The other day I was scrolling on my phone when an alert popped up, reminding me to daydream. My husband saw it and was so excited.
“You schedule time to daydream? He asked. “That’s great!”
“Yes,” I said. “The only problem is that I suck at it.”
My husband is an fantastic daydreamer. If daydreaming were a job, he’d be the CEO of Day Dreamers, Inc. He is constantly daydreaming, no matter how grand or big or outlandish the dream is.
These are adventures we’ve enjoyed because of my husband’s unrelenting daydreaming: Chased the northern lights in Norway. Spent our 10th anniversary in the Maldives. Skied from Switzerland into Italy to enjoy a leisurely Italian lunch. Sipped champagne in Champagne. Watched the 2017 total eclipse in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
It’s all because he dreamed of these adventures, believed they could happen, and he made it so.
Daydreaming has never come naturally to me. I grew up with parents who were firmly rooted in reality, and my default mode is always, we can’t. My husband’s default is always, how can we?
This rooted-in-reality mindset can make the #Woo challenging. So many teaches of the #Woo preach the virtues of daydreaming. It raises your vibe! It makes your dreams feel like reality! It helps you stay on the path to achieving your goals!
So, why do I shrug it off? Why do I ignore my 4 pm reminder day in and day out?
Because I tell myself I’m too busy, I’m in the middle of something, or I’ll do it later. Because I have trouble translating my goals into a vivid, uplifting, lifelike daydream. And because I’m worried that at the end of the day I’ll fail and I’ll never reach my dreams.
Then I remember my husband. If it weren’t for him, I would have never seen the power of real daydreaming, or understood how switching my mindset from “we can’t” to “how can we?” absolutely changes everything.
Perhaps he is my reminder from the #Woo that there really is power in daydreaming and that it’s time to get serious and stop swiping left on my daily daydreaming alert.