However, I will say I picked a good week to give up reading, as I spent two days out of the weekend baking R2D2 cakes for my nephew's birthday party. And, I mean I spent all day. Hence the lack of recent posts. So, with my valuable time not spent reading I have cleaned the house and baked small cakes in the shape of robots. Not quite the high expectations the book gave me. The scary thing is I started back to daily blogging to try to help my thought process, and that doesn't seemed to have helped much either. So now the question is how do I get my mojo back?
I still observe to a point, and I am still inspired by people, music, and events, but not to the degree I once was. I am pretty fully satisfied in my life as of now. In doing my exercises as outlined by The Artist's Way today I had to complete the sentence, The thing I am lacking most in my life right now is... It took me several minutes to come up with an answer. That is a good sign. But now that I think of it, my answer should have been easy. The thing I am lacking most in my life right now is thought.
In my off time I play a cake decorator. These are not my best work, but they were definitely the hardest work thus far.
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D, just a thought but I see a huge disparity between your talk of this book, this system, and most of your recent posts. Your recent revelations seem to mainly be, in one way or another, about letting go, releasing control, broadening your prospective, abandoning expectations...all different hues of the same shade in my mind. But with this, you're taking concepts that by definition are fluid, inspiration and imagination, and trying to modify them through what seems like a very rigid, methodical, almost clinical procedure. You're forcing yourself through things that you're finding to be counterintuitive (not reading).
And that brings me to one of two conclusions, and I'm really not sure which...either (a) you're pushing through all of the stages of something that's not necessarily right for you for the sake of a feeling of completion and accomplishment (definitely something I do...a lot), or (b) you're going through the motions of what's supposed to be helping you, but holding too tightly to the "but I don't like this, it doesn't feel right" sentiment to be able to appreciate the potential breakthrough or growth (something else I manage to do).
But the real question is...can you read this now, or do you have to wait until Thursday? ;-)
Hahaha! nice! I guess it's a little of both. I am mostly doing this becasue everything else in the book has been really eye-opening and rigth on for me. This is the first one I haven't liked. But I didn't want to just not try it because I thought I wouldn't like it. But now after 5 days, I definitely don't which is why I almost gave up last night and just thought either 1) this exercise isn't right for me, or 2) this exercise isn't right for me RIGHT now. I don't know. But I figured since I'd come this far, I might as well give it two more days. Maybe I'll have a huge revelation on the last day. If not, this sucks!
Thank you for your thoughts, I love em!
Those R2D2s are awesome!!
Thanks! I'll make you one when you come back home!
The torture! But the cupcakes look lovely!
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