Celebrating Successes

One of the greatest pitfalls to making progress in personal development is that humans rarely take a moment to give our selves well-deserved pats on  the back for progress made.  For whatever twisted reason - and it IS twisted, not as the Creator intended - we seem to gravitate away from celebrating successes.

Tonight, I celebrate a not-so-small success ~ I billed my grannie clients on the 15th, as I pledged a couple years back, yet rarely did.

Made a bargain, telling the clients' families (who handle the billings) that for every day I procrastinated, I'd take off an hour of time.  Have billed on time ever since implementing that policy.

Might not sound like much, but it's BIG to me; not only smart financially, but also because each success I rack up provides firmer foundation for the next success, and next, and next.

Over the next week, I'll be tracking HOW my time, my most valuable resource, is used.  What will illuminated?

Achieving Excellence....

Electrified as I read Finding Flow, "To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands & potential frustrations."

It's impossible to explain how thoroughly I was influenced by two - not just one, two! - dominant older siblings to look with distain on the "everyday."  

Not me, kiddo!  Not ever, I now realize.  Part of me say banging against the well-constructed, double-thick walled misconception that doing things the "everyday" way was special.  Yeah, like downright magical, 'cause that's the only way I could have steered clear of the everyday & ended up with anything substantial.  Made sense to them, because the things they were looking for out of life were not, are not, the things I crave.  Craved, but never to the point of recognizing the place where everything got messed up.  Until now.

Time to welcome demands & face up to, then transform frustration into satisfaction, even pride through well-considered & neatly executed actions!!

Letter it!  Keep it on the wall behind the computer!  Learn it - remember it - ACT on it!!

Ninja Poet

Well, the subhead of Maya Stein's blog is actually "Ninja Poet, Writing Guide, Creative Adventuress," but just the first two words are all you need to capture her spirit & a sense of her postings & shares.