I talked about a visioning process in my last post. I’m gonna spill the beans on that now. If you’re up for a creative experiment, you may want to play too. This is a process. An experiment. A game. It’s play, but it’s real. It’s about how to be the creator/author/maker of your life – deliberately and purposefully – without sacrificing the present moment. How to hold a vision of the future while living happily and effectively in the here and now. First, I want to give credit to Mark Forster for teaching this process in his book, How to Make Your Dreams Come True. These ideas are his. I believe he is still offering How to Make Your Dreams Come True for free on his website: Get Everything Done. You can grab a copy here
And suddenly – or not so suddenly, perhaps drudgingly – it’s 2012. I’ve read a lot of blog posts lately about planning for the new year, how to make resolutions stick, or how to avoid resolutionizing all together. Points of view on the good, bad and ugly of resolution making are all over the map. Personally, I find it difficult to refrain from thoughts that sound something like: “This year I’m going to finally lose that extra weight. This year I’m going to get my business in high gear. This is the year I’m gonna make it all happen!” Yet, in my heart I know these thoughts aren’t real. Wait. Okay, the thoughts are real. I AM thinking them so they’re ‘real’. But I also know these thoughts are fantasies. I would even go so far as to call them self-indulgent fabrications full of hooey. They are something I say to myself to make myself feel better about not being all that I said I wanted to be in
Embrace the Gift!
Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another (a) film(s) by Andrew Zuckerman
I wrote this post two years ago a month before my husband and I moved into our home and two months before we married. It still applies directly to the issues of inspiration. Particularly the inspiration to revise your life at will. I continue to surf the wave of change that is sweeping through my life. Status Report: My daughter and I (and the goldfish and the guinea pig) have moved into our temporary home with my fiancé, my mother has moved into her new apartment (and is STILL waiting for her cable hook-up – AAAARGH!), my dog has moved into her temporary home with a friend of mine, we had the house inspection last Thursday and we are waiting for the seller’s response to our requests, my belongings are stored away in a truck that is parked in a secured area in some unknown location, my fiancé and I are learning how to co-habitate (practice makes perfect) and all of us are negotiating these new territories on a moment by moment basis
I’ve added a new category to the blog. It’s called “Lifestreaming”. Lifestraming is a methodology for Life Design as developed, inspired and created by Jessica Mullen. I was introduced to Jessica yesterday in that inter-web-you-don’t-know-me-but-I-am-following-you-online kind of way when I was surfing around looking for artsy-fartsy printable planner pages. (I was suddenly struck by the urgent need to re-invent my life management system. And I promise to post about all the amazing things I found in the very near future because I think you will absolutely eat it up.) The thing that turns me on about day planners and life management systems is that they are representations of our thoughts about who we are and who we want to be and the systems and philosophies (spiritual and/or secular) that we develop in order to realize our dreams. It’s about producitivity in the sense that we are producing ourselves. Which is vital to the macro: creating your life piece of why The Performance Lab exists
If you have ever made anything you care about (and I’m 100% sure that you have), then you know all of these contradictions are true: Beginning is everything. Finishing is everything. Beginning is difficult. Half-way to done can be impossible. Beginning again is essential. You will never finish. You must finish. Okay, just stop, then. And, once you’ve finished, letting go can be more difficult than beginning. All of this has a lot to do with why The Performance Lab exists
Here’s the deal with inspiration. Inspiration is lovely, but it isn’t reliable. It arrives unexpectedly at odd hours in odd places, but you can’t rely on it and it rarely provides you with enough fuel to carry you through to completion. If you wait for inspiration to arrive before you begin, you may never begin. And if you give up when it disappears, you will give up too soon
This is one of my favorite film monologues: “ometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honor, courage and virtue mean everything; that power and money…money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. And I want you to remember this..that love…true love never dies. Remember that boy…remember that. Doesn’t matter if it is true or not, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in…got that?” Spoken by the character Hub McCann to his nephew, Walter, in the film Secondhand Lions written by Tim McCanlies
Change signals an opportunity to ask big questions, to re-vision and make yourself anew. That’s where my head was over the past two weeks and I found some nifty cool things I want to share with you: The first one is Living in a Human Suit created by Scott Brandon Hoffman aka @TheEntertainer. Scott leads with his sense of humor and has a refreshing way of making you laugh while making you think about the Big Picture. You know things like your life and your purpose and why you might be inhabiting this planet at this point in time
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