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My friend Andrea Lee is making the late Thomas Leonard’s work available again. Thomas’s thinking stimulated my own creativity for several wonderful years. Here is a short piece about The Zen of Perfect that makes perfect sense to me when I am in the right frame of mind. When I am in the wrong frame of mind it reminds me that there is another way to look at the world. Enjoy! http://www.bestofthomas.com/blog/zenofperfect/
[These comments about What If You Stopped…? came in by email, so they can't show up in the Comments section]: Beautiful, Laurie! Love ya! Donna ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear Laurie -
My new resolution is to write something before I read my e-mail. I made this resolution during the recent CAM (Conversation Among Masters) Conference, when Brian Johnson challenged us with two questions: 1. What is one thing to start doing, which would have the most positive influence on your life right now? I invite you to answer those questions for yourself. When I answered them and started thinking about the implications of my answers I learned a lot about myself. My answers were to stop reading my e-mail first thing in the morning and to start writing more frequently. So here goes… I am now more aware of how I measure my contribution to the world beyond the mutual contribution I make in all my direct, personal relationships. My contribution is the writing I do that helps others to change and grow without my direct presence. I measure contribution by the standard Eric Berne proposed 40 years ago: “is it good for the infant mortality rate?” To me that standard means is what I am doing ultimately contributing to a world in which more babies that are born alive stay alive. * Educating and coaching people about how to have important conversations is key for me. In order to do this I need to become more proficient with tools that will get my message out into the world. I’ll be contributing what I’m thinking about to two different blogs or perhaps three and my goal is to publish at least twice a week. This is a creative production goal rather than an outcome goal. Outcome goals don’t work well for me. They don’t leave enough room to be surprised and I often surprise myself. It’s a goal of staying in a creative tension so that I stay productive. This is how I will stay in integrity with myself. I need to stay in the creative tension instead of drifting off into “deserving retirement” or just grandmothering. I do enjoy my freedom to explore and travel and I adore my grandchildren. Both of those are fine in their place, but they are not enough for me. I need to stay creative and contributing in order to feel fully alive and happy. That’s a lot of insight from answering two questions. I admit I was in a very stimulating environment where I was surrounded by other master coaches all challenging each other to live their dreams. I hope you answer the questions for yourself, take time to think about the implications of your answers and share what you learn. You can post your answers and comments here. If you prefer, send them directly to me and I’ll put them up on the blog for you.
You can register HERE for some fabulous free tele-seminars with a mindset of joy, gratitude, authenticity and inspiration celebrating the holidays. Check them out. It includes Deepak Chopra, Marci Shimoff, Gay Hendricks, and many others. http://maestropath.com/holiday My daughter sent a note saying if I was going to talk about getting organized I should tell you about NAPO, The National Association of Professional Organizers. There is an organizer search function to find help with your organizing needs. Enjoy!
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Dec 03
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Change happens. I just revisited a shockingly orderly storeroom in my home. Just 24 hours ago I recruited my husband and my visiting son to excavate 20 years worth of stacked boxes and precarious piles of miscellaneous treasures.
By the time we finished we had a car trunk full of items to deliver to a donation center, several huge boxes of papers to recycle, a pile of trash and many miscellaneous items related to the obsolete technology of developing film in a darkroom.
Some of the choices were easy to make. We asked questions like,
Other choices were more difficult.
Photography was a hobby shared by my husband and my dad, who bequeathed his (then ancient) darkroom equipment to us over 40 years ago. A few pieces have sentimental value. I remember using them while helping my father in his darkroom when I was a child. Yet they have no place in my life now. We haven’t decided how to dispose of those things yet.
A question we didn’t ask is why many of the things we saved for so many years were important in the first place. Why did we save them?
I think I saved most things because I expected to use them again. Then I didn’t, and it took more time to make decisions about disposing of them than it did to just let them accumulate. That’s my style. I’m not proud of it. I have a computer full of files that could be pruned — but they’re even less visible than what was in the storeroom.
How about you? Would you feel better if you released some of the things you intended to use again? Or is it better to just keep moving forward and leave the clutter hidden away until you are moved to address it?
I don’t have an answer for you. What I suggest is to make a choice and relax. What we did do makes me feel lighter as we move into the busyness of the holiday season. And I’m not worrying at all about what I haven’t done yet.
I wish you and the people you love a joyful and relaxed holiday season.
Also — If you are having trouble dealing with the holidays, watch for a blog post in a few days. My colleague, Dr. Joe Rubino,
created a free 45-minute audio recording called 7 Steps to Soaring Self-Esteem. You can claim it now at http://cli.gs/V8WdP2 if you like, or wait for the post that explains it in more detail.
It’ll be a great way for you to start the New Year.
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Oct 19
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Brief excerpt from a conversation with a client:
Me: So you didn’t live up to your ideals.
Client: That’s right.
Me: Do you think most people live up to their ideals?
Client: I guess they don’t.
Me: Most of us develop our ideals long before we encounter reality.
Client: Hmmmmm
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Aug 05
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Brief excerpt from a conversation with a client:
Me: So you didn’t live up to your ideals.
Client: That’s right.
Me: Do you think most people live up to their ideals?
Client: I guess they don’t.
Me: Most of us develop our ideals long before we encounter reality.
Client: Hmmmmm
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Apr 25
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These are my posts covering my trip to Spain from packing on April 5 to the morning after on April 25. Read from the bottom to the top. Follow me on Twitter. http://twitter.com/LaurieWeiss
