Helping you
in your search for a bigger life dream
When I incorporated
my coaching company some years back, my attorney urged me not
to use my own name in the company name. "You need a name that
is bigger than your personal identity, a name that can encompass
all the things you are likely to cook up."
That's what I get for
hiring a lawyer who knows me. I agreed to think about it. A few
days later, while gardening, the song "Shaboom" bubbled up out
of my synaptic soup. Immediately I thought it would be a great
name, a name that says,"Pay attention; this company is different.
There's attitude here, and whatever they do, they don't take themselves
too seriously."
Then I remembered the
refrain, "life could be a dream."
No kidding, that pretty
much sums up just about everything that intrigues me as well as
most of what I know. I guess you could say that Shaboom is about
developing and applying the epistemology of dreams.* (Is that
fancy or what?)
What does it mean to
dream up a life? What is the relationship of dream and reality?
If life is a dream, then... what? Assuming that there is a relationship
between intention and outcomes, assuming that we do, in fact,
have the potential to cooperate with reality and co-create wondrous
results, what can know about how to do that? How do we become
skillful, discerning in our dreaming-up? What aesthetic will orient
us? And, not least, what responsibilities flow from the privileged
scope that dreaming up our lives accords us?
Whether individuals
or organizations, business owners or non-profit boards, independent
professionals or early retirees, our clients have this in common:
they already know themselves to be effective in the world. Often
they have succeeded quite handsomely in what they set out to do
in early adulthood (or in the formative years of an organization).
Now they are ready to leverage this experience in the service
of a bigger life dream, a dream they frequently cannot yet articulate
but that they know by its absence.
So, Shaboom is our
name, and dreaming in all its manifestations is our work. Dreaming
for the sake of innovation. Dreaming for the sake of beauty. Dreaming
for the sake of meaning. Dreaming for the sake of life itself.
Dreaming and living the dream of a life worth living, work worth
doing.
What would
you do tomorrow if you believed in dreams?
What would
you dream tonight if you knew you would not fail?
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*Epistemology: n. The branch of philosophy that studies the nature
of knowledge, in particular its foundations, scope, and validity.
Encarta World English Dictionary
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