How to DREAM Like Walt Disney to Set Your 2024 New Years Resolutions
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Walt Disney was a quintessential dreamer. He once said, “I resent the limitations of my imagination”. He spent his whole life pushing his mind to come up with innovative ideas, playing with possibility.
Several practices from his life and work seem to have supported his ability to dream big. I’ve come up with the “How to DREAM like Walt Disney” process based on these practices. I think we can all bring more of our unique magic, that which empowers and enables us, into our lives by using the DREAM practices to set any goal especially something as big as our 2024 New Year’s Resolutions! This is because we need our magic to dream past what’s possible AND reaching for something new in our lives requires more of our unique magic to meet the challenge of creating it.
Here’s a look at each of the practices complete with online journal forms to get you working on your 2024 New Year’s Resolution!
P.S. I have found that using these steps to set any dream or goal, even what I want my morning to look like, produces a magic-filled journey and outcome.
How to DREAM like Walt Disney
D: Dare to Delight Yourself
Say what you will about Walt Disney (ok, only nice things around here ;) ) the man knew how to come up with boundary-pushing ideas and then create them. This email series takes inspiration from some of his signature practices of dreaming big so that you can apply them to setting a 2024 New Year’s Resolution that pushes the boundaries of what you think is possible in your life.
Fairy Godmother Coaching exists to help you feel more of your unique magic in your everyday life. The process of DREAMing beyond your limits and creating that dream will have your every day bursting at the seams with enchantment, fairy’s honor!
First up, D: Dare to Delight Yourself!
You know you are engaging with a Disney product or service if it leaves you full of surprise and delight. It’s part of why people love their Disney experiences so much. Walt Disney knew that these emotions were powerful. Part of his legacy…
Read more about how to Dare to Delight Yourself in 2024 here.
R: Remember Your Magic
This is so exciting… this is EVERYTHING that Fairy Godmother Coaching is all about: supporting your journey discovering and using your unique magic to enchant your everyday life. Let’s do this thing!
Practice two of the “How to DREAM like Walt Disney” process is to R: Remember Your Magic.
To have a New Year’s Resolution that brings more of your unique magic into your everyday life, it helps to dream up that resolution from that magic!
Ok, first thing first. You have unique magic. Every one of the almost eight billion of us on the planet does.
The word “magic” derives from…
Read more about Remembering Your Magic in 2024 here.
E: Embrace Failure
Did you know that Walt Disney failed to secure funding for Disneyland 300 TIMES before someone said yes? 300 TIMES! This continues to blow my mind.
The truth is that for anyone I’ve ever learned of who has gone after creating something magical, failure has been a part of that journey.
The infinitely wise Master Life Coach, Brooke Castillo, puts it like this: “If it takes you thirteen hours to learn to ride a unicycle, each hour up until that last moment is a failure. It’s the only way to success!”
Unfortunately, for many of us, just knowing we may fail at something is enough to make us fail ahead of time: not even try.
How crazy is that?! Consider that yes, you may fail, at the end of 2024 you may not have created exactly what you dreamed up, but at least you will have learned something, and…
Read more about Embracing Failure in 2024 here.
A: Ask “What if?”
Walt Disney is famous for pushing not only himself to innovate to offer the world his magic but ALSO for pushing those around him to create things at the edges of their and our collective imaginations.
How did he do it?
Partially by continuing to ask himself and those around him, “What if…?”
“What if Mickey’s expression looked like this?”
“What if we could do more with animation?”
“What if we had a working train going around Disneyland?”
“What if…
Read more about Asking “What if?”in 2024 here.
M: Maximize Your Gift
Research shows that when you focus on what you can give to others, especially those you love, you can access different parts of your brain and therefore be more creative and innovative.
Walt Disney was always considering how he could use his magic to inspire and create hope and magic for his viewers and guests. It was always about creating experiences for others.
For this final practice in the “How to DREAM like Walt Disney” process to set your 2024 New Year’s Resolution, use the lens of giving to try to push what you think is possible…
Read more about Maximizing Your Gift in 2024 here.
Bonus #1: SEtting Your 2024 Resoutions
This week is about taking all your big, possibility-pushing ideas, and bringing them together to set a measurable and clear dream for 2024.
In this week’s video, I take you through a visualization of December 31, 2024, so that you can decide how your life will be different when you achieve your dream…
Read more about Setting Your DREAM for 2024 here.
Bonus #2: Doing Your 2024 DREAM
Walt Disney may have once said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
This week is all about offering you a way forward, a way of doing your dream!
Follow along with this week’s video to get all of the steps for doing your DREAM in 2024!
Here’s a recap:
1. Create an impossible journal, this journal will be for you to write down any time you are starting to feel negative…
Read more about Doing Your DREAM in 2024 here.
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As I’ve been sharing, the American Society of Training and Development found that having an accountability partner gives you a 65% chance of completing a goal and that adding specific accountability appointments increases your chance of success by up to 95%?!
So, let’s add some specific accountability appointments shall we?!
Join my FREE community for DREAMers here which includes
- New content every month to support creating your big dream starting in 2024.
- Discounts on coaching.
- Monthly group coaching and DREAM progress-sharing calls.
- Opportunities to connect with others DREAMing like Walt Disney!
Thank you from the bottom of my magical heart for following along with me! It has been an honor to work with you. I can’t wait to see what you create in 2024!
