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Today I had one desire. .
That desire was simple; it was the desire to, at least for a few days, li vein a clean house.
I was sitting in the garden on the first day of September. It was a lovely ambient moment, sipping pearl flower tea and telling Fosbury in a rather humorous way about my awful not-very-humorous pregnancy mood swings (think swinging axe/ guillotine) when suddenly there was an almighty BANG and a riccoshading explosion of glass.
Life Design Action: Celebrate National Straight Talking Day
Requires: Words, courage and an opportunity (we make our own opportunities)
Does not require: Angst, aggression, bottling up, holding in or wedge building
Life Design Action: Break Your Groove Grr
Requires: A Groove Marathon (see below the below bit)
Does not require: 1960s flower power.
(Why is it that sometimes Doing What You Should Do is so easy? And why is it that other times Doing What You Know You Should Do is so hard? Sometimes you are frolicking and splashing in a beautiful pool of chlorinated Doingness shouting “woo-hoo! I’m doing it!”, then other times you are sitting on the edge of the pool wishing you could jump in yet are glued to the side getting goose-bumps. What is this annoying Not Doing What We Want To thing? And how can we break it?)
Life Design Attitude: Keep your good ideas close and your bad ideas closer
Requires: Some good ideas and some bloody awful ideas
Does not require: Idea poverty
Some ideas are brilliant. Take the invention of the needle. Did you know that the invention of the needle was as profound as the invention of the wheel? When primitive people invented the needle, it meant that furs could be sewn together. Until the needle, primitive people were constantly having to hold onto to their togs. Now their hands were free so that they could get on with other things – such as carving the wheel. So, the needle = good idea.
Other ideas are not so brilliant. Like Genetically Modified Food. Enough said.
It is up to us to be idea savvy, not only with the ideas being presented to us by peers, government or the 5 o’clock news, but also the really stupid ones that we come up with all by ourselves. To do this can save a lot of time and trouble.
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Life Design Action: Find a role model who suits your need then mimic her moves exactly
Requires: Stealth, a watchful eye and ability to coordinate your movements with another
(Role models are the ultimate shiz. As children, our mothers and fathers and other influential adults serve to sculpt our beliefs as to what is possible about the world. These beliefs are what then allow us to push through to greater things or remain limited through playing small. Before Rodger Bannister ran the 4 minute mile, doctors and scientists suggested that such a feat was humanly impossible. They went as far as to say that the human body would not survive the challenge. However, once Bannister smashed the four minute mile, people hitting that same time All Over The Globe. Why? Once Bannister showed it was possible, the human mind believed it was possible and people aimed for the goal and hit it. Bannister was a role model and role models create internal models which can then be manifested.)
Life Design Action: Invent an International *Something* Day.
Requires: you and the Thing
Does not require: excuses or stories of any kind.
So, let’s us face some facts. Ready?
IDEA ABOUT IDEAS ONE
I believe that our lives are enriched or depleted by the quality of ideas that we let into our mind.
For example.
Naughty N told me today (and I know she won’t mind me sharing this) that Spouser should most certainly be treating her like an utter princess. After all they have been married for over twelve years (I think?) and she hath bore him a tribe of sprogs. So she told him her idea.
Spouser said, “give me some ideas on how this can be achieved.”
So we made a list for him
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