All That Seems Random Friday #2

Uhm, wow it's Friday, again. And it seems way to fast to be here, again.

So let's just dive right in.

Random notes found on my desk this week include:

• Aim to get good first. Then aim to get results. (I no longer agree with this statement. I think results are more important because they offer the necessary feedback and help create the momentum necessary to get good.) Still it is written as I found it on my desk.)
  
• It's inevitable when small shifts begin happening within us regarding money, emotions, health and spirit, these shifts eventually come to affect our relationships.
• Feet of clay. Does anyone have a clue about this and it's mention in the bible?
• You don't want to change what you're doing or how you're doing it, yet you want different results. Crazy!

I'm learning and practicing The Art of Taking ItyBites and I over ate on Thursday. In fact it was the perfect, 'don't do this at home if you want to take ItyBites' moment and it all seemed so random. As if that is possible.

I'm running again, well more like a slow jog that the dogs think is great because now they don't run out of leash as quickly as when I was just walking.

What does that have to do All That Seems Random, you ask?

Weeellll - it's a little weird, even for me. A little back story. I knew of Louise Hay but I avoided her books. I ended up with one a few weeks ago and started reading it, "You Can Heal Your Life" and I was drawn to her List near the end of the book. I read the List. I nodded my head a few times. Okay a whole lot and thought hmm this makes sense. I wonder how true it is?

Now I know.

The idea that ankles and feet have to do with movement and direction. So the fact that I immediately found the breathing process I need to use to run longer and further distances, had me doing what my body wasn't yet trained or prepared to do. Coupled with the fact that I wasn't listening to my body tell me this and also wasn't paying attention to where I was placing my foot because I was so in awe of the fact that I had almost run a half mile non-stop, a rock from the left side of the road crept onto the pavement from it's gravel bed along the edge of the road and slipped itself under my right foot in exactly the right way to cause a level 1 sprain of my right ankle and cause me to limp the remainder of the way home.

Now it seems as though some part of me doesn't want to easily move forward. That could be with the running or 'the thing I've yet to share with you'. It also seems I'm questioning all my movement and my current direction. Plus, I feel as though I'm moving way too fast and I'm not moving fast enough.

How's that for All That Is Random?

What about you? What random events are happening in your life, that aren't really random at all?

All That Seems Random Friday #1

I'm thinking this is the start of a new series for Fridays. Things are slowly looking up as far as finding the right sized bite to take AND last nights unofficial success team Idea Party gave my mom some really great ideas for her poem books and she wants to move on them.

So, lots happening, things changing, plus a suggestion about affirmations from Steve Pavlina looks to be a promising addition to the tools.

I encourage you to watch the whole video. The specific part I'm referring to starts around 5:10 into the video. What he says about the process reaching into the subconscious seems to be working for me, as it's slowly bringing about consciously congruent actions. Mine haven't been up a full week yet, but I like the progress thus far.

The other thing I'm finding is all the little random snippets of things written on random pieces of paper that wind up cluttering my desk by the end of the week. Things like:

• don't let your lizard brain know you want to start a business
• when feeling vulnerable the brain stops working
  
• the clearest, strongest energy always prevails
• respect doesn't mean I do what you say, it means I listen and hear where you're coming from
• so when the time comes you are fully nourished before you ever set foot in the place
• I have not yet provided the value I wish to receive

I'm sure I'll be talking more about some of these as time goes on.

Finally, Simple*ology is still helping me break my goals down into manageable ItyBites and get the work done and it's helping me get exactingly clear on my goals.

I'll be honest, I do the experiment in Lesson 2 pretty regularly. It makes me laugh out loud every time. If you want to find out what I'm talking about, sign up for your own Simple*ology account and see. Or if you're like me and signed up a long, long, long, long, long time ago, but haven't actually done it yet, sign in again and DO IT.

Let's see is there anything else?

Yes!, yes there is. If you like discovering and rating music, I just got turned onto The Sixty One today by Steven Mitchell, whom I met through Plurk, where I haven't been since . . . I'm not even going to embarass myself by telling you.

Okay, that's it for the quiet primere of All That Seems Random Friday #1.

Keep taking those ItyBites.

