Workamper Dreamers

It is time to light your fire!  To ignite the afterburners and get serious about your Dreams.    The holidays are wonderful times and provide time for reflection and self evaluation.  You may have discussed your Dreams with relatives over the holiday table and found them not as receptive as you had hoped.  If today your Dream meter is low because of input from the relatives, it is time to recharge your Dream.  If you Dreams are super charged because of input you received from your relatives, than you are blessed.

You probably didn’t think much about how the relatives would react when you brought up your Dreams!  Most believe that since they are your Dreams, and because your family loves you, they will be excited for you.  That is not the norm and it is usually more detrimental to share your Dreams with them, with many a Dream being crushed by loved ones. 

If this happened to you, shack it off.  Pick yourself up, and possibly take into consideration some of the input you received that could be helpful to you.  Go back and reflect on your goals and why you have the Dreams you have.  Remember that many times you receive negative input from others because you are sharing your Dreams, and they are jealous because they don’t have Dreams.  Or, their Dreams have been stomped on by someone else, so they are passing on the same treatment.  I am not discounting the love of your relatives, just their actions, as you should too.  You can still love someone, without having to agree with them, or take their advice.

So today, review your Dreams and begin developing your game plan for the coming year.   We are on the doorstep of December 2009 and the month is an awesome month to work on our Dreams as we celebrate the Christmas season and prepare for a New Year.

This year you won’t be setting mindless New Year’s resolutions that have no hope of being remembered after February!   This year you are planning out your Dreams for the coming year and beyond!

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

Yesterday in America we celebrated Thanksgiving Day.  On this day we took time to reflect upon the blessings that our country affords us.  This Blog exists for the purpose of helping you develop your Workamping Dream.

So, today is re-evaluation day if you have been reading with us for a while.  Where are you today with respect to your Dream building?  Are you any further today than three months ago?  If you truly are developing your Dream to live the Workamping lifestyle you are squandering your freedom to develop your Dream if you are not setting goals to learn more about the lifestyle.  If you are not learning from individuals that are actively living the lifestyle by listening to their interviews on the Workamper Dreamer website, you are missing out on valuable input to further your own Dream. 

For your Dream to come to fruition it is going to take ACTION.  This action begins with your Thoughts.  The beginning steps require you to give thought to learning as much as you can about the lifestyle.  The mission of Workamper News is to provide you with the tools and information to develop your Dream to the point where you either take Action and begin the lifestyle or determine that it will remain just that, a Dream.

Today, give renewed life to your Dream if you allowed it to dim, or begin new with your Dream if you are just joining us.  Begin to see what the possibilities will be for you as you explore the awesome lifestyle of Workamping and exploring this great country one job at a time.

Until later…                

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States.  This holiday is one that is almost lost as the Christmas merchandising that used to wait to begin on Friday after Christmas –  seems to crank up after Halloween.

The holiday has traditionally been celebrated as a time of giving thanks for everything that we have been afforded in our country.  To some this Thanksgiving Day may not be a day of thanks, and to others their lives have been filled with abundance.

My wish for you and everyone this day,  is that we pause to give thanks for the simpler things that life in the United States provides all of us.  I am thankful that we have the freedom to live our lives as WE decide.  The life I am living today is because of the choices I had the freedom to make in my past.  This freedom has been costly with thousands of lives lost over the past years to maintain it.   I give thanks to the many who were willing to give their lives that I might enjoy the freedom of choice that our country provides.

Today, no matter how you are spending your day, pause to give thanks for the United States of America.   For a country that provides you with the freedom of choice. 

Yes, you can chose to complain about the government, or the economy, your property taxes… or you can chose to realize that even that is a freedom you enjoy.  You have the freedom to openly express your opinion, if you so desire.

Join me today in toasting America.  A country of many choices, options, possibilities, opportunities, and yes the freedom to Dream!

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

You can expect, if you actively participate in the process and so does everyone involved the following results:

·        Improved listening skills

·        Positive open expression of feelings

·        Improved conflict resolution skills

·        Heightened ability to let go of resentments and old issues

·        Improved mutual respect and understanding.

·        Very important when Dreaming about the Workamping lifestyle, a greater sense of connection, unity, and bonding.

This process can and will be very enlightening for you and all involved.  The reason I encourage this process be undertaken with your partner, spouse, or friend is self serving in a way.  You need to understand that they are on the same page so to speak.  There have been many Dreamers enter the lifestyle only to find out that their partner, spouse, or friend had never totally expressed their feelings, and they were only going along with the idea to please the other person.  Over time that spirit will be tested and could become explosive depending up the feelings of the person who really didn’t want to be living the lifestyle.

