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What is your big, audacious dream for yourself?

Started by Daniel Gibbons · 9 months ago

Grand or simple, outlandish or most definitely reasonable, everyone has a dream in their heart. Everyone.

Carrie says: To have our message of authenticity and being true to you heard around the world. In schools, workshops, books, online, everywhere. To be a patron to artists and ... Continue reading »

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  • Joanne

    11 months ago

    To earn my living through writing novels. To have a house by the sea, with a porch where I can sit and watch the sun go down.
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  • Natasha

    11 months ago

    To contribute to a medical discovery that saves lives.
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  • Guylaine

    11 months ago

    To be inspirational (with my way of beeing and my accomplishments) to my two gifted and very different children and to all those I love around me... so that they begin to truly believe that nothing is impossible and that it is never too late to accomplish your dreams.
    To semi-retire by running my own little secluded sea-front guest-house where I can also paint, write and entertain beautiful minds and souls...
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  • Tara

    11 months ago

    As a racehorse trainer, I dream of a champion horse to train. It's great training winners, but I'm talking about a horse that everyone knows the name of, even people who don't follow racing. You'll get goosebumps watching him (or her), and appreciate what a remarkable athlete with so much heart that you've had the fortune to witness. My beautiful girls would be so proud
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  • Debbie R

    11 months ago

    To make it possible for my husband to retire within 5 years - and to spend the rest of our lives "working" together!
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  • Julia

    11 months ago

    I've always wanted a talk show! As a young girl, I would pretend that the Tickle deodorant bottle was my microphone.... I interviewed my siblings and friends on the living room couch. I liked Dick Cavitt, Michael Douglas, Phil Donahue and later, of course, Oprah. If I had my own gig, it would be a little Rachel Ray, a little Oprah and a little Meredith Vieira. I am ready for my close up!
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  • Julia

    11 months ago

    When you get that house by the sea, may I come over and join you for coffee?! Your dream sounds lovely.
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  • don

    11 months ago

    To be humble and curious always and to see where that takes me.
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  • Veronica

    11 months ago

    Love this dream! My big audacious dream for myself is to have my body sing with health and possibility. I've been so sick over the past year and thank God, I'm coming back from it all. But if I dream big, I dream of a body that runs and spins, boxes, does handstands, cycles and rests blissfully in sivasana.
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  • Suzie Sunshine

    11 months ago

    Oh my - I think that I'm living my big, audacious dream. I retired from 33 years of teaching in the Inner City and I am now blissfully sitting by the lakeside, watching the sunsets and enjoying my children, husband and friends. I now have the gift of time to do what I want, when I want. I have taken up bridge, needlepoint and golf. It doesn't get any better than this. Dreams do come true!!!!
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  • Suzie Sunshine

    11 months ago

    I am a 14 year breast cancer survivor. I dream that you will be healthy again soon. Miracles do happen. Be good to yourself!
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  • Elizabeth

    11 months ago

    My big dream is to be famous for making the world's best cookies. And then to retire an write a book that touches a few souls. My wish every day is for good health and happiness, with which, no dream is too big or audacious.
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  • Joannie

    11 months ago

    Same dream - different genre. Creative Non-Fiction.
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  • Joannie

    11 months ago

    My big audacious dream? To be healthy. To be published several times in Creative Non-Fiction. To live by the sea, actually on the Bay of Fundy, in a red frame house with a huge fireplace and hearth in its centre. Windows all around. The music I love playing on a gorgeous stereo system. A huge kitchen with copper pots hanging from a rack above a pine table in its centre. A garden filled with trees, shrubs, herbs that will grow by the salt water.

    But most of all the man I adore, strong and healthy, in one of the rooms working on the computer he so loves.
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  • L'Tanya

    11 months ago

    I dream of traveling the world, putting together a documentary on culture and craft. It would air on the Discovery Channel and have an accompanying DVD, website, and lecture/show. I dream of learning Portuguese and buying a summer home in Portugal, sitting in a cafe sipping on cafe con leche.

    I've just got to say that I'm a huge dreamer. But when I read this question, I thought of Nicole Kidman's character in "The Interpreter" when she says "We don't name the dead." Somehow I felt like we don't name out dreams -- not out loud.

