Archive for May, 2009
I'm off on my holidays for half term this week – and doing lots of playing!
Have been totally inspired by my Big Leaper John Williams' free teleclass.
www.freestylesuccess.com/gofreestyle/playmasterclass.html
I met John when he invited me to talk at his Scanner's nights (creative, entrepreneurial people who have a million ideas and want to do them all – I felt like I was on drugs when I went to my first Scanners events. Scanners are so my tribe – fun, inspirational, creative, kind, lovely………) I adore John and what he is creating and his whole philosophy.
"Passion is a magentic thing!" he says. Too right.
When I first started on my Big Peace journey, I thought it might be a bit boring – white clothes and a kind of white, blank mind where all we did was focus on Uranus. But what I've discovered is that it is one of the most passionate journeys of my life. I feel alive, connected, loved and in love – with my dog, my son and life….I feel passionate. Oh yes. And magnetic? I've started to attract wonderful stuff…book deals, beautiful clients best friendships, great people into my life.
John is an amazing and inspirational client. I dare you to listen to his teleclass and not get passionate.
I'm off on my holidays for half term this week – and doing lots of playing!
Have been totally inspired by my Big Leaper John Williams' free teleclass.
http://www.freestylesuccess.com/gofreestyle/playmasterclass.html
I met John when he invited me to talk at his Scanner's nights (creative, entrepreneurial people who have a million ideas and want to do them all – I felt like I was on drugs when I went to my first Scanners events. Scanners are so my tribe – fun, inspirational, creative, kind, lovely………) I adore John and what he is creating and his whole philosophy.
"Passion is a magentic thing!" he says. Too right.
When I first started on my Big Peace journey, I thought it might be a bit boring – white clothes and a kind of white, blank mind where all we did was focus on Uranus. But what I've discovered is that it is one of the most passionate journeys of my life. I feel alive, connected, loved and in love – with my dog, my son and life….I feel passionate. Oh yes. And magnetic? I've started to attract wonderful stuff…book deals, beautiful clients best friendships, great people into my life.
John is an amazing and inspirational client. I dare you to listen to his teleclass and not get passionate.
title of Big Leaper John Williams - who has
just got a big publishing deal for his book last week.
- put creativity first
- do what comes naturally to you and what you most enjoy
- experiment and explore
- follow your instincts even if you don't know quite where they're leading you
- be responsive to feedback – from the world outside and also from inside of
you - realise that genuine passion for your work is better than any marketing
trick - see making money as part of the game
- ditch your career plan and your 5 year goals and starting to create the
experience you want to have in life right now
John is so
singing The Big Peace song!
http://www.freestylesuccess.com/gofreestyle/playmasterclass.html
P.S can we all send big peace vibes to my dog Oscar. He's about to have the snip.
We've just completed our second Big Peace retreat www.bigpeaceretreat.co.uk – which we held at a beautiful hotel near Lewes in Sussex and it was wonderful. I love meeting you all and diving more deeply into the practices that will bring us peace.
It strikes me again how dynamic this process is (I thought the Big Peace would be about floating round in white clothes, with angels and birds tweeting in the background) But no! It's funny, human, brave and messy.
The Big Peace is about accepting all parts of our humaness – the dark and the light. One of the great things about a retreat like this is that we hear that other people also have an 'inner pessimist' – just as mean and ugly as ours – who beats us about the head with their stories of gloom and doom. And I love the 'aha' moments when we realise we have choice. That the inner pessimist is not real – we're making it all up and that if you can make up that vicious soundtrack, you can choose to make up a new, supportive, nurturing script for your life.
And ah! Bisto, it's so much more peaceful – and fun!
Here's an exercise we did on the retreat. Try these questions and create your own mini-retreat.
- What
is it you want to change?
- What
is the thinking behind your current behaviour?
- What
are the costs of that thinking?
- What
would your life be like without that thinking and behaviour?
- What
would you have to think differently to create new behaviour?
- What
actions can you take if you acted as if this new thinking was true?
- Are
you willing to let go of your old thinking and willing to embrace your new
thinking?
- Paint
me a picture of what your life will be like with your new
behaviours/thinking in place?
- What
do you commit to DO DIFFERENTLY to make this thinking a default setting in
your life?
- Paint
me a picture of what your life will be like on one year from hence with
this new thinking in place?
Let me know how you get on with these.
xxx
woman to psychotherapist (as you do!) She has just launched her new business
http://www.mindbodybaby.co.uk/- how to increase your chances of being
pregnant the natural way.
I'm pretty passionate about the mind/body connection and what we can create in our lives when we point our thoughts in the right direction. This must be the ultimate focus though – a baby! I love what Tracey has created.
CDs to another client of mine a month ago and I just heard today – she's
pregnant! Ah, Big Leaping babies!!!
on creating a business that she is passionate about. Her inspiring vision has
now translated into a service that can also change so many of our lives. Now
that's what I call a great big leap.
launched her website www.bumpacupuncture.com
Katie's fantasitc site.
