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After dreaming, planning and doing (exploring), you have either turned your dream into a reality or failed. Either way now is the time to reevaluate the lessons learned. The first and most important lesson is that even if you “failed,” you have still succeeded in creating a new reality. It is just not the reality you intended. So, now is the time to learn from our mistakes.
Did you know that given one problem, there are 16 different possibilities of who or what to blame? I didn't, and it has changed how I view life. I outline a process to identify a problem. (It's more fun to blame things.) But, you can use it as a creative process to identify a new area of opportunity. Also download the free PDF worksheet.
If you've read Falling Uphill, you know that Dennis accompanied me halfway around the world on a bicycle. Many of you have wondered what happened to Dennis and if he found what he was looking for when he returned home. I'm honored that for the 25th anniversary of my website — a website Dennis helped build — he has written this wonderful story complete with important life lessons.
This is the original version of my formula for turning dreams into reality. As you can see, I've been refining it for many years. I give a brief explanation of the steps, and the evolution of my "magical" formula.