    So part of the boldness of dreaming for me is allowing myself to say what my dreams are. Thanks for askin.
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  • Gillian

    11 months ago

    To take photographs all around the world and have an exhibit.
    To have a house by the ocean and surf every day!
    To winner an Oscar and get interviewed by Oprah.
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  • Traci

    11 months ago

    Same dream - different setting. Dividing time between Paris, Tuscany, and New York. (Why settle?)

    BTW, I FINALLY discovered my Style Statement last night. I'm so excited! Constructive Nostalgic.
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  • Traci

    11 months ago

    That's such an exciting dream! I love it!
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  • Cecile

    11 months ago

    There is a very old Arabian adage I read when I ws 13, I am now 63. It goes like this: "Every man should dream to plant a tree, to have a child to write a book." I have done the first two. Im yet to fulfill the third. You think this is easy....well none of the above are that easy... True tests of lagacy and honor the world. Nowadays, if I were to rewrite the adage I would add to clean our environment, the carbon footprint and leave this worls a better place for the very child we had, the very tree we planted and write a book as an inspiration to others. Have a great Friday, you all!! Cécile
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  • Chantal

    11 months ago

    I dream of painting as a way of life - to create freedom thru expression, living in Bali, and embodying the ancient teachings of many, many different cultures and sharing them with the world.
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  • Veronica

    11 months ago

    Thank you, Suzie Sunshine! You be good to you, as well.
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  • lynn

    11 months ago

    My BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goad) is to help start an educational farm in our small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. Kids today need so much more than sitting in desks to get a full education. It will also provide our surrounding area with organic produce and animal products which is in high demand these days. The students will be a part of every aspect of the operation and work with adult mentors who will probably learn more than the kids!
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  • Colette

    11 months ago

    Me too! So would that be Gulf Coast, Californiea coast or the Riviera?
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  • Colette

    11 months ago

    Wow, I hear the waves crashing and smell the salt water mixed with mint! You could join our writers club we seem to have going!
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  • weezie

    11 months ago

    1) To be a singer in a rock-n-roll band
    2) To be such a renowned hostess that Oprah is dying for an invitation to one of my dinner parties
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  • Krystl

    11 months ago

    i've wanted to write fiction for a long time - i haven't paid any attention to that dream in a while. another dream that is just beginning to take shape is to try doing event photography - parties, weddings... neither of those things are crazy dreams, though - both are totally achievable. i guess the big audacious dream would be to create a work of art, either as a writer or photographer.
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  • Colette

    11 months ago

    Not getting on until later in the day is affording me the pleasure of reading and commenting on others first before I do my own blogging. I am amazed at how many of us desire to write novels, and live by the sea! Do you think there is a connection? My beach is private and I can run or ride my horse on a long sandy stretch of land cupping the clear aqua surf foaming at it's edge. Seagulls hover above announcing my presence with their shrill cry. My beach house is white washed, clapboard looking siding, wrapped in a Victorian style lania with more furniture on the outside than on the inside. It's my get away where the sand, the sun, the salty ocean and all it's life wash away the impurities of city life from my soul.
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  • Joanne

    11 months ago

    Certainly you may. I wonder what it is about the sea that it figures so large in so many people's dreams?
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  • Girl-WOman

    11 months ago

    To empower women and girls in all respects of their lives through my writing. I wouldn't even dream of a Nobel Peace Prize -- although that would be fabulous -- but getting a book published and making a difference in young women's lives would be sensational.
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  • Xai Vicente Charles

    11 months ago

    I want more than anything to see my son as a man. I also dream of making my living through writing and creating mix media works that help bring about change.

