Benefits

The benefits you receive depend on your goals, your openness, and the people that you choose to work with.  Here are potential benefits:


1.  Ongoing support for goal-attainment, and for exploring and living your personal mission or deepest fulfillment.  

2.  Increased time, money, energy and skill. The second lane of the Eight Lane Highway strategy is a focus on building whatever resource or resources you need most to improve your life.

3.  More hope and optimism for your own future.  The support structures of the program can be used to help you solve everyday problems and also figure out what's blocking your progress in whatever areas you're working on.  In other words, you don't just get support, you create an environment for real-life learning.

4.  More hope and optimism about the future of your community and world.  As you learn how to have a greater impact on the world, and as you use our high-leverage strategies for change, you will have good reasons for optimism and hope.  As you empower people in your own life, either informally or through volunteer work, you will see change on a small scale and have reason to believe it can happen on a larger scale.

5.  Connection to the whole.  Some people feel absurd and meaningless because their focus is too self-oriented.  But connection to nature and the world happens through contact and commitment.  We are already connected, our destinies are intertwined, but without committed action the feeling is often lacking.  As Gandhi said, "What the hands do, the heart will learn."

6.  A legacy and an "assurance policy" for the world, your children or future generations.  An insurance policy is for when things go wrong; an assurance policy is preventing things from getting so bad in the first place.  

7.  Self mastery.  The learning environment mentioned in #3 above, can also be applied to personal and emotional growth, and also to the spiritual path.  (Note that we do not advocate any particular spiritual path, but encourage people to walk and live their own paths.)

8.  Adventure drama.  Drama happens when you don't know how something will end.  High drama happens when a lot is at stake.  If you set your goals high enough so that you aren't sure if you will accomplish them, then you have created a drama.  If over four months you set challenging goals in each lane of the Eight Lane Highway, then you have created eight adventure dramas.  These dramas will move slower than movie plots, but you have many dreams running at once.  More importantly, these are real-life dramas in which you are the star. Your family and friends are your audience, and your Fellowship of the Dream contacts play supporting roles.