I just love and adore as the New Year. If you know me then you've heard me say, "you get a do-over". A do-over is a word we use as a kid. If you missed the ball while trying to hit you got another chance. Did not, you get called upon to make-over, and you get to do it again. I love kids because they do not really understand-surplus. You could spend the half hour that threw the ball and make-called surpluses until the succeed. That's pretty smart, asking what you need. Adoro as the New Year, because as a natural make-over.
However, does practice make-surplus in our lives? Many of us practice "do-Against" instead. I looked back my journal entries a year and see many of the same goals, be more compassionate with my family, loose 10 pounds, and so on. The resolutions are great until someone in my family to do something and get so frustrated sign-up or I to get 8 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, then I am face with the rewriting of the same things next year. Does this sound familiar?
So I started to wonder why some really big things I set out to achieve, as the writing of my book, I happen to happen and why not other things less difficult. What I found was I needed some results, steps to take to get there, and concrete aids around me to help me make the changes. Even bigger than the action steps the committee that I decided to change and how to feel about it.
If no specific area in your life that you are wanting to transform allows them to focus on that one thing. This is do-about where it comes in handy. You can change the way you think and feel about this by using their creative thinking of the possibilities. Identify as the problem (one is enough), be very specific and clear what it is. Now go grab some art supplies, magazines, crayons, oil patch, markers, paint, whatever you have in your hand. "Sit down with this problem and ask how I would be different if this problem were resolved, what I was doing, he was thinking or feeling be? Allow yourself to use art materials to express how different your life would feel and if this was no longer an issue. This is his make-over. This is your map to make changes.
My collage hangs over my fireplace as a reminder of what I am choosing to create.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