    I would use my leisure time to travel the world and decorate my humble yet fabulous beach house (which I would own by then) and cook wonderful meals for my friends and family.
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  • Joanne

    11 months ago

    For me it would be the north east coast of England. A bit rugged, a bit wild and a bit cold, but so beautiful.
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  • Ruth

    11 months ago

    My dream is to have my money well invested so it generates itself.
    To have learned and practiced leadership and organizational skills in my career that I can then apply to what I really want to do: work on projects that help other people with a focus on education; perhaps open an orphanage in which the kids learn every skill they need to suceed in live.
    I want to have a home base: a house in the woods, off the grid, with chicken running around. :-)
    I want to raise my future kids in the different countries of their heritage so that they not only know but also understand where they come from.
    I want to have all the time I want to spend with my husband, because that is when I am happiest.
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  • Fiona

    11 months ago

    To run retreats that combine yoga, coaching, meditation, yummy food, sun, camaraderie and body therapies, to get people to enjoy being in their bodies in the moment. And to have a family.
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  • Tabitha

    11 months ago

    Go cage diving with Great Whites in South Africa, where they're most majestic
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  • Ngonzi Truth Crushshon

    11 months ago

    To start a youth & family center in an urban community that addresses: education, housing, employment and youth development.

    To start a longitudinal study w low-income urban youth ages 3-5 and help them graduate college & become professionals.

    To write a how-to-book on successfully working with African American youth and families, owning a home, going/graduating from college....and the programming format so when I die...the Vision can continue!

    To own property and to provide housing for homeless & those evicted.

    To empower African American men & women to dress for success, attain a job & own businesses. Empowerment Center
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  • Joannie

    11 months ago

    Thank you for that Collette! It's just made my day!
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  • Kathleen

    11 months ago

    To write and publish a book of poetry.
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  • Karen

    11 months ago

    Why just one dream........my mind swarms with ideas and smart intentions. To win a world championship buckle in barrel racing, to get my motorcycle licence....to give birth naturally...to learn the art of romance. To live my life to the utmost intensity and to share my light, love and healing to all that I encounter. This would be a good start to my list........
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  • Ella

    11 months ago

    A beautiful home next to a large(ish) body of water where I write and cook and sing and dance and love and live.
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  • laurie_matthews

    11 months ago

    Finding and spending the rest of my life with my true love, spending my days photographing and writing in my favorite places, all while being surrounded by my close friends.
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  • JoeM

    11 months ago

    Be continually creative and set a positive example until I depart from this place to the next - and have one hell of a lot of fun while doing it. :-)
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  • Karen

    11 months ago

    Wishing you lots of healing light and love. Throw your hands up in the air and say "I so Deserve this"!!
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  • Veronica

    11 months ago

    Love this! Am throwing up my hands right now. Thanks, Karen.
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  • LaKecia

    11 months ago

    My big, audacious dream is to write books that touch lives either through fiction or non-fiction works. I also want to have a house with a porch full of children.
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  • LaKecia

    11 months ago

    What a great dream!!! I send blessings to you.
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  • MoJo

    11 months ago

    My BHAG is re-worded to be 'Beautiful-Happy-Authentic-ME'! (Confession: I haven't discovered my style statement yet...but I'm sure it's an integral step in reaching my BHAG ;-)
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  • asha

    11 months ago

    To write the next big hit film.
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  • Lisa - Classic Cherished

    11 months ago

    Carrie.....your message has been heard. Get this....I was taking a spin class in town. It is a high intensity, high energy workout. Being me, I would count down the jumps, encourage others with a little hoots, howlers and "way to go" once in a while. Anyway, I was approached my the instructor a few days later. He said that he loved my energy and enthusiasm but one the members find me annoying and my energy too much in the morning. He said asked me to stop with the counting...high energy. I was hurt as I do lots of other activities and everyone loves me and the energy I bring. Later that day, I called the manager of the club and asked for my money back. I said I was going to be true to myself....and live my life being the authentic me!!
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  • Lori

    11 months ago

    My dream is to be able to watch my son grow up to be healthy, happy and fulfilled, to start a line of inspirational, asian tinged artwork that gets ridiculously popular and lands me on Oprah, and to live in my ocean front westcoast home with my hot and hunky husband whom I can't wait to wake up with every day and have sex with every night! hehe
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  • Amy Guth

    11 months ago

    When I'm able to be more of a philanthropist, I'll be very glad.
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    Wow…so many aspiring writers. We’ll have to do more on the site for writing/creativity/publishing…yes?
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    You want to discover the next Seabiscuit?!
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  • Ramona

    11 months ago

    ...to write and say things that mean something to people other than myself... to be on the lecture / blog circuit as a serious contributor... to earn a Ph.D...to get married, have children and be the mother / wife in a healthy family... to raise beautiful children...to live in a large, lovely house on lots of land and have a tree for a tire swing...to dine with and develop deep friendships with artists...to fall in love...to be loved...

