The question I left you with on yesterday’s blog was: How do you create a shared reality from your personal alternate reality?…

Here’s the process:

As soon as I shared my thoughts about “getting serious about building the garage” with Gwen it became a new shared reality within our personal shared alternate reality.

Does this sound complicated to you? Look, each one of us continuously generates a personal alternate reality. When two people share the same alternate reality it becomes a shared personal alternate reality.

Every family has it’s own shared alternate reality. Friends share an alternate reality with each other.

Let’s say you have a great pizza recipe you’ve shared with family and friends. That recipe and the pizza it creates is a shared personal alternate reality.

Open a restaurant in order to sell the pizza and you have created a shared reality. It’s no longer personal or alternate. It now has the potential of altering the perception of reality of everyone who comes into contact with it… and if all goes well they will believe it’s the best pizza they’ve ever tasted!

The process of taking an idea, which is living within your personal alternate reality, into a shared reality, requires two steps:

1. The idea or dream which is a personal alternate reality must first transform itself into a shared alternate reality. This is usually accomplished with the help of individuals you have a personal relationship with.

CAUTION: For some people this can be a minefield! If those you attempt to share your idea with fail to accept it as part of their reality, you may become discouraged and drop any further consideration or action in support of the idea.

On the other hand, if you find a positive, supportive reception it can further energize the idea.

2. The next step is to transform the shared alternate reality into a shared reality. To do this it must be exposed to people other than your family and friends.

When I launched my record label with Gwen a few years ago, the music, the album covers, the business name (Gathering Wave ®) all lived as an alternate shared reality until the day we went public. When we opened our doors for business it became a shared reality which grew in size with each person who came in contact with it. Now my music is available all over the world!

In order to take an idea or dream and turn it into a shared reality you must ultimately share it with other people who in turn acknowledge it as part of their shared reality. This doesn’t mean everyone is going to love your idea or dream. It means that they accept it as a “real thing”.

-Bob Baran