A Joosr Guide to… Wishcraft by Barbara Sher with Annie Gottlieb

By allowing ourselves to dream, we engage a different part of our brains, an area that holds the key to discovering what makes us truly happy, as well as helping us to push past problems and be innovative in finding alternative ways to achieve our goals

You should never feel that you have to do everything on your own. Reaching out to others will likely bring surprising and helpful offers, which will start to break down the obstacles in your way

Then, you can review your ideas and decide which one best fits with your touchstone.

Take your own list of problems, and for each one, write down as big a list of solutions as you possibly can—no matter how outlandish these might be.

Remember that getting your negative feelings out in this way is healthy: it helps you to laugh at them and gives renewed energy to work through them. This

never gave me a dime; it’s just not fair…” By the time she has gone through this, she has got all her buried worries off her chest and, just like a two-year-old who throws a huge tantrum

One way you can do this is to start a problems list. With your goal in mind, allow yourself to imagine all the obstacles that might stand in your way

Once you have discovered your touchstone, you need to find ways to bring a taste of it into your life as quickly as possible. The

Dream: Yoga teacher

Touchstone: Bring joy of yoga to others

Goal: To run weekly yoga workshops

Are you doing something you love or are you just plodding along, day by day, doing something that pays the bills but doesn’t exactly fill you with joy?