    ~Ramona
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    This is a great story! Now you'll find a place that is big enough for you...Cherishing.
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    yeah on all of it - in the next few weeks I'm running a giveaway for the Business of Being Born DVD - great inspiration for a natural birth.
    xo
    Danielle
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    Alright then, I'll disclose another dream of mine: I want to start a (print) publishing house for smart inspirational content. We've been kicking around this notion in the studio lately, but we have about 5 major projects that we've just seeded. But there is a pattern in my creative life: everything happens sooner rather than later...
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  • Maureen

    11 months ago

    To support my family through writing and teaching; to live on a farm, near the ocean (of course); to travel with my kids; to find a loving, supportive, devastatingly handsome partner (you said audacious, right?); to write books for kids that affect them positively, as the books I read when I was a girl did me; to create a peaceful, comfortable, loving home.
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    Carrie and I will come...and we'll bring Oprah AND Gayle!
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  • Benita

    11 months ago

    To have beautiful homes, one in the city and a cabin on the Sunshine Coast, married to a supportive, trustworthy, affectionate, creative, beautiful and loving man with whom to have a wonderful family with, to have a solid, honest, genuine and joyful relationship with that husband, to have effortless abundance,to be able to freely share that abundance, to be in perfect health, to have wonderful, like-minded friends to be real and have fun with, to fully love and accept myself exactly as I am, to live an authentic, strong, peaceful, joyful, courageous,harmonious, and happy existence every day of my life.
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  • Karryn Ransom

    11 months ago

    Here here!
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  • Karryn Ransom

    11 months ago

    You do your own tri-athelon: bridge, needlepoint and golf!
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  • Karryn Ransom

    11 months ago

    Write. Your. Book.

    All her life, my mother's big dream was to write her book. She had it all planned out in her head. Then she died suddenly at 63. The book unwritten, the dream unfulfilled. Just write. Put it down and let the universe take care of the rest. But write it - for those who can't.
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    ghost in the machine - the Seabiscuit comment is for Tara, (above) who wants to train an amazing horse.

    But I want to say something about the "We don't name the dead" practice. I'm glad you brought this up, because, while I very much believe in the empowerment and magic that comes form voicing your dreams (see my recent blog post, "The Dream Fairy") I think you should be very mindful about spreadin' the dreams around.

    Tell people who want you to win, who can muster some belief. SEEK OUT A CULTURE OF YES. (And if you don't have a culture of Yes, stand tall, speak clearly and screw 'em if they don't know courage when they hear it.) Yes, dreams are precious and should be shared in Sacred space - which is just what we consider this digital space to be.

    In honour of the precious and the bold...
    xo
    Danielle
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  • verysheri

    11 months ago

    As a lover of all things kitch, we intend to build a road-side attraction in northern california on Hwy 101 where the redwoods meet the ocean with a mini-golf course the likes few have seen - each hole as elaborate as a movie set, my hubbie once build an 18 hole course in our backyard! I would run the verysheri art shop, half local indie art, half vintage funky collectibles. we'd be seeking foodies to open a cafe, and ultimately buy and re-furbish trailers, decorate in themes and rent them out for the night for travelers to enjoy! Can't Wait - can I start now?
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  • verysheri

    11 months ago

    Oh Yeah - AND have it be such a success that our place gets published in one of those books - unusual places in the USA you have to go visit!
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  • Hadley

    11 months ago

    Do it!Lynn. The world need your vision. I was talking with my yoga instructor this morning about this very thing. (In Toronto.)Let's make it a movement.
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  • Ruth

    11 months ago

    Ngonzi,

    It sounds like we have similar ideas. You are a few steps ahead of me already. I would start in Trinidad, since that is where part of my family is from and there is need as well, but I can see myself working on projects in Africa as well later on.
    Would love to exchange more with you on this.

