In This Issue
Many extraordinary gains in business, from inventions to dazzling marketing plans, came in the night from dreams. Tapping the power of this underutilized tool is the focus of the lead article. Read also about how to improve your career by becoming a workplace warrior, deploying your energy, skills, and power for maximum effect. To reply to this newsletter, please click here.
Using Dreams to Improve Your Business
Do you ever wish you had a Magic Eight-Ball to give you accurate guidance on career decisions? You may be surprised to know you already have one: your dreams. Most of us know that a good night's sleep decreases stress, increases memory recall, and improves overall functioning. Less well-known is that our nightly dreams also work to keep our psyches healthy and help us access our full potential. Full story here.
Becoming a Workplace Warrior
Another day, another deadline. You gulp caffeine and forge ahead, like the steadfast worker you are. A good soldier never gives up the fight, right? Only if you view work as a battleground. There's a decisive difference between soldiering on, gamely shouldering the workload you're assigned, and becoming a workplace warrior. Soldiers take orders; warriors take responsibility. Read more here.
The following questions are designed to broaden perspectives, to open vistas, to widen the lens. There is no one right way to approach them. You can journal about them, talk to friends, create art... View questions here.
Relevant Reading
The Accidental Entrepreneur: 50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Business, by Susan Urquhart-Brown
Dreamwork: Techniques for Discovering the Creative Power in Dreams, by Jeremy Taylor
How'd You Score That Gig? A Guide to the Coolest Jobs -- and How to Get Them, by Alexandra Levit
Today's Quote
"There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow."
~Victor Hugo, author (1802-1885)
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