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Working on Stuff

It’s like talking to a wall.

January 27, 2010

Okay, fine, it is talking to a wall. I had my first dialogue with one. An inner wall. I think our talk went surprisingly well. My wall was about as unyielding and imposing as you’d expect. And still, I think we somehow managed to come out of our chat on the same side. My side.
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I shouldn’t need help. But I’m allowed to want it.

January 21, 2010

I do this thing where I resist structure because I should be disciplined enough to just do what I need to do without extra support or boundaries. That stuff is for wimps, right? Also, restriction scares me.
Just do it.
Sometimes I get spun out with online distractions and time wasters. I find myself on this crazed [...]

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I’m starting a collection. Of internal stuff.

January 10, 2010

So awhile ago I decided to try this thing where I’d pick something that was bugging me to pay attention to for the week. Maybe a pattern of something I was doing, or not doing. Or something I was avoiding. Or something that was triggering some icky feeling. Something generally sucky.
And then without really giving [...]

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Dear 2010. Or, Resolution Rejection Meets Personal Ad.

December 27, 2009

Last week I wrote a guest post for Christine Kane’s blog about my 2009 word of the year, which of course got me thinking about 2010. I’m a sucker for a fresh start. That clean, pure, fresh, supple (yes, supple!) feeling I get at the start of a brand-spanking new year. Ahhhh.
But I would also consider [...]

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Apparently the internet wants to give us advice

December 21, 2009

So on Monday’s I’m doing this pattern ritual thing where I pick a pattern to sort of notice that week. Or pay attention to. Or try to notice and pay attention to. And then I pretty much forget about it.
But for some as-of-yet undiscovered reason, just the thinking about noticing and writing about thinking about [...]

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You’re not the boss of me. Anymore.

December 14, 2009

Back for the Monday ritual of picking just one pattern or stuck spot to notice this week. A ritual that hopefully creates a neat container to work on our stuff.
The Force.
Last week I wanted to pay attention to my perception of some scary external force; the one I turn to as an approval-seeking puddle to see if [...]

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Tired *and* happy? Impossible!

December 7, 2009

Last week I wrote about establishing a Monday ritual to create a container to work on our stuff. And why I think it’s helpful to try noticing and paying attention to just one thing.
That pattern…
I was hesitant to try the whole ritual thing this past week because I’m traveling. Being ungrounded is all the more [...]

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Mondays are for… pattern perusal?

November 30, 2009

I’ve been toying with the idea of using Mondays on the blog to name and talk about a particular pattern or container of stuff (like, the internal kind) that I want to pay attention to for the week. Part of it is an impulse to introduce more ritual into my life, or more conscious ritual [...]

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I have free will. At least today.

November 19, 2009

I have the weirdest sense this morning of being able to do or be or create anything I want. I don’t know how to explain it, which is a pretty lame excuse since that’s kind of what you do when you write something for other people.
One weird thing (and there are many) about this sensation [...]

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Wherever I go, there I am

November 10, 2009

Wherever you go, there you are. A friend mentioned this idea on a mastermind call over the weekend, and it fit perfectly with some things I’ve been thinking about lately. In the newsletter I sent out Friday* I wrote about a little creativity experiment I’m doing during the month of November. I committed to sewing [...]

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