Wait… Can you? Will you?
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
— Tao Te Ching
Do I have the patience to wait until the mud settles? Me?? Not a chance. I’ll be the one stomping and splashing about in my murky, muddy mental puddle.
I guess you’d call me a wader not a waiter. I want, I NEED to move, to take action. Waiting frustrates me. I want to “do” something. Something more. Something else. Something completely different. Something soothing. Something mind-numbing. Something brash. Something bold. Something.
Authors Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom (The Power of Flow
) seem to support my inclination toward action… or so I thought when I was sucked in with one of their techniques for increasing the power of flow: Continue reading » Wait Until the Mud Clears
You are here, where do you want to go? Sometimes my impatience with “not knowing” works for me, sometimes it doesn’t. How about you?
Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.
— Oprah Winfrey
Have you sensed a theme in my recent posts? Me too. It’s not that I don’t have goals. I do. It’s that they lack joie de vivre – there’s no exuberance, no juice in them. So, even though I may be feeling the stirrings of new beginnings, my “vision”, my long-view is clouded and I’m left longing for some sparkling clarity! I am here, where do I want to go – I want to know now!
And while I’m counting on myself to create a new vision book that will engage my conscious and unconscious mind into knowing what my dreams really look like, I’m also feeling the equivalent of writer’s block… As I’ve said before, I’m not looking for standard future fare: career, family, retirement, leisure activities – been there, done that, enjoying the fruits of my labors. No, this is a different nut to Continue reading » Where Do You Want to Go? Wait For It…
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