On Monday, I mentioned in the post, 4 Reasons Why Dreams Matter in Your Life, that self-esteem and confidence were essential ingredients to dreaming. I want to talk about those characteristics today and then a few more on Friday. To have the most success when we begin dreaming, it helps if we understand some of the aspects of a dreamer. When we can fit more easily into the mold of someone who dreams, it is much easier to discover the dreams we have within ourselves.

I know for many of us, dreaming may be new, and even if it isn’t new, the scale we will be talking about might be. One of the exercises I have in dreaming starts with making a list of 100 dreams. That’s a lot, and frankly, it’s a lot of work to come up with, but we’ll get to that later. For today, I want us to talk about what the point is. I know we covered this a bit with the story from The Dream Giver that I shared on Friday, but I want to go deeper and hammer out why we should care.

I had a different post planned for today, where I wrote about some activities and methods to help get the ball rolling on discovering our dreams. But I realized that I was skipping ahead again. I’m sure this will happen often, and hopefully, my website team doesn’t get too annoyed with me for switching out my posts. While it will be fun to work on discovering our dreams, I have to give a disclaimer before I help anybody find their dream. It would be negligent of me not to warn you that dreaming is DANGEROUS.

As I was preparing to launch this blog, I aimed to have a month's worth of pieces ready to post. I figured this would make the launch less stressful when I'm not already struggling with what to write next week. It turns out this is harder than I thought it would be, and you already know that I respond better to impending deadlines based on what I shared in my April Fools’ Day post. What happened is..

My name is Sarah Hartley, and before I go any deeper into creating this blog, I feel it is important for you to know who I am and why I am here. I know this website has an about me page, but this is the beginning of my journey.

Today is an exciting and nerve-wracking day for me. After months of planning, my website is finally live and my writing will be out there for the world to see. There is no turning back; after all, the internet is forever. I am launching this site with a pit in my stomach, but I am not allowing the fear to get me again. Today, I persevered. You know this because you can read it right now.