    Ruth
    rushaqueens@yahoo.com
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  • Dena

    11 months ago

    To be a patron of the arts and have a great art collection. I already have two pieces . . .
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  • Traci

    11 months ago

    Yes, please!
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  • Lisa M.

    11 months ago

    To live to see the air become cleaner, the seas teaming with life and the people of our planet nixing their dependancy on fossil fuels.

    To spend a year or two sailing around the Caribbean with no shcedule, good food, good wine, scuba gear, tennis racquets, my man, our friends and an unlimited supply of books, mags and sunscreen.
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  • Cecile

    11 months ago

    I am sorry about your Mom. I like the way you wrote. Got the message! Thank you fior your reply, a refreshing, eye opener.

    Cécile
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  • Traci

    11 months ago

    OOoohh...good one! I'm officially adding this to the List O' Dreams.
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  • Lisa D.

    11 months ago

    Tuscany. Cypress trees, espresso, wine, amazing food - my hot honey & me.
    To find the career I love.
    I dream of love and beauty. To love and be loved. To create and inspire.
    OK, the obsene audacious dream - -
    to have an antique shop/gallery/wedding reception venue with gardens similar to Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA!!
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  • Laura

    11 months ago

    To inspire girls and women, through my writing and presentations, to acquire Body Literacy. I coined this phrase to mean the wisdom and knowledge that comes to women who learn to observe, chart and interpret their menstrual cycle events. With this cycle awareness comes the ability to better understand our sexuality, fertility and creativity, and to make truly informed decisions about our reproductive and general health from menarche through menopause and beyond.
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  • Tamara

    11 months ago

    To develop beautiful, peaceful, inspiring spaces where people (including me!) can be infinitely creative and do their life-purpose work. And to help people (including me!) do that for themselves on the scale of their own home or even their own room.

    As I'm manifesting those dreams, clicking on all cylinders, I want to remain in total of my own time--with space in my life to spend with my daughter, to paint and draw, to read and just be.
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  • Tamara

    11 months ago

    Body Literacy! I love that. It feels like what I felt when I first began to practice yoga and started to really **feel** the rhythms of my body.

    I love coining terms--in part because it reminds me that everything hasn't been thought of yet. My two latest from the various parts of my work-life: "Spiritual Aesthetic" to describe what your soul finds beautiful. And "service memoir" for a new genre of writing.
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  • Tamara

    11 months ago

    Ruth and Ngonzi, did you hear NPR's "All Things Considered" piece about research from an organization called Social Compact about the economic development potential of under-served urban areas? Fascinating and very positive. Check it out at npr.org. Look up Thursday's show, the piece called "Study: Poor neighborhoods not necessarily poor"
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  • Vix

    11 months ago

    To help design and create my 5001sqft home on the shores of Lake Keowee SC with a wrap around porch with a rocking chair and swing. A place for my family and friends come to spend the summer holidays - laughter, love and fun for all. Oh and to donate to charities that benefit women , educate women and assist women in becoming all they are meant to be.
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  • Ruth

    11 months ago

    Thank you, Tamara! I will listen to it when I get home tonight.
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  • Laura

    11 months ago

    Thanks for sharing your originals - "spiritual asethetic" - I'll be using that one!
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  • Cecile

    11 months ago

    This is an excellent, doable dream!!! Do it in Florida, so I can come over!!

    Cécile
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  • Luciaf

    11 months ago

    To liberate Christians everywhere from sexual repression.
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  • marn

    11 months ago

    YOU GO GIRL! You go where your energy is celebrated, not repressed!!! I love people with LOTS of energy - they make the world go 'round! YOU ROCK! :-P
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  • marn

    11 months ago

    My big audacious dream is to have a house in the mountains with a shop for my husband's business (www.condorsigns.ca), and to raise my 2 boys (ages 3 & 5) to be respectable, fun loving, spirited people who contribute goodness to this life.
    I want to be famous for something... I mean something GOOD - ha ha!! I want to discover, create, or make something that no one can live without that will be a million dollar idea... back to the drawing board! :-P
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  • Lynda Monk

