Just Meandering

Hi!  Guess what?!  I'm still here!  Yay!!!!!

And I have high hopes for future production.  I have started being serious - okay, serious is the wrong word.  Perhaps, intensive.  I have started being intensive about my productivity.  Which requires not only knowing what I want to get done, but figuring out how I do it.  I have written many posts about this, I simply haven't actually posted them all yet.  (It's on the list!  *G*.)

Happily, as we round the corner to Fall and the Harvest, I can feel all the pieces coming together.  I can feel the practice settling in; and the habits I WANT to form, the habits that make me happy, are claiming their places.

There is, of course, a lot of work to do.  After all, the goal is productivity, right?  And a few things to finalize (like my latest book, YAY!).  And often, just when I think I have a handle on my preferences, my body introduces something new, or my husband's schedule changes, or it snows.  Or Zynga puts kittens on Castleville Legend.  (Yeah, I have been practicing being productive BEFORE earning kittens.  Yay me, again.)

So, we're still working on the pattern.  But it's obvious posting makes me happy, cuz I keep coming back to it.  Even if I'm being sporadic about it right now.  Sometimes, when practicing production, one ends up focusing on the things which are new, until they are soft and pliable and fit well into the tapestry of...  

...woof, lost that metaphor.  Talk about meandering.

So, I hope to see you again soon.  Or, more accurately, I hope you will see me again soon.

I hope your harvest is coming in even more lush and abundant than you expected.

And I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

Ruminate, rinse & repeat

Sometimes, as I begin to expound upon some important topic, I feel an over-whelming sense of familiarity. Have I already given my personal chapter & verse on this issue?  Haven't I already poured out my heart?

Anyone who has tried to change a habit can tell you, it takes more than 1 day, more than 1 try, to make a difference in a life. And what is any moment of life but an attempt, a practice, of new habits? Whether we're changing patterns or perceptions or preferential attitudes, it's the repetition & the practice which perfects it.

Just like a habit desirous of change, a thought process is a repetitious thing.  Whether you're establishing your faith or learning a dance step, you find yourself thinking the same thought, or contemplating the same issue, again and again until you're quite clear in your mind.  It's not a sudden process -- although one day you'll suddenly realize you no longer have the issue --  it's a practice. 

And so, when I think I am repeating a thought process, or a protest, or a declaration of faith or perspective, I go ahead and write it out anyway.  Because practice, repetition, refinement, is the way to know what really works for me.  The way to know what I really think.  To way to scrape off the top layer of thought and dig down to the next level of the issue.

Ruminate, rinse, and repeat. 

I hope you have a great day!

-Lila