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The Dreamers & the Do-ers: All things created twice.

“All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things”  - Steven Covey. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Two acts of creation. Two separate and very different skills. All things are created once in the clouds of your mind, then must be created in actuality if those dreams are to fly…

First Creation – Mental

First creation requires that you be a big picture dreamer, visualising the possibilities, optimisitically open to anything, accepting of anything, to create, imagine a vivid future as a movie in your mind.

This is the axis of meaningfulness, your semantic vision for your life and how much meaning it has to you.

Second Creation – Actual

Second creation is where the pedal hits the metal. This stage requires you to be focussed, detail oriented, tactical, motivated, driven, problem solving, action oriented.

This is the axis of performance or physiology where you actualise your meanings.

Which creation are you more naturally suited to?

The personality traits that make you good at one, can sometimes undermine you in the achievement of the other.

Do you dream massive dreams and start lots of projects but find it hard to see them through?

Do you act out the detail and the tactics without any clear idea of what you’re attempting to achieve? Do you work compulsively and get lost in the detail sometimes wasting your time on meaningless things?

These are two ends of the spectrum and you probably fall somewhere in the middle.

Finding the ZONE of creation.

The key to visualising and actually creating is finding the balance between the two axis of creation. When you match the meaningfulness of the task to your performance of that task, you will find that magical zone of “flow” creating a peak experience of joy, happiness and timelessness. These experiences are your path to self-actualisation and the creation of your potential.

This Model is from Meta-Coaching Dr Michael Hall.

If you get stuck on the dreamer side in fluff-land: ask yourself:

• What is the one dream I would really love to see to completion?
• What would I love to see created in actuality more than anything else?
• Whats the first step or milestone along the way?
• what do I need to DO to get that completed?
• What are the steps along the way?
• What skills do I need to learn?
• Do I need to enlist help or support to assist with the skills that are not my strengths?
• What can I DO now to begin?
• What accountability can I implement to keep myself motivated over time to complete this?

If you get stuck on the workaholics side, ask yourself….

Are you more a dreamer or a do-er?  Practice the skills of the other side as often as you can to maximise your results and get done those things that are most meaningful to you!