I was thinking today on wish lists and to do lists. They are both the same type of life-happening lists, only that on the to do list we may have things that we don't like and really want to do. Also the one on the to-do list are more urgent then the one on the wish list. Anyways I was thinking, what am I waiting for to put all the wish things on the to do list? What's stopping me to have it all now and what's in the way?
First that came to mind was of course the classing excuse: no time and no money. Aren't this the big stoppers in our lives? If I would only have the time or money to do it... I noticed thou that actually those are not the cause for me not having my wish list on the to do list. If I have to fix my car, like my break just starting whistling on me the other day, the time and money becomes an non issue instantly. I got to fix my car, so I just made time and I just made a budget for it. Just like that. What I sow was that what had me create a space for that to happen was simply of matter of prioritizing as a thought in my head, and not the time/money situation as I thought it is.
If it's just a matter of creating an urgent priority thought in my head, then I could basically create that for any item on my wish list, couldn't I? I could. So what's in the way is not really the lack of time and money, but rather the reasoning thought that I lack those. It's not real, as when my car started making a noise, the time and money become available right away without even further consideration. So I already had the time and money but I related to them as they are not accessible and made that be my reality.
Are the reasoning thoughts really what has us not get the life we'd love to live? How do I create an urgency for the wish list to become my daily to do list? Does my car needs to break to have it taken care of? DO I need to reach 200pounds to seriously start considering dropping the extra weight that it's been piling up? Do I have to be really truly miserable at work to leave it for my dream job? Do I need to run myself down to create the urgency to build me up?
Obviously this is the way I've been operating. Does it "need" to be like that? Well, not really! There's no "need" to be any other way but what I choose to. To me, it's quite free-ing to realize that I do have the time and money if I would only relate to something as being demandingly urgent.
So what I'm up to next is to bring that to my wish list, and make a priority out of creating a life to passionately and madly fall in love with...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Lady Gaga's interview opened up a new mental space for me
I watched an interview last night with Lady Gaga. Now this is not something that I would normally do, but I was looking to watch something different. Well I must say it generated thoughts for me that literary created a new reality to live in. I felt deliberated from old mind patterns and tried on new thoughts.
"I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it’s free
I want your love"
The way she was explaining lyrics like this opened up something new for me. To me what she was saying on loving wholly was about expanding and taking ownership on the way we see the world. I got present that I have sooooo many pre-fabricated ideas, like how love is suppose to look, how life is suppose to turn and how things are suppose to run. Do you know what I mean? I really sow how many of my thoughts are not original but rather "borrowed" from my surroundings.
What if I create a world where there's no prerequisite expectations on "how to" love? A reality in which I could love even the parts that you think no one would ever love about you, the ugly and the disease? It's pretty much loving unconditionally, isn't it? What if I would create my thoughts to be empowering me at all times and in any circumstances?
I am the creator of my own occurring world after all, "ain't" I?
"I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it’s free
I want your love"
The way she was explaining lyrics like this opened up something new for me. To me what she was saying on loving wholly was about expanding and taking ownership on the way we see the world. I got present that I have sooooo many pre-fabricated ideas, like how love is suppose to look, how life is suppose to turn and how things are suppose to run. Do you know what I mean? I really sow how many of my thoughts are not original but rather "borrowed" from my surroundings.
What if I create a world where there's no prerequisite expectations on "how to" love? A reality in which I could love even the parts that you think no one would ever love about you, the ugly and the disease? It's pretty much loving unconditionally, isn't it? What if I would create my thoughts to be empowering me at all times and in any circumstances?
I am the creator of my own occurring world after all, "ain't" I?
decluttering my to do list
I just had a thought today, that I'd wish to finish everything that I proposed myself to do by the end of the year. You know, anything from painting the kitchen, redecorating the bedroom, selling some old stuff or losing 20 pounds - to seeing a good opera or throwing that cool awsome party. Anything really, that could physically happen within 50 days. All those things on the to do list that are moving from one day to the other, or get dropped between the lines.
What are the things that you always wanted to do but you're keep procrastinating on? I invite you to join me and pledge to a 50 day journey to complete 100 things from the "to do list" by the end of the year. What difference would it make to you if you could cross out 100 things from your to do or wish list?
Well I can tell you one thing, would be a hell out of a de-clutter to get rid of any of these annoying things that are keep popping out in my mind to have them done. Would definitely clear up some emotional and mental space!
I'll start my 100 things list in random order here:
1. renewing my Romanian passport (requires traveling to Washington)
2. going to see the Dali show at High Museum of Art
3. painting up the living room
4. cleaning the carpet
5. throwing an art party where you get to paint and take home your own painting
6. getting tickets for the Nutcracker
7. posting unwanted stuff for sale on craigslist or eBay done!
8. getting a bookshelf for my growing collection
9. fixing my car in the works!
10. organizing my office file by file in the works!
11. putting my kids on in ballet class/ gym class
12. creating artworks for all my frame collection
13. organizing my closet half way there!
14. dropping 15 pounds
15. getting a new bed!!!!!
16. writing 10 poems and joining a read aloud group on meetup.com
17. designing new business cards
18. understanding my daughter's DSI game (reading the manual, oh I suck at electronics)
19. creating a shopping cart for my art website to sell my paintings in the works!
20. calling my old friend to catch up
21. start using my gym subscription
22. visiting a chiropractor for my back pain
23. installing the software for my mini digital camera
24. reinstalling the operating system to my desktop
25. getting a new hammock
26. painting my kitchen cabinets inserts with chalkboard paint
27. getting a new lamp switch for my lamps
28. going on a bicycle ride with my kids
29. finish up the last book I've started reading
30. organizing my computer files
to be continued...
What are the things that you always wanted to do but you're keep procrastinating on? I invite you to join me and pledge to a 50 day journey to complete 100 things from the "to do list" by the end of the year. What difference would it make to you if you could cross out 100 things from your to do or wish list?
Well I can tell you one thing, would be a hell out of a de-clutter to get rid of any of these annoying things that are keep popping out in my mind to have them done. Would definitely clear up some emotional and mental space!
I'll start my 100 things list in random order here:
1. renewing my Romanian passport (requires traveling to Washington)
2. going to see the Dali show at High Museum of Art
3. painting up the living room
4. cleaning the carpet
5. throwing an art party where you get to paint and take home your own painting
6. getting tickets for the Nutcracker
7. posting unwanted stuff for sale on craigslist or eBay done!
8. getting a bookshelf for my growing collection
9. fixing my car in the works!
10. organizing my office file by file in the works!
11. putting my kids on in ballet class/ gym class
12. creating artworks for all my frame collection
13. organizing my closet half way there!
14. dropping 15 pounds
15. getting a new bed!!!!!
16. writing 10 poems and joining a read aloud group on meetup.com
17. designing new business cards
18. understanding my daughter's DSI game (reading the manual, oh I suck at electronics)
19. creating a shopping cart for my art website to sell my paintings in the works!
20. calling my old friend to catch up
21. start using my gym subscription
22. visiting a chiropractor for my back pain
23. installing the software for my mini digital camera
24. reinstalling the operating system to my desktop
25. getting a new hammock
26. painting my kitchen cabinets inserts with chalkboard paint
27. getting a new lamp switch for my lamps
28. going on a bicycle ride with my kids
29. finish up the last book I've started reading
30. organizing my computer files
to be continued...
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