Lesson 17 - Is Your Head In The Clouds?
Welcome to Lesson 17, what seems to be the quintessential Lesson towards applying Simpleology to your everyday life. Here, Simpleology walks you through the various Simpleology utilities that will help you implement Simpleology into your day.
I’m not going to go through the utilities again, Simpleology already explained them much better than I could. I just wanted to touch on something that I found really interesting.
Up until now, Simpleology has talked about finding goals, aiming for targets and getting past obstacles. Simpleology has defined obstacles as anything that gets in the way of your goals, something physical, something distracting.
One of the utilities that Simpleology tells us to use in our Daily Praxis is the Dream Catcher.
The Dream Catcher is an interesting utility. It asks us to write our dreams down so they don’t become distractions.
What’s noticeable here is that very subtly, Simpleology is asking us for differentiate between goals and dreams. Goals are to be strived for. They should be fought for and sweated out. They are the focus of our lives and should be in our line of vision throughout all parts of our day.
Dreams on the other hand are wasteful and nothing more than distractions. They are unachievable and need to be placed in a separate container left under your bed until they can be dusted off, flushed out and turned into goals.
Dreams are powerful psychological triggers. They can drive us and push us uphill. Dreams can motivate us in ways that fear just can’t.
Dreams have a very powerful upside to them, but the downside can be just as bad as the upside is good. Dreams can also make us lazy and compliant. They can make us inactive and the very nature of dreams is that they make sit around with our heads in the clouds instead of working towards our goals.
This is why Simpleology created the Dream Catcher utility. With this tool, we can decide what is a goal and what is nothing more than dream.