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PASSION IS A FEELING YOU CAN USE

PASSION IS A FEELING YOU CAN USE

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Oh, finally!  After beaucoup years of nonsense about “finding your passion” and “following your bliss,” people of influence are finally telling us more ordinary sorts a better truth. Passion is not a path.  Passion is not a guidepost.  Passion is really not a will-o-the-wisp phosphorescent light that dances ahead of you and maybe leads you into a bog or something. Passion is a feeling.  It comes, it goes, it morphs, it grows.  And, more than anything (like every other human…

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JOURNALING 201 (Mind-Mining)

JOURNALING 201 (Mind-Mining)

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Journal-keeping and diary writing – tracking daily events and happenings in some sort of record book – has been going on for centuries.  Except for wanna-be smarty-pants and wise guys (i.e., the “intelligentsia”), poets and writers and Creatives of every stripe, and young girls teetering on the brink of woman-ness, the keepers of these journals mostly recorded daily events and happenings with an exterior point of view. People with a visual orientation did sketchbooks. Most everyday journalers used their ledgers,…

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MINDFUL ROAD-BUILDING

MINDFUL ROAD-BUILDING

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Lately I’ve been stumbling around after tripping over a mind-game construct called “doing a mindset reset.” Apparently, it’s based on pretty recent neurological studies that the guys and gals in lab coats say reveal the inherent “plasticity” of a human brain’s ability to control our body’s functions, actions and all that. There are all kinds of big words and dizzy-making charts and boring numbers and, as usual, my poet-brain goes to sleep when I try to think on them.  The best…

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USE YOUR FEAR AS RADAR

USE YOUR FEAR AS RADAR

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How many times has THIS happened? You have a really crazy idea that you absolutely, deep down in the pit of your stomach, KNOW will be totally RIGHT for you.  You want this.  You irrefutably NEED this! You get a truly awesome limited-time chance to make it happen and it is imperative that you do this thing right now, or else….well, you just keep doing whatever you’re already doing. Right then fear will rear its ugly head.