“If I didn’t care what people thought, I’d…”
I’d write on the blog about what I’m thinking about with Touchwood and life. I’d share this North Star stuff, the ever-changing plans and dreams, different projects I’m working on.
The above sentences are from my notebook as part of an exercise from the book Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the life you were meant to live. There are a series of sentences along the lines of “If I were sure I’d succeed, I’d…” and “If I had the nerve, I’d…”.
So I dutifully wrote down my answers only to reach the end of the exercise where the author, Martha Beck, says:
Now I’d like you to choose one of your answers that is neither illegal nor physically dangerous and do it. Right now, before you’re sure that it’s fail-safe, or acceptable, or risk-free. When you’re finished with that item, pick another one, and do that one too. Yes, I know you’ll be breaking the Rules. I don’t care. The needs for certainty and permission are electric fences in your mind. Which would be worse: whizzing all over them or permanently forfeiting all of the things you wrote on the list above?
What? I have to actually do what I just wrote?
So here I am, writing, a part of me convinced that no one’s reading this anyway because it’s so self-indulgent. So New Agey.
But then I think “Hey, it’s the New Year, 2010, and it’s the time to do things that scare us.”
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Tags: happiness, personal development