Drawing Dreams into Reality
After watching Patti Dobrowolski’s TEDxRanier presentation – Draw your Future I was motivated to draw my own future.
I had Mr. G take this picture outside in the rain – it’s a bit dark – i was in the covered area of the deck. I am still going to add some details to the page.
Patti talks about how visual we are and that creating a visual representation of our dreams helps make them more real. By drawing our “current state” and our “Desired new Reality” you have a roadmap for change. I’ve always been a huge advocate for developing templates, roadmaps or mind maps to better understand concepts and ideas so this is really up my alley. I hope you are inspired to create your own Drawing of your Desired Reality. Patti has a template you can download from her website if you like to start somewhere however it really is not difficult to draw a simple drawing such as this one – you don’t even have to be an artist to do it.
Fill your drawing with colour and emotion to make it more real. I have my drawing on the flipchart standing in the Living room. 
I’m sure Mr. G REALLY appreciates that.
I’m so excited about the process Patti lays out for us that I’ve ordered her book “Drawing Solutions: How visual goal setting will change your life”.
I know that these techniques and the techniques i learned from the Graphic Recording workshop i took last summer will help me in my work with Teens.
What are you doing to realize your dreams?
I love the balancing act of doing what you love and earning money – not easy, but you have a big smile as you balance them. You must have a good grasp of the difference between what you need and what you want.
What are your 5 things for today?
[...] comes about by simply checking out a lead from someone’s Facebook post. I was checking out Violette’s recent post about mapping and was intrigued by the image she drew. Had to check out the source of her [...]
I was so inspired by this, I had to blog about it too! Looking forward to trying this out on my own!! Thanks for the inspiration, Violette!
Oh – and I’m definitely ordering her book too!!
LOVE this! Can’t wait to do it… Love the letters, it’s just amazing! I blogged about you and it… hope you don’t mind… you just never know what people will do with what you put on fb!
This is great – I just made my own in my art journal. It’s amazing how dismal my current situation looks and how lovely my desired new reality is!! What a great exercise! Thanks for sharing
Shannon
http://www.musingsonrealities.blogspot.com
[...] you get the chance to watch the video i spoke about on my blog yesterday and did you create your own Vision of your future Dreams? I think there was quite a bit of [...]
I loved this and created my own in my journal straight after watching it! Thanks for blogging about it Violette! xxx