    11 months ago

    To never wait to live my big audaciousd dream(s) for myself and my life. To take small steps each day fulfilling these dreams NOW. I worked in an emergency department of a hospital for a few years (as a social worker) and saw too many people's lives end suddenly - or get so close to the end that there was no time left to dream or to make dreams come true. So...I live next to the ocean NOW (packed a u-haul at age 30 and made that dream come true); I write every day (and just got accepted into the Banff School of the Arts to advance my memoir in progress); I have my own business (which was a dream I had in my twenties and have spent my thirties self employed)...what dreams are we already living? As my neice and I always say to one another "you go GIRL". Peace, Lynda
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  • sandgirl

    11 months ago

    To have my novel series published and successful.
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  • sandgirl

    11 months ago

    Yes, please, from me, too!
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  • sandgirl

    11 months ago

    Wow. Powerful, poignant message, Karryn. Timely, too. I'm going home to do some writing tonight, the writer's block seems to have finally moved away from its position on my head.

    Condolences for your loss -- whenever it happened, condolences are still needed from time to time.
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    So good to say "when" and not "if"!
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  • Connie

    11 months ago

    To either write a 24 signs astrology book OR create a tarot deck based
    in fashion designers
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  • Danielle LaPorte

    11 months ago

    me too. Carrie is in Montreal right now, but I speak for her - athletes & artists...
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  • Colette

    11 months ago

    YES!
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  • Jamie

    11 months ago

    To have a big, beautiful studio space that is not only a part of my much-loved home but also a place I can hold workshops, classes and coach. Wood floors, white walls, big windows and clear space. Organized shelves of art supplies of all kinds. I want to be able to dance there, to paint there, to have my husband practice sticks, to throw dance parties and art celebrations.

    My dream is to live a life of love, magic and inspiration, to change the world for the better, to be who I am and to love my life.
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  • Jamie

    11 months ago

    Wow, I am absolutely dying to see that tarot deck - my curiosity is piqued!
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  • Jamie

    11 months ago

    You definitely go, Lynda! Congratulations and thank you for the inspiration.
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  • Connie

    11 months ago

    I've been to Longwood Gardens in PA with my family and I recall how exquisite it wall was to us; I think there was a light show, too. Make it happen!!!!
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  • Connie

    11 months ago

    Jamie, thank you for the encouragement.
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  • Suzie Sunshine

    11 months ago

    You have already made a great start on your photographs of the world - just a few more countries to go. Keep your dream alive!
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  • Fiona

    11 months ago

    Yes, let´s make it a truly audacious dream and say I will run it in many wonderful locations all over the world!
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  • Danielle Morvan

    11 months ago

    My biggest dream is to travel to developing and needy countries and teach self reliance and sustainability. I want every person to know their own true potential and that they are the answer to each every problem. I believe that only when each and every man can see himself as a necessary part of this global consciousness we call humanity there will be no true evolution. It is my biggest dream to become one with nature, with god, and with all mankind.
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  • Danielle Morvan

    11 months ago

    Thats what its all about, Living the dream
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  • Beth C.

    11 months ago

    To live the rest of my days knowing that I am unconditionally loved by the people who matter to me. To work in a profession that improves the world while feeding my soul and helping me to reach my financial goals. To surround myself with beauty. To raise two or three funny, smart, cute children to be healthy self-sufficient adults who hold similar things dear.
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  • Shug

    11 months ago

    A seaside home and small inn, a fabulously quaint botanicals shop, successful freelance food writing career, and to be the founder and CEO of a wildly wonderful nonprofit that empowers women through vocal performance.
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  • Shug

    11 months ago

    I'll be visiting the Bay of Fundy in a few days . . . will carry your dream with me and pray it to the sea when I am there.
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  • Shug

    11 months ago

    I, too, would like to speak Portuguese. I am a HUGE fan of fado and part of my audacious dream (that I forgot to write earlier) is to travel to Portugal to study and sing fado there. Also to attend a pottery/ceramics/porcelain/tile workshop there and collect items of this kind.
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  • Shug

    11 months ago

    do you know about the PA Association for Sustainable Agriculture?
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  • Joannie

    11 months ago

    I don't know what to say except Thank you very much! If you go to Saint John I hope you'll see the Reversing Falls in the Saint John river. Absolutely stunning when the tide reveals the rapids. I could have gone there every day.
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  • Brenda

