Last night my wife and I were running a marathon in my dreams. When we crossed the finish line, i was told that I did one minute faster than my fastest marathon time ever. I was really amazed and wanted to tell my other running mates. In real life my life doesn’t run at all and it has been almost two decades since I have run a full marathon. When I woke up, I had wished that the dream was literal and about real running. I had even had a really great run of about 8 k the day before.

If it is not about real like physical running, what is it about?

The metaphor of “running” has to do with being able to move more quickly with where your positive energy wants to take you. So if you have projects to do and you can run with them, it means that you can get them moving in real life fairly rapidly.

What are some of the issues with running with things in your life? Here are some questions to reflect on.

1. Who is likely to throw an obstacle down in your path or a roadblock to keep you from running with things?
2. How does memory of past failures make it difficult to run with things?
3. Do you have clarity around where you are headed?

Try running with something small and then gradually build up level of difficulty.