Conception to Delivery
February 19th, 2007 by Cristina Favreau
No!! This isn’t a birth announcement (I wish!).
I had a profound dream this weekend — well, profound for me. I’m sharing it to show what happens when you stop trying to ‘force’ an idea or solution. By remaining happy and positive, and by taking positive actions towards your intentions, you allow the law of attraction (or Intention-Manifestation as Steve Pavlina teaches it) to do it’s thing. Here’s an example of how it manifested with me.
My dream was this:
I was on the phone, coaching a client I absolutely adore. Just before ending our call, she said, “You know Cristina, when I think of you, the word ‘conception’ comes to mind.” Typical of my personality, I gave a smart-ass reply: “Thanks, but I have to do a little less conceiving and a little more delivering.“
I woke up laughing at my own joke (ouch)!! But then it hit me, and couldn’t go back to sleep — I was on to something, but couldn’t put my finger on it. Knowing it was useless trying to go back to sleep, I got out of bed (which is a big deal for me at this point), waddled to my office, scrounged for a pen and scribbled: ‘conceive -> deliver’.
Crawling back into bed, I knew my dream was more than just a reference to my pregnancy. So, I started asking myself “What do I have to deliver? What have I conceived? What am I waiting for? How is the law of attraction at work right now?” Then I understood! You see, I have a bunch of great ideas, tons of projects started, many semi-connections made, but I procrastinate on ‘delivering’ them… I was being taught to just GET THE STUFF OUT THERE ALREADY!
Then yet another product idea came to mind, and have been writing like crazy trying to bring it through the entire process: idea -> conception -> preparation -> delivery.
Are you like me, where, once you’ve come up with an idea, plan, project, etc…, you start it, but something happens to derail you — you get lost in the details, get distracted, get bored, tell yourself you’ve bitten off more than you can chew, feel like it’s taking too long, or tell yourself it’s not that great an idea anyways? That’s when I’ll put it aside to ‘work on later’ — which hardly ever happens because I’ll start on something new, repeating the same pattern.
What I’m trying to say is, my dream carried a deep meaning for me: It’s fine and good to conceive ideas and prepare them well… but eventually you’ve got to deliver, or risk losing what you’ve worked so hard at. I guess it came to me in a semi-conscious dream, because I’ve committed (intended) for 2007 to ‘deliver’ on projects I’ve put aside. I’m feeling the pressure of one of my projects finally coming to reality.
What have you conceived that’s just waiting to be delivered? Commit, right now, to completing it, start taking actions towards that commitment, and keep your eyes open for ways the universe to support you!
Cristina,
Great blog. Very inspiring. When you said you waddled to your office that made me smile because I thought about when I was pregnant 10 years ago and had to waddle instead of walk.
This is oh-so-true, Cristina! Off the top of my head, I think there are three kinds of people:
- People who get great ideas, but don’t want to deal with the details necessary to carrying them out;
- People who get great ideas, but get too caught up in the details to bring them to fruition;
- People who get great ideas, and make them happen!
Janet, based on your list, I’m transitioning from point 2 to point 3!!
Wow! Cristina,
This is amazing, this is the first blog I have ever visited and you hit me over the head with a cricket bat! Ouch!
That is exactly what I do. I have bookfulls of truly amazing concepts, programmes, etc. ideas that would be of enormous help to others but there they sit! I am just starting to take my Life Coaching seriously and I WILL use these programmes and ideas. I will also commit to getting up my new website this week (yikes!)and will go out and spread the word that is Coaching, Hallelulah Cristina, I believe!!!! Hey, you may have started a worldwide Mexican Wave of positivity and action! Thank you Cristina.
Keep up the dreaming!!!!(smile)
Joan from Australia xx
Joan, congrats on your commitment! Please let us know how setting up your website goes!!
Because I’m an idea person, what really helps me is to keep a list of all my ideas in one place (a notebook) and I work on just one at a time. That way I don’t forget any of my ideas, but I concentrate on completing just one at a time (this is difficult for me and I still find myself working on a few projects at a time… I’m a work in progress!!).
Thanks for sharing Joan, and we look forward to hearing about your progress!!
Cristina, thanks for the feedback. I too am an ideas person, hence the books I was talking about. By books I mean bigh thick spiralbound notebooks full of my ideas and programmes. I get an idea which is always THE big idea, work on a programme, article or whatever from that idea and then move on to the next Big idea,often without actually doing anything with the programme, article etc. I think this is an “inner game” issue (I am doing the coach2win course with Coachville where we talk about inner games)
Since reading your blog I have just about got my new website done and I have registered with a company that hire out teleconference space in order to do teleclasses. This is all so cool as I am usually the motivator, it is what I do. I actually used to run a fitness class and my business partner and I called ourselves the Motivators.
I don’t know what you have released in me Cristina but if you could bottle it you could retire a very rich lady. I don’t even believe I am ranting on like this, amazing! I will keep you posted.
Cheers, Joan
You sound schizophrenic to me, you might want to see a good psychiatrist about this
HAHA!! Yes, I guess that is a fair observation!
HAHA!! Yes, I guess that is a fair observation!