We can see that being a dreamer of the day is indeed a remarkably beneficial thing to do. So the question is, how do we encourage this dreamlike state, this cocktail of chemicals, even whilst we are awake? Use these three tips to reduce your noradrenaline, boost your dopamine and elevate your acetylcholine.

It’s Monday. You drag yourself out of bed, sleepwalk through showering, brushing your teeth and getting ready for work. You’re now on the tube, surrounded by solemn faces rocking back and forth in the rattling carriage. You sit and think of the problems ahead of you this week: the tough client conversation you need to have, the looming project deadlines and the ever-growing life admin to-do list.

“Could we…” Anna starts before Cathy shouts, “there is nothing you can do here!” Cathy goes on and on. Anna and I nodding in complete agreement at the berating we are receiving on behalf of our masters. It was a face I was very adept at making, smiling and nodding whilst I got shouted at. ‘Yes, you are right, we are assholes.’

Some of us, such as Leonardo da Vinci, are fortunate enough to have an unbroken cycle of passion from childhood to adulthood. Leonardo’s father remarked on how he loved painting and sculpting as a child and as soon as Leonardo was old enough, his father took him to apprentice at a master painter’s studio in Florence. Yet for most of us, we have a prolonged sabbatical from our passion. Life gets in the way. Your hiatus might be 12 months or 20 years. But, what can we do when we lose that spark, that knowledge of what we truly love? We have to search for it. We have to move around the world with our eyes wide open.

Creating a Wildest Dream doesn’t mean fanciful living in the future. It means stopping to reflect, to think, ‘where do I want to go,’ because only then can we know and be truly conscious that the steps we take today, and tomorrow are in that direction.