What do you think: Is the process of “self expansion” only a couples’ thing?
There’s no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
— Charles M. Schwab
Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of – expanding exponentially! Just kidding folks, only my weight is at risk of exponential expansion and that is a topic for a different post!
I got started on this topic of “self-expansion” after reading a NYTimes.com blog article – my first (rather selfish) curiosity was piqued by the comment “take the quiz below to measure how much it expands your knowledge and makes you Continue reading » Self Expansion???
Feel like you’re hanging on for dear life? Then it’s time for the 3-P’s: Perseverance, Persistence and Patience.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
— Kenji Miyazawa
In a recent post, Get Yourself a Kayak, I remarked that:
…even when you feel like you “can’t get there from here”, persevere… continually sweep the horizon looking for a better passageway… and, when such a passage presents itself, persist by going “the next mile”…
Add “patience” to that recommendation and Continue reading » How to Hang On
When “you can’t get there from here” – then what?
Sometimes the unexpected sends you reeling and you suddenly find you can’t get there from here anymore…
Playing around with my new iTouch, I decided to get directions to my son’s base from my home in Maryland. So I typed “Wahiawa, Hawaii.” I got turn-by-turn directions until I hit the coast. Then I was told, “Kayak across the Pacific Ocean entering Hawaii.”
— Cindy Hays
Well, a kayak is certainly one way to cross the Pacific Ocean; but a luxury cruise has more appeal.
However, if there’s white water ahead, then I’d choose Continue reading » Get Yourself a Kayak
When the project is both confusing and demanding, how do you find the personal energy to get from start to finish?
Nil desperandum. (Never despair.)
— Horace
This past week I powered through a very taxing financial project fraught with a multiplicity of confusing tasks, much personal angst and boat-loads of self-doubt and recriminations. As I transitioned from one challenging task to the next I had to fight the urge to flee, to bug-out, to give up, to throw in the towel…
I knew from past experience that if I just kept going all would eventually come together and make sense. So I nursed myself through the “ordeal” with many mini-breaks along the way. My mantra went something like this: Continue reading » Almost There – Don’t Quit Now
How do you deal with your own version of writer’s block?
I am officially STUCK.
I’ve started and stopped seven or more posts… I’ve sat, I’ve been still… and I’ve rocked my ideas, rocked and rolled them, to and fro. To and fro I’ve kneaded them like strings of play dough… And STILL my post page is blankity blankity BLANK! Tossed some… Kept some… And, per Clarissa Pinkola, American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist, I “need do no more.” Obviously SHE didn’t work to a deadline!
I’m solution-searching, looking for a bounce to get me back on schedule. And here’s what I’ve decided to do: I’m going to string together some words of wisdom from OPs (numerous “other people”) and see if I can crochet together the ideas, theirs and mine, into a comforter that will warm my chilled resourcefulness and cover this next post.
So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. — Brenda Ueland
Well now, there’s a dandy and creative word to play with: “moodling”. I’ve been doing my share of it; I’ve endured long, inefficient stretches of dawdling, but the “happy idling” aspect escapes me and my imagination stays stuck. So, let me ask you, how could moodling bolster your resilience?? I suspect the thoughtful answer will probably be, “I suppose it could… let me moodle on it a bit.”
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Continue reading » blankity blankity BLANK STUCK!
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