    11 months ago

    To retire from teacher and become a full-time volunteer in my community.
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  • Shug

    11 months ago

    I've been to St. John one other time, on the way to PEI when my daughters were young; ate lunch at a place overlooking the reversing falls river but didn't get to actually see them do their thing. We'll be in St. John on Monday, however, and this time I'm going to catch it. Bay of Fundy on Tuesday.
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  • Joannie

    11 months ago

    The place overlooking the Reversing Falls is called - wait for it - The Reversing Falls Restaurant! I ate there on my trip to Saint John in June. I liked it there and the food was excellent.

    I hope you have a wonderful time.
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  • Romana Mirza

    11 months ago

    To change the way business is done - it doesn't have to be this way! It can be real, authentic, people are doing it, I want to be part of that revolution, a leader - a guide.
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  • Raymond

    11 months ago

    To operate my own business as a web designer/writer. To be the best father, husband, person that I can be.
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  • janice briggs

    11 months ago

    I would like to write a book recounting the stories of the great women I have met in my life and continue to meet. Their stories are beautiful journeys to be shared. I would like to establish an international sorority called "La Dolce Vita Women" that celebrates the camaraderie of women and encourages compassionate, nurturing and empowering relationships.
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  • Carolynn

    11 months ago

    I firmly believe in the power of dreaming big and trusting that somehow, some way, it will all unfold as it should, at the proper time. I also believe and embrace the sharing and mutual supporting of our dreams, so I'm adding my voice to this joyous celebration!

    MY DREAM is to live in the South of France in a heritage house built of stone and situated on the top of a gentle hilltop. I'll have a writing desk set up in front of a window that opens wide to a view of my neighbour's vineyard below and the ocean beyond. There will be a line of tall, skinny poplars on the horizon and it's here that I will write my novel. At my feet is my Golden Retriever companion of many years and my cat is curled and napping at my side on the desktop. Behind me is a luscious four poster bed where the man of my dreams and I spend many an afternoon making love while a gentle breeze cools our skin. He's handsome, kind, a good provider, funny, and a great cook. Behind our home is a well maintained stable that houses a couple of horses and a staff member who looks after their daily needs. In addition to writing, I also operate a therapeutic riding facility to share the healing gifts of horses and facilitate health and happiness for others. I still maintain my apartment in Vancouver so I have a place to stay when I get homesick and want to jet away for a quick visit.

    Much love to you, Carrie & Danielle and all the others who have shared their hearts desires.
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  • MarieLeona

    11 months ago

    One dream only... well to be able to publish one novel. To live healthfully and sanely til the age of 93 at least. To own a cottage by the sea, to have a red convertible. To leave a legacy of love and respect to my children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.
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  • Get Togetha

    11 months ago

    I absolutely loved that documentary!Ricki Lake's courage made me uber proud to call myself woman. Great giveaway!
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  • Get Togetha

    11 months ago

    Thanks for the vivid details Carolynn. I was right there with ya!
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  • Get Togetha

    11 months ago

    My dream is to become an inspiration travel to Tuscany, Morocco, Spain and Paris and live a year in each country!
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  • lynn

    11 months ago

    No, can you tell me more?
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  • lynn

    11 months ago

    My yoga instructor is behind my vision too!
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  • Cecile

    11 months ago

    Fiona,

    How narrow minded of me!! Golbal is the word!!!
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  • Ellen

    11 months ago

    I want to run a live-in therapy facility for women with Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities).
    or
    I want to be that strange woman who lives in a cabin at the edge of the village and cures everyone in exchange for produce and meat.
    or
    I want to stake a gold claim in the California hills and hide out there with my burro and a year's worth of supplies.
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  • Lindsey

    11 months ago

    To help people live healthier, happier lives--on a globale scale, through yoga.
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  • Betsy

    11 months ago

    To become a graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and mixed media artist!
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  • Ylen

    11 months ago

    I dream to be in the musical, Miss Saigon. I've been dreaming about that for 19 years. Well, they're having a production close to my town but it's taking me everything to get myself to the audition. I think it's the self-expression and the gutts that it takes to shake it on stage in a bikini (and still make the performance artistic, not raunchy) that appeals to me.
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  • Karel

