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Leah Tarleton's avatar

My delulu dream is that my business will contribute to literal world peace. I have this vision where highly-sensitive, neurodivergent, non-typical, differently wired, deep feeling weirdos of all kinds and all walks of life feel empowered in who they are and their unique gifts.

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Emily P. Perry's avatar

My delulu dream is that I make a real impact on people's lives--that my work and teaching not only reaches wide but also runs deep, reminding others of their true selves. This, along with financial abundance, so I can continue doing what I love!

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Megan Lui's avatar

"just give me your delulu" is my new favorite phrase

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GEISTE's avatar

To write the most beautiful songs that I can write and that they resonate with people around the world. Build an artist community, a place where we could meet and find other artists to work with in a beautiful space. I have been creating isolated and connecting with people irl is my new hope/goal.

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Mirella Stoyanova's avatar

My delulu dream is that an agent finds me through reading my recent HuffPost Personal essay and asks to work with me on launching my career as a memoirist, essayist, and speaker.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/son-nearly-died-control-trauma_n_66e85a03e4b0b7fef8320d7d?utm_campaign=share_facebook&ncid=engmodushpmg00000003&fbclid=IwY2xjawFe_1FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSo0hKKUtO4KKLa2kSw_JA8MNR0mbxm7nxW2B1NFfPhKiAabJ8dZOAZSgQ_aem_whIB4LMsaUCAhf7ZMfGRzw

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Story Carrier's avatar

My delulu dream is that readers find my writing workbook for unsilencing women to so helpful, they not only buy it, but they also live with it and practice the rituals and exercises.

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Frosina | Autumn and Bliss's avatar

My delulu dream is that I grow my blog to be the no.1 go-to destination for the gentle, sensitive souls of the world who would like to find their own community and live more slowly and intentionally in a busy, loud world. Tied into that is another delulu dream of publishing my own book and it becoming a bestseller and me becoming a full-time author.

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✨Shaunté Ledger's avatar

✨You had me at delulu💜✨

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Maria Giesbrecht's avatar

My delulu dream is write a NYT bestseller.

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Lisa Bolin 🌸's avatar

My delulu dream ✨ doing my thing and earning an amazing living doing it

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Enael Rodríguez's avatar

I want to be one of the best fantasy writers in the world

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Lex Read's avatar

I just want to be enough of an artist who has consistently created and spilled myself out (rather than taking years-long breaks when I need to hide in holes), so that someday when I'm a mad old bird, they'll call me "eccentric" and excuse my antics and borderline hermit tendencies as "oh, don't mind her. she's just an artist."

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Kimberly Alford's avatar

My delulu dream is to have babies in my forties 🤰while running a creative counseling situation and loving the shit out of my life + partnership❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥 (Feels good to say out loud - Thanks for that!!!) ❤️‍🔥

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Kari Bentley-Quinn's avatar

I am a playwright. That career in and of itself is INHERENTLY delulu!

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Sarah Robertson's avatar

My delulu dream is funding my Kickstarter while I sleep tonight. Just 80% to go!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thesearethedays/brand-seasons-playdeck

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Nicola Blackwell's avatar

Love this! That the media right for my Gods of Love duology get bought by a big studio in the US (they're being repped there, it could happen!) and they get a huge beautifully made hit TV series made of them. And that I then get to write more in the series due to massive demand. 🤞❤️

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YN's avatar

My crazy dream: to be a light in the world and impact change, even if it's only on a local scale. I hope to create educational content online and become someone who discusses "complicated" topics in a way that is digestible to all in my community. Regardless of education level. First, I have to overcome the imposter syndrome that tells me I'm not smart enough or that I don't fit into a certain box to be taken seriously. Delulu: You might see me on a major news network, or I might start my own online independent news platform for our community.

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Waj.Adnan's avatar

My delulu dream is to write the book and tell the story I strongly believe I was born to tell. I can feel the story in my blood. Quite delulu if you ask me, but why not? 😂 And get it published of course. And have people love it of course.

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Lesley's avatar

I had a solo exhibition of 8 of my painted and embroidered wall hangings ( four where 3m x 2.8m) in the House of Commons in the UK in May called Artists and Disability Oppression Up Close and Intensive. 😁

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Joi's avatar

My delulu dream is to make a living for being my creative self... however I'm not so delulu about it anymore:)

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✨Shaunté Ledger's avatar

My delulu is to have a sToRyDrOpS book and tarot deck published.

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Emma E.'s avatar

Haha this made me laugh today and I totally relate with feeling delusional. My unreasonable dream is that I get to write my bestsellers on a Caribbean island like Elin Hildebrand.

