I love the feel of things, the texture, the tempature, the sense of energy inherent in the thing I touch. Spend some time to day really focused on your sense of touch. Notice how things feel, like the tickle of the space created between the keyboard keys as your fingers glide across the keys.
Dance (even if you think don’t know how to dance) move to the rythm in your head, feel the music (even if there is none), do it in your living room (or wherever you desire). Dance for at least 30 minutes.
What set of rules are you playing the game of life by? Did you choose the rules you’re working to or did you just accept the ones given to you by other people like your parents, elders etc? How can you win a game if you don’t know what the rules are?
One of the three guardians at the gate to any new adventure is fear. Fear can stop us cold. Fear isn’t a bad thing. It’s our bodies way of helping us prepare for a potential situation. Fear only becomes a problem when it’s an imagined fear that has no basis other than what we conjure up in our heads. But it feels so real that we fail to act because of it. Do something scary today in spite of the fear.
I’ve been thinking and talking a lot about life purpose lately. One of the questions still floating in my mind is do we need a life purpose beyond the obvious of staying alive and surviving? I’m on the fence with this one. I’m not convince we have to have a life purpose. Perhaps what drives us in search of a life purpose is our need to feel that our life has meaning.
I have only just started playing around with the word ambition. It has a certain, power, a certain driving energy behind it that compells you to act. Having an ambition is like having a supercharged goal you actively want to pursue beyond all costs. Just having goals is not good enough. Goals tend linger without ambition. Add some ambition to your goals and watch them ignite.
Did you get the prize? If so was it worth it? If not do you regret it?
Joseph Campbell wrote that mythology is the study of mankind’s one great story and that our search is is to find our place in the drama. Mythology is the playground of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. If we view life as a poem and see ourselves participating in a poem, we will fill in accord with our universal self. Tell your story in the form of a poem, make it a sonnet or an epic, or just free flowing verse, you choose.
What have you been putting off starting? Don’t wait for tomorrow to come, start it today. Begin with a small step, anything that get’s you going, moving toward doing the thing you’ve been telling yourself you will do one day. If you’re not careful, one day will never come.
You can’t control your thoughts only your responses to them. If you try to suppress them you will attach significance to them and become distracted with the result that your thoughts will control you.
All of life is important and deserves one's full presence and attention. There are no ordinary moments.
This is a blog about doing new things, small things that encourage you to learn more about yourself and the world around you.
Each day I'll post a new task for you to do. Complete the task and share your experience in the comments section.
Yours truly,
Clay