    11 months ago

    My big, audacious dream is to be known for my art.
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  • Cindy

    11 months ago

    Asha, I am right there with you. My dream is to be a screenwriter, travel the world, and to live in a Victorian House on the water in California. But, my biggest dream is to be a screenwriter. I would love to have someone else to bounce ideas off of if you are open to it. Let me know.
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  • asha

    11 months ago

    I would love to! That would be great.
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  • Cindy

    11 months ago

    Great! You can e-mail me at crichard@clarku.edu and we can decide where to go from there.
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  • Cindy

    11 months ago

    Hi Asha,

    For some reason your message back to me didn't have a "reply", so I am not sure if you would get the message that I reposted. Please e-mail me at crichard@clarku.edu and we can go from there. Take care.
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  • Vanessa Rae

    11 months ago

    Making my life, my art...with my loves/interests in... writing (on my blog, plays, poetry, letters)... photography... making my own clothes and jewelry... cooking and baking with nurturing in mind... being a creative and thoughtful gift giver... making my own cards... having my home and everything I own represent me and what I find to be precious and valuable... being a true friend... being a thoughtful, loving, understanding, inspiring wife and mother... working for Carrie & Danielle as a Style Statement guru/consultant and inspiring others to make their life their art.
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  • Bettyann

    11 months ago

    Don't really know I think I would like to stay home every day and read and watch TV,if that were to get boring then a visit to a Library or lot's of money to shop and travel.
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  • janice briggs

    11 months ago

    That is my dream too and I'm actually doing it! Ten years in the planning and I have finally launched La Dolce Vita Retreats. I envisioned all of the things I love to do and all of the things I so wanted to do but, for various reasons was unable to do. I saw my life passing me by, almost like riding on a TGV and seeing all of my aspirations left on the platform. My retreats have given me the freedom to enjoy it all - learn the languages, paint my soul, ride my horses, celebrate the camaraderie of women. The last part of my dream will be to write my book about the wonderful women I meet, their incredible stories and to grace the book with beautiful portrait photography that captures the essence of their souls.
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  • bene

    11 months ago

    I want to travel a lot, to Paris, Venice, the Amalfi coast etc. I would love to live in a village in England, preferably close to the sea.( I think I may have watched to many Miss Marple shows and have a bit of a romantic view about it all.) A big old, ramshackle of a house where I could paint and write and have a huge family about. Another possibility would be to live in London and work as an artist.
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  • Shug

    11 months ago

    Your dream was cast to the Bay on Tuesday morning. I hauled my kayak out of the water after paddling about the Caves at St. Martin's, and found this beautiful grey stone, about 7 inches (17-18 cm) with a quartz line all the way around it - a rock of good fortune. It made a big splash when I heaved it into the water, your dream attached.
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  • Shug

    11 months ago

    You can find them online at www.pasafarming.org. Their annual conference in State College each February might be worth the trip for you; inspiring keynoters, workshops, fantastic food, and tons of like-minded people who are walking the talk when it comes to sustainable ag. There is something there for just about anyone who eats and cares about food.
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  • Joannie

    11 months ago

    Shug: Thank you SO much. I can see you paddling about the Caves at St. Martin's. I can see you finding the beautiful stone (part of me wanted you to keep it and send it to me!). I can see you 'heaving' it into the water, hear the splash and feel my dream attached.

    I'll let you know....
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  • lynn

    11 months ago

    Thank you so much. I will pass along this information to the people that I am working with. Thanks again!
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  • Ylen

    10 months ago

    I wrote about my big, audacious dream for myself on July 25. I said that I wanted to be in the cast of Miss Saigon. I’ve been dreaming about that for 19 years. Well, I got my ass to the theater and actually auditioned on Aug. 5. I had my first rehearsal on Monday, Aug. 18. Yes, I am officially part of the cast - as a dance hall girl. Hot damn!
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  • Carrie McCarthy

    10 months ago

    Go Dance Girl!!! Bravo for fulfilling your dream!
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  • Ylen

    10 months ago

    Am honored that you, Carrie, replied. Thank you!
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