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Life is My Palette's avatar

I dream of an expressive arts studio with many windows overlooking an outside garden. Collage, watercolor painting, movement, dance, writing and so much more would fill this space. I would facilitate workshops offering these modalities to help women process through life challenges and joys. I am also creating art and writing for a few books. I am 63 with chronic health issues. This seems like a tall order. Nevertheless, it is what I dream about.

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Redbicycle Studios's avatar

To LIVE a creative life. To have space and time during the day to make all of my wildest creations, one after another. To connect with others in the evening; sharing food, conversation, and play.

My first worldwide success is currently in the making: A deck of cards with beautiful archetypes to call on in your time of need; complete with an in-depth written companion to help see you through. I AM MAKING MAGIC ✨✨✨

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Jana's avatar

My delulu is that I will turn a whole region of devasteded, toxicated lands into a healed oasis through soul-empowering the inhabitants.

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Erentia Bedeker's avatar

I want to make art stop- motion short films for the rest of my life without worrying about funding. Just blissful creation every day!

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Jon Murphy's avatar

Pure delusion: I replace Hemingway. Author the new Aesop’s fables. Spark that wildfire of traditional storytelling that spreads from small towns to the coastal cities for once. I retire to woodworking and oil painting, throw spirit-filled parties for my family gatherings, tell stories to my grandchildren and make them great, and pass down my writings with books and digital memory so my bloodline can always return to their roots.

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Melissa-Jane Fogarty (Nguyen)'s avatar

My delulu is making enough money as an author to be able to pay off debts for all my family members.

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Martha Trudi Ryan's avatar

Write so many books, sell so many paintings, travel internationally with photography, teach self-love to women and girls, produce music, DJ internationally and just truly live from the creative force that wants to live through me. I sometimes believe that if it wasn't destined, then perhaps I wouldn't be so inclined to be delulu. I find it hard to believe we're placed here on earth with big dreams, talents, skills and hearts only to let them slide to society's norms and conditioning. <3

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Jen Urquhart's avatar

My delulu is that my coloured pencil art will be recognised as a fine art medium.

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Janet Jago-Lee's avatar

My delulu is that one day I can clear up my home ish anyway.

Practise my music and my art. Learn new art. Be slow and have slow days. Be entranced in one of my portrait commisions alongside a reverie of a radio 4 play.

I'll be in my garden, learning new things and planting herbs then using them for witchy and paganie remedies along with my essential oils. All of this with my animals all around me. xxx

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Thig's avatar

My delulu is real real. As a kid I wanted to be an animator for Disney animation studios.

I’m 51 and hundreds of rejects later, I still haven’t gotten in (but I did work on Shrek and at Sony Animation)

I just wrote about this yesterday

https://thig.substack.com/p/a-real-gatekeeper-would-never-do

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Joanne Morton's avatar

My delulu dream is the Manifesting Mobile becomes the world's largest community engagement art project and I am hired for speaking and workshop experiences, plus my art sells online. www.joannemorton.com - I see all of us LIVING and LOVING our delulu dreams !

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Local Sweetheart's avatar

My delulu dream is to play arenas around the world, be on the cover of the biggest magazines, and own a home lol. But my realistic dream is to change lives, which is already happening :)

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Tara's avatar

My delulu dream (which is def not so delulu) is that sharing my personal stories about healing, reclaiming my creativity, and living abroad can help other people heal too, feel creative too, and feel inspired that they can build their dream life too.

I just wish that I had any sort of guidance in my 20s when I was navigating moving to a foreign country alone, serious mental health struggles and then ultimately a spiritual awakening that changed everything. But now that I've blazed this trail for myself I want to shine a light on it for others who may be going through the same.

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Sarah Malm's avatar

My delulu dream is that I could support myself making art. I seem to not thrive in the traditional 9to5 world. I just want to make art, and remind people remember to love on themselves so they can love on others.

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According to Mimi's avatar

My delulu dream is to get paid for writing - enough to never go back to a regular job.

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Rachael Amber's avatar

I'm gonna launch my Embodied Ecosystems Tarot deck even though the world's on fire, and it's gonna help so many people show up presently in these wild times, even if it can't heal the whole world.

https://cyclicalroots.com/embodiedecosystems

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Ray's avatar

My delulu dream is build a world renowned personal brand with my art. I want to be a financially free multimillionaire artist/creative entrepreneur known for making genuine connection with people, creating meaningful art and products that make a positive impact adding infinite value in the lives of my supporters and the world at large.

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drea.m.76's avatar

My delulu is that what I say or how I respond to people will legitimately have an effect, and like a butterfly's wings, will create a significant positive change in the world. 🕊️❤️🤲

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