What's On My Mind
“What does it all mean?!”
These past few days I’ve been having weird dreams.
On one of them, I was fired at work for doing something really bad that I deserved to be sent to prison for it.
The other dream involved being a sidekick to some dude with hyper-awareness and have the ability to call and swim with dolphins. He (apparently) accidentally acquired that skill from the club. Yep, stuff that makes you go “wtf?”.
Back in [Week 7 of 2019], I talked about how I interpret dreams. This time, I’m gonna expand on that topic a little bit:
Whenever I get those kinds of dreams, the ones that make you really engaged, I typically write whatever I remember in my journal.
What do I write? The answers to these questions:
- What do I remember feeling?
- Who were the characters?
- Where was I?
- What is the main plot of the dream?
No, I don’t write down every detail. I (like everyone else) only remember 20% of the dream. Most times you forget but the feeling stays.
Our subconscious uses dreams to communicate something to us. Any detail you remember may it be the characters and places you see are just representations so I wouldn’t take them too literally.
For example, I remember begging the CEO of the company I work for to forgive me.
But guess what, in real life, I don’t give a flying f* about our CEO. However, in my dream, he seems to be someone I had to cater to avoid losing “something” (I don’t know what that something is). The CEO represents a part of myself that I don’t care about and yet it’s important enough that I had to ask for forgiveness.
Another example is how this guy accidentally got his superpower from a nightclub. I remember wanting that superpower but everyone else in the club avoided it like a plague (A la coronavirus). So that seemed weird to me (why wouldn’t you want to have a superpower?).
Nightclub. Well, I’m not a big fan of clubs but it was something I had to experience.
To put things together. That one thing I want is found somewhere where I don’t want to be. Meaning, it’s found in places, events, or situations I find uncomfortable.
And that totally makes sense, we naturally wanted to avoid the uncomfortable even though it is where personal growth happens.
What about you? How do you interpret your dreams? Do you take them too literally? Or do you treat them as a warning to the future…like an ancient prophet in the old days?
The future is a blank canvas – paint something worth remembering 😉
A Year Ago This Week
- No one wants to be the back-up plan.
- Passing an exam is not a good measurement of understanding.
[read here]
Weekly Update
Personal Projects
Bounced off ideas with a friend about “financial independence”.
I’m glad to hear there are others in my network who intend to find financial freedom.
Another friend wants to start making money on the side…online.
The other wants to find a way to promote his artwork. Possibly do a collab project together.
It’s a relief to know I’m not the only one who wants to do something beyond what I’m already doing.
It’s not an easy path to take but the lessons you learn along the way make it worth it.
As a result, I signed up for the free online course on financial independence [link here] to gauge how much I already know.
I always sign up for free courses, mostly because I wanted to gather an idea of how they educate others as opposed to the content of the course.
And because of that other friend who got me talking about promoting your artwork and from listening to this [webinar], and because I wanted one of their free resources, I signed up for The Futur’s newsletter.
Lots of free stuff out there during this pandemic. I also signed up on [how to write a non-fiction book].
All that while trying to focus on understanding the insurance I wanted to sell.
Lotsa stuff happening.
Routine
I started doing squats and push-ups at 5 AM to get the routine started.
Monday was good. Tuesday wasn’t good (I had to skip due to sore chest) but I ran for 15-mins. Wednesday was good (squats, push-ups, and ran for 15-mins). Thursday was ok. Friday was poor (didn’t work out because I was tired AF…had to get up super early due to that CEO nightmare).
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I made Lexi cry because she was shocked to see her dad bald.
I’m too scared to get a haircut at the salon. Not yet. Not for a while. Maybe I’ll reconsider next month.
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Added veggies to my daily diet by making a smoothie out of it.
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Drank 2 cups of coffee on Thursday (because I was feeling productive and curious as to how it would affect me).
Well, things didn’t end well. I ended up taking a nap at 4 PM because I couldn’t handle the caffeine-crash.
Then, just before bedtime, I found myself brainstorming for ideas for my blog. My brain was active that it made it painfully hard to relax.
That said, I will reconsider going for a second cup unless it’s absolutely needed.
To curve my craving, I bought another box of decaf and caffeine-free tea.
Finance
We finally got all the stuff out of the rented storage. So that gives us “more savings”, meaning, more money to pay off our debts.
No, not exactly. Reduced hours at work means reduced pay. So really, they equal itself out. Perhaps even less…
These days, you have to be creative at finding ways to cut costs.
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