GUIDING A BOSS TO SUCCESS

This dream came from a woman, Angie, who is experiencing a challenging environment at work.

Background:   Angie has been asked to supervise a team.  Her own supervisor has given her free reign to do what she wants, as long as the team performs at maximum output and efficiency.  In fact, Angie has implemented several procedures which her supervisor doesn’t really believe will increase output.  However, Angie’s methods are so successful she’s being promoted to another team.

I'm at work and it’s my last meeting with my team.  They didn't know it was my last meeting, and it was my opportunity to tell them.  We had our usual meeting with plans and schedules, etc. Afterwards, I met with my supervisor alone.  I showed her three headless mannequins wearing white sweaters.  One had an "S" and it was a Small sweater. One had an "M" and it was Medium. One had an "L" and it was Large.  She sat across from me at a table with the mannequins between us and looked perplexed.

I said, "Thank you for letting me borrow these while I was on your team, but I don't need them anymore."  She laughed, "I didn't lend you these."  I said no, "You gave them to me."  She got mad, "I don't want them." I said, "You have no choice. They're yours."  And I walked away.  End of dream.

This is a warning dream.   Sweaters are worn to keep a person warm and comfortable.  They also function as apparel which can display a logo to let people know how a person feels or thinks… or what they are.  Just as the “S” on Superman’s chest defines who and what he is.  Apparently, Angie is a very honest person.  As team leader, she has been very clear to her supervisor what her intentions are, and how she intends to carry out her responsibilities as team leader.  The sweaters are white, which indicate that her intentions are sincerely for the “good” of the team.

Now that she is leaving, she is ready to return the “team leader” duties to her supervisor.  Because her supervisor has given her free reign to run her team at her own discretion, since the ultimate responsibility isn’t hers, she considers her methods on “loan” from her boss.  This dream suggests that her boss doesn’t want to run things the way Angie has done.  However, since apparently Angie’s way works, her boss will probably be required to continue Angie’s established procedures and methods, despite her personal misgivings.  Her boss just doesn’t want to.  Perhaps she doesn’t have the skills or personality to wear those sweaters comfortably.  Perhaps they just don’t “suit” her.

Fortunately, Angie’s boss doesn’t succeed in “guilting” Angie to remain with the team and continue wearing the sweaters.  Determined to move on, Angie has enough confidence to leave the sweaters with her ex-supervisor.  What the supervisor doesn’t seem to appreciate is that even though Angie is leaving behind her modus operandi (the sweaters), there’s still choice involved because the supervisor can now choose to follow through in a small, medium or large way.  She still has the freedom to determine just how much she has to stay within Angie’s established procedures.

I say, good for you, Angie.  Your dreamer self handled that well.  Congratulations!  Your psyche is guiding you on how to do in life what your dreamer self has done.

As for my fans… go to bed late or go to bed early.  Either way, happy snoozling!