June. If you wish to get one to one coaching over the next six months with me,
click on the link below. http://www.thebig-leap.com/big_leap_products/big_leap_golden_ticket.phtml
Change Your Self Image with our guest speaker Nicky Hambleton Jones of 10 Years
Younger Fame. If you wish to sign up for priority notification, sign up here www.biglifeevents.co.uk
So The Artist's Way – how was that for you? 12 weeks (13 for some) of wailing in our morning pages, the best Artist's dates ever (what was your favourite? Mine was falling asleep with my dog in the sun by a river. I came over all Thomas Hardy, but luckily not D H Lawrence…or perhaps not?)
What has worked for you? What hasn't? What are you taking away from this process?
And what next?
One of our big leapers has requested that she wants to keep using the Big Leap chat room to meet and work though the Artist Way some more - you're so welcome!
Thank you so much for taking this journey with me.
x
We're at the end of our Artist's Way journey together. How was it for you?
Here is what Sue Nun has to say (www.careerinspiration.co.uk) Again, I resonated so strongly with so much of what Sue is saying here:
The email
from Suzy asking me to write the week 12 blog took me
by complete surprise. I bought a new
laptop part way through the 12 weeks (gorgeous and shiny and bright red) lost
all my favourites and (sorry to admit this) haven’t
been following all the blogs and somehow not only did
I not realize I was writing this one but somehow I did week 12 two weeks ago
(how did that happen? I’m always ahead of myself somehow). When I finished week
12 I was so happy with the small steps I’d taken that I have gone back to week 1
and started again….so on getting Suzy’s email I’ve gone back to Chapter 12 to
remember what I did at that stage.
Task 1
‘write down any resistance fears etc’, well my biggest fear is writing and here
I am having to write a blog. Last week I
also went to a Nick Williams Inspired Entrepreneur’s club where he was talking
about becoming an expert. I went as I am setting up a company to run workshops
for women returners to make inspiring career choices
and gain confidence in returning to work.
Nick said that if you want to be seen as an expert you have to ‘be seen’;
this is definitely another big resistance of mine, we had to go round the room
and say to everyone in the room “I’m here to be seen” and the other person said
“I see you”. It was incredibly powerful,
but also incredibly difficult for me.
Although I’ve always harboured a crazy desire
to be a weather girl or be on breakfast telly or
something similar, exposure seems very scary to me. So thanks Suzy for giving
me the opportunity to conquer my two biggest areas of fear….well apart from sky
diving and anything that involves heights.
In the
same download of emails as Suzy’s I received one from my local newspaper asking
for a press release and a deadline of 10th May for a local magazine
that I have decided I need to write a publicity article for. So not only have I got to do this but then
I’ve got two more things to write; if anyone has tips on how to write a press
release all advice is very welcome. I
guess that’s more than enough synchronicity for this week forcing me to confront
my fears. Week 12 also talks about tests
coming up when we are just about to ‘blast off’ and this week I’ve been
inundated with work, the non-creative type that pays the bills but that also
stops me developing my new business and saps all my energy and joy. It really feels like its pulling me back –
and so far I’ve failed the test and haven’t said ‘no’ I don’t want that type of
work anymore. What that means is no time
to write my publicity material or to have fun.
But maybe I haven’t completely failed the test as I’ve chosen to write
this tonight, instead of doing my bread and butter work and hopefully this small
step will lead to more progress.
I find it
interesting where our fear comes from, I’m sure my fear of writing was getting
bad feedback at school and being inhibited about my spelling and grammar – the
fear even now of someone taking a red pen to this piece of writing. I definitely don’t think I can write – and so
those messages really get in the way.
The messages we tell ourselves are so powerful aren’t they, I’m great at
helping other people tackle their inner chatter to become more confident, but I
have to admit my chatter still needs a lot of taming. It’s also interesting that my first response
on getting Suzy’s email was to log on and read everyone else’s
contributions. I stopped myself though,
I realized that it might turn up my inner chatter – as I’m really great at
negative comparisons ‘I don’t write as well as them /I’m not as interesting/
blah, blah’ and thought that if I had
read everyone else’s I would have just bottled out. So when this gets posted, I might take a
peep.
I guess in
week 12, as it was the last week, I also reflected on the journey the book has
taken me on. It’s been all small steps, but cumulatively they have made a huge
difference. I have been doing my pages and I’ve definitely started having more
fun. However I’ve got to own up to failing to have artist dates on my own,
having a 4 year old and working makes it trickey, but
I have painted watercolours while my son has also
painted and I’ve had a Mum’s only date to do some pottery and we’ve got another
one in a few weeks time. I’ve made pastry for the first time in years and
planted a load of seeds for an allotment that I’ve just got. I’ve also dusted off and re-hung a beautiful
watercolour that I watched an amazing painter, Adrian
Hemming, paint on Skyros back in 1998 (those of you
who join Suzy there this year will have an amazing time) and I’ve bought a fab necklace of crocheted flowers made by Jenny Stacey,
contacted her through her web-site and then met her for an artist’s coffee. All these things I wouldn’t have done without
the book and I definitely feel more spontaneous, creative and centred, as well as more spiritually alive. It’s been a
great journey, which is why I’ve returned to the beginning again, I hope you
will too.
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