Take the time to do this little exercise and you will find that there may be an number of surprising things surface.  The true miracle that will happen once you get present, underneath all of the anger, resentment, and distrust and anything else that comes to the surface, hopefully there is nothing but love.  And from a place of love you can either continue to create your Dream to live the Workamping lifestyle or possibly shelve it for now, to possibly revisit at a later time in your lives.

I know you are thinking, I don’t want to do this process and possibly lose my Dream!  My simple question is…wouldn’t you rather know how your partner, spouse, or friend feels now instead of later?  This process could save you a bunch of grief down the road, or just the opposite, develop a much stronger bond and synergy that will be developed towards moving forward into the wonderful lifestyle of Workamping and seeing America one job at a time.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

The very first thing you will want to do is explain to the individual or possibly group of people you are wanting to have a Heart Talk with the value of occasionally using a structured process that will guarantees a deeper level of listening.  The purpose of this type of communication is to create a safe, nonjudgmental space that supports the constructive expression of feelings.  If feelings are not brought to the surface they can have a damaging effect upon your Dream to live the Workamping lifestyle.  This process is vital to your future success of entering the Workamping lifestyle with a partner, spouse or friend.

Use the following guidelines expressed by Jack Canfield in Principle 49 of “The Success Principles” to start the Heart Talk process:

·        Find an object to hold and be the designated indicator of who is speaking.  The person holding the (object of your choice) is the one who is speaking at that time.

·        Don’t judge or criticize what is said.

·        After you have finished talking pass the object to the other person.

·        You talk about how you feel.

·        You keep the information confidential.

·        You don’t leave the talk until it’s declared complete.

·        Pass the object around until no one has anything further to say.

Since this is a Heart Talk it would be beneficial if you could actually find something like a stuffed heart to pass around.  It would be one of the better representative objects for such an exercise.  At the very least take a piece of red construction paper and draw a heart on it and cut it out and utilize it as your object you pass around.  The heart shape will help remind you and everyone involved in your Heart Talk that what you are hearing is coming from the heart.

Tomorrow we will discuss what type of results you can expect from a Heart Talk.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

Jack Canfield defines Heart Talk in Principle 49 of “The Success Principles” as a structured communication process to create the safety for a deep level of communication to occur without the fear of condemnation, unsolicited advice, interruption, or being rushed.

This type of conversation is very powerful and can assist two, or more people to bring to the surface unexpressed emotions that could otherwise get in the way of people being totally present in the moment.

If you have a partner, spouse, friend whom you plan to share the Workamping lifestyle, this process is one you should consider undertaking to move your dream to the next level, or be prepared for your Dream to be voided.

Over the next few days we will dig into how to conduct a Heart Talk and how it will further assist you in Workamper lifestyle Dream.

Until later…       

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

We have spent a number of days talking about communication where your primary activity has been to listen.  We are now going to look at the other side of communication and discuss how we speak.

A reader asked me what this has to do with the Workamper lifestyle?  That is a fair question and one that you may have thought.  I answered the readers question with another question.  Are you going to be living the Workamper lifestyle with a partner, or spouse or friend?  If so, you will be living in close quarters and you are going to get to know things about each other that you may not have known while living in a stick and brick house.

Along with utilizing the four questions discussed over the past days you will need to speak with impeccability.  Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements states “impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.”

Jack Canfield states – “To speak with impeccability is to speak from your highest self.  It means that you speak with intention and with integrity.  It means that your words are in alignment with what you say you want to produce – your vision and your dreams.”

Until later.

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

Over the past days we have been sharing about four questions that can super charge your communication.  They involve asking the questions and then closing your lips and not saying anything.  It means allowing the person to answer the questions to the best of their ability without interruptions or interpretation.

You will find these questions seem to have a magical quality.  They will provide the person you are seeking to communicate with on a deeper level the ability to open up to you.  The questions when asked and answers requested take the communication process through a clarification that is not commonly reached during regular conversations.

I encourage you to write these questions down on 3 x 5 cards and keep them close at hand and utilize them over the coming days.  Practice each day by asking someone these questions over lunch or dinner.  You will experience the magical results and you will learn so much and will feel much closer to the individual afterwards.

Until later…

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

Please take a moment and go back and read last Friday, Nov 13^th blog post to see the first question, and Monday, Nov 16^th blog post for question number two, and yesterdays Nov 17^th for question number three, before answering the last question below.

Here is question number three.

Q4:  What strengths will you need to reinforce and maximize, and what skills and resources will you need to develop that you don’t currently have in order to capture those opportunities?

Until later…                

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer

Please take a moment and go back and read last Friday, Nov 13^th blog post to see the first question, and Monday, Nov 16^th blog post for question number two before answering the question below.

Here is question number three.

Q3:  What are the biggest opportunities that you have that you would need to focus on and capture to achieve those things?

Until later…                

Steve Anderson
Dream Engineer