

While scrolling on Instagram the other day I saw a reel with someone talking about believing in your dreams. This brought up a few important things for me. Some people are so overwhelmed by survival, so beat into a sense of learned helplessness from being told "No" by those around them, by society, by themselves at some point that the question becomes "What's a dream?"

People tend to believe in their nightmares because they look around them and that is the evidence their environment feeds them so that is what they see. When they believe in nightmares, obsess on them, become fully embodied in the belief of them and then guess what? They find evidence of that reality in everything they see. Trapped in the hopeless helpless cycle of "It never works out for me. No matter how hard I try."  A thought spiral ensues and the cycle continues. 

It became clear to me after reading that post that it was far easier to believe in the nightmare than the dream. 

I realized I needed a shift in mindset because I know that focus directs flow. What you think about creates a channel that your energy projects itself into. This energy path directs the outcomes of life. In order to shift my mindset I said to myself "Just see how far you can get today." regarding living my dream day and not my nightmare. How far can I get? And you know what? Since making that shift I've gotten pretty far. I've found out the things that I will need to get farther in the future. But I am on the journey, and I believe that I can get there.

That one small shift in thinking feels like a HUGE expansive change!

​Many times when believing in the nightmare people tell themselves NO before anyone else does. If we are calibrating our future trajectory from previous data, we will bring the nightmare with us into the future. What we focus our attention on becomes fact over time. What we believe we manifest. 

Thinking about a dream is a great start. 
Now connect with the dream plug into it with your full mind, body, and soul. Really believe the preferred experience is going to happen. This is the key to success. 
Do not allow yourself to entertain any thoughts to the contrary of your preferred outcome occurring. Like water moving downstream find the flow path. Whether that's over, under, or dripping through a boulder for years until it splits in two. Water always finds a way to flow. You too can always find a way to make your dream come true. 

It isn't just the thinking about it though. You can think "Oh yes I wish for this dream to come true." Yet, when you believe it you emotionally connect to it. Your spirit, your mind and your body all align to it. You have to be all in. Especially in the beginning when the project needs momentum. There is no room for anything but absolute obsession, passion, and focus. This is when the miracles happen. 

As the day goes by and the mantra is let's see how far I can get it becomes more manageable to live the dream. Here are some questions I ask myself but you can create some that work better for your particular situation: 

How far can I get towards...

making a tasty nutritious breakfast to give my body what it needs to have stamina for a productive day? 

moving in a way that is fun to me to keep my hormones, my body, my mind feeling uplifted and feeling pretty good? 

sitting for an hour to create and post quality content that my community will enjoy? 

connecting with people I love to maintain our relationships and enrich each other with the enjoyment of our interaction with one another? 

taking care of myself so that I am able to give my best to myself and those around me? 

You may want to journal about these questions over the next month or so. In the morning write about your intentions for the day and at the end of the day write about your results, what actually happened that day and if you were happy with those results or what you would do differently in the future. 

By focusing your attention on the dream your energy will flow in that direction, you'll see more opportunities and the Universe tends to get on board to offer you the opportunities to make your dreams come true because you are present and are being the person that that dream can embody.

It's a powerful practice I'd love to hear from you about how it works out for you. Live your dreams in 2025 and beyond!
​Enjoy your day.