Shape Your Dreams
For many of us, 2020 has been a year most of us would like to forget. Personally, this year was supposed to be the year that I got out more. I was going to meet new people, and begin dating for the first time in almost two decades. This was going to be the year I crossed off one more dream; falling in love. That… →
A broken dream is not an indictment against you. It is not the end of your skills. It is simply part of the process.
The sweat drips down, falling off my nose. It’s not supposed to be this hot in the wintertime. My lungs are on fire. My legs are like jelly. It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. It wasn’t supposed to be easy either. Before me is the final hill, much larger than the last time I hiked this trail almost a year ago. It couldn’t have… →
This is your year. The year you turn that tiny spark of a dream into a raging fire. The year you chase after your dreams without looking back.
One more. Just one more rep. One more minute. One more sketch. We press against the constraints of our goals, seeking to improve, to go further. If there is anything that is constant in our lives it is that we know how to measure it, even if it on a subconscious level. One more day, one more year. We have devised a way to divide… →
We are back! That’s right, with the start of a new year comes new posts and new ideas from the Dream Anvil! My long hiatus from the site was a side effect of preparing for and then going through my surgery and recovery. In short, everything went smoothly! Last year was a huge, crazy, tumultuous, and amazing experience and I cannot wait to tell you… →
The flame dances and twirls. Beautiful in its grace and power, it flows through the psyche melding ideas and desires together. The first instinct is to reach out and caress the flame, but its touch might burn. It might be too much for you, or too hard to accomplish. It seems impossible. Still, it dances, and it calls. Daring the dreamer to chase after it.… →
It starts as something small, insignificant. It billows and sways on the breeze, tumbling towards its destination. Its touch smolders and burns, but it will not stay in one place for very long. It has a place where it belongs, somewhere out there in that great wide world, a place where it can be free. When it finally lands, when it finally finds a home… →
It’s February and by now you are probably realizing that dreams are hard. It has been said that most of the goals set on New Year’s will be abandoned in six weeks. We get caught up in the moment and set ambitious goals, and by the end of January well, we wonder why we are doing this? Why do we set goals and chase dreams?… →
I was listening to podcasts at work on Tuesday. It was a fairly typical day; emails needed answering; phone calls required my attention; TPS reports needed doing. Then like a bolt lightning, the host of the show I was listening too utterly shattered my concentration. I scrubbed the play head back. What did she just say? It was a quote from George Addair “Everything you’ve… →