I'm doing 42 things
In the middle of the night it dawns! That wasn’t the intro. It was the backstory. It did get written – the 1st draft, but didn’t include a couple of key points. Duh. What the heck was I thinking?
inner guru's Life List
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1. Do Spiritual Exercises Everyday
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2. Lose Flab, return to Fab!
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3. Embrace the Sweetness of doing Nothing – everyday
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4. Trust the universe
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5. Rest, refresh, reclaim my time:) JA - MA 2012 (Finally!)
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6. Make Art … every week!
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7. Complete!!! 12 of a 1000 Projects, Products, WorkShops, PlayShops, Events, Charts, Calendars, Forms, Booklets, Kits …
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8. Develop a treasure box of tools to help people 'Love who they are and what they do'
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9. Help heal unhappiness with Bach Flower Therapy: 100 free-for the-asking, blogs/comments, barter & client sessions – 2012
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10. Practice Yoga, twice weekly, 17 weeks
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11. ReKindle Romance: wildly, often and with abandon
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12. Act on the cues from my best self
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13. (Help) Blow the whistle about Cat food Fraud
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14. Publish an eBook
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15. Rebuild our 10% savings account
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16. Design and build my Dream house
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17. Learn to handmake clay tiles
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18. Learn to speak Spanish
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19. Collect coins, stamps, maps & postcards from around the globe, to embellish the NW door
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20. Drive confidently through the Rocky mountains
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21. Create multiple streams of income
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22. design & plant gardens: healing, edible, community – including fruit & nut trees & herbs
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23. Take Piano Lessons
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24. Partner with bees, bats, birds & butterflies to steward the land on my urban plot
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25. Improve my website
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26. make a short film
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27. use my telescope
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28. paint a huge blackboard on one of my walls
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29. Make 12 cloth napkins – Thanksgiving 2012
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30. Host a vegetarian thanksgiving
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31. travel to Spain
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32. Make another Quilt – the heart one
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33. design a spirit deck
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34. Make a mosaic
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35. Learn photoshop
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36. Make a stained glass / art glass window
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37. Restore my eyesight naturally
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38. Join or create a Writers' Group/Workshop
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39. ReOrganize and Purge Web Bookmarks
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40. Plant a Square Foot Garden (SFG) 2012
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41. Take a class
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42. Send ThankYou, Birthday, Encouragement, Love Notes/Cards by SnailMail all 2012
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How I did it
It made me
I can do anything! 
How I did it: I've been denying and running from this particular fear (a specific surgery) for nearly a decade. Coming to the point of facing it required a concerted effort and big plan to overcome big, debilitating fear. When i began my 'self-directed boot camp' I was almost frozen. What saved me, initially, was remembering that the most effective antidote to fear is action.For me, this was not only a physical issue, but a long-stand… Read how I did it…
It made me
interconnected
How I did it: Since I was 10 years old I've lived the Pay it Forward philosophy. It started when I wrote my 1st book. To be candid, I don't even remember what the book was about, but I wrote it and made hundreds of construction paper covered copies and sold them for real money. During the distribution of my little 8 page book 'help' came out of nowhere. The money to print it appeared. It sold itself. Everybody that was approached, bought one or more.I… Read how I did it…
It made me
crazy then proud
How I did it: I'd thought about quitting, but never took myself seriously. In fact, I almost made the conscious choice of not letting myself know that i was sometimes, once-in-a-while toying with the idea of quitting.Even though I was trying not to, the Gods were listening and provided the purr-fect motivation. I'd pretty much stopped smoking inside when I moved to BC and in with my 'goodie-two-shoes' (never smoked) cowboy. In the winter of 2002 I was … Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
It is mapped! The mulling during the development of the new eBook came together. like a no-brainer, at 6:30 this morning. And I was compelled to write the intro. Though I am positively delighted by that now. At the time I struggled with the choices.
Do I seize the inspiration or try to hold on to it while attending to the grounding of my morning disciplines? Tough choice.
Now, it’s worktime and I haven’t done anything except attend to the catpeople. (So begins the wrangling with the little self.) Part of me wants to reward myself for the ‘brilliance’ of the eBook intro that I just wrote with bon-bons, movies, taking a breeze-out …. Another part insists on getting to the walking, the morning pages, the spiritual exercises … (I don’t wanna!!! I want to, no I deserve to ‘blow off’ whatever I want … and [yuck] pay the price … tomorrow.
What to do?
The discipline to work, and work hard, turned out really well yesterday. In fact, (after fighting with myself for a good hour) I was actually able to stay with the work-work (versus the play-work) for nearly 6 hours – contentment.
I recently found a quote that says it:
Paralyze resistance with persistence
– Woody Hayes
Worked for me!:)