On Switch or Off Switch

I've been a member of Simple*ology 101 for too many years and counting. This year is the first year I've actually gone through and been doing the lessons. I've made it up to Day 30 as of today.

One of the things you begin doing around day 18 is the Daily Target Praxis which incorporates your three sources of power - Time, Energy & Money into the actions you take on a daily basis. They rotate through each one and today the Energy Praxis showed up.

One of the questions that comes up with the Energy Praxis is what is something you did recently that increased your energy? I thought 'writing' and as soon as I did, the light bulb in the hall blew out.

Now mind you I don't want to connect those two things and even if I did want to connect them, how would I? When I say how I mean in what ways might I connect them if I were going to connect them?

1. No that didn't actually create energy for you, it in fact made you lose energy. Writing is hard for you. (ooo is that a belief surfacing.)
2. Yes, it did create energy for you and this light bulb blowing out right at the moment of the thought means writing helped you create enough energy to impact your environment. (scoff if you will)
   
3. The light bulb blowing out is really just the fact that the fixture is rated for 75watt bulbs and you keep putting 100watt bulbs in it because that seems to be all you ever have available.
4. Hmmp, from the light fixtures point of view. Dammit I hate the fact that my twin light on the other end of the hallway has a freakin' energy saving florescent bulb and I keep getting these crappy too high a wattage incandescent light bulbs. Yeah I'm blowing this sucker riiigt aboout NOW.
5. From the light bulbs point of view, ouch hot too hot ouch too hot ouch too hot hot hot hot hot hot. Aretheyevergoingtoturnmeoff? Hot hot hot hot hot hot. They could turn me off in the daytime. Hot hot hot hot hot awe man I gunnna POP!

Yeah all that if I were actually going to make a connection between my thought about 'writing' and the light bulb blowing out.

Yet what I've realized is that in some ways writing is like a light going out for me. Each and every time I want to write, I find any excuse not to do it.

Ooo, really great thought, "I'll write about..." happens and as soon as it does, my body craves a nap, or some Häagen-Dazs® or any other distraction as far away from writing as possible becomes appealing. Because writing, getting the writing done and sharing the writing somewhere is going to make it hot hot hot ouch, that's too much wattage.

We most certainly don't want to shine a light on these thoughts and we don't want to think about the elephant in the room.

I told you not to think about the elephant.

So the blog is changing. There will still be Ity Bites but they will be my ItyBites, as I tackle this for me, which "light bulb moment", will help my mom and maybe help you too.

You can go to Simple*ology 101 and start your own Daily Target Praxis for free.

Perspective of An Elephant

It's not easy to admit when we have a dream.

It's downright frightening and scary and big and audacious, like an elephant that you've been told you have to eat, no matter what.

The dream never really goes away, although it may morph and bend becoming almost unrecognizable.

The dream might often nag Tap, tap, tap, hey remember me, I'm still here and waiting. Or it might sneak up on you boo and scare the heebie jeebies out of you.

I keep getting these little sparks of insight about my mom and her dream.

I'm feeling ambivalence, uncertainty and frustration. There is some fear mixed in and a whole heap of salty.

The salty is mine for sure. I keep asking myself what the heck I think I'm doing and who gave me the right to do it?

Boy that answer is a mixed bag.

I'm certain, I love a challenge. Big Hairy Audacious Elephant, bring it on.

I keep wondering though, what power do I have to help her make her dream come true?

How much work should I be doing for her dream? Am I in this for real, for the long haul? What is my why?

What is this resistance?

The first thing that comes up is money, definitely. That's my response to her resistance.

The budget is $0.

I keep thinking she doesn't want this badly enough to make it happen.

I keep thinking it's just too big and hairy and audacious.

I keep thinking.

Wait, what is she thinking?

Why not just ask her?

So I'll ask her:

• What does 'being a published poem book author' look like to you mom?
• What feelings do you have when you think about it?
• What things do you see yourself doing as 'a published poem book author' that you don't see yourself doing right now?

This will give me a much better perception of what this looks like to her, because right now, I'm only seeing this from my perspective and our two perspectives are different. I'm not sure what she's looking at but I'm looking at a Publishing Empire, (muwhahaha)

Um wait did I say that out loud?

So this resistance from her is what?

I'm going to ask her, right now and see what she has to say.

Stay tuned. Stay Hungry.

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