On Monday, January 21, I will be giving the first

Finding, Knowing, Becoming teleseminar:

 

Inner Goals, Inner Design, Inner Budget

 

I will share some great ways to help you be richly successful and joyously satisfied in your inner development by setting your goals, designing your process, and budgeting your attention, your time, your money, and much more. You will hear a 40 minute presentation followed by 15-20 minute Q&A. The teleseminar is recorded for your relistening, if you can't be live. There is a great workbook.

 Register for this personally transformative program here.

 

 

Imagine

Your Resolutions... Your Words...Your Questions

 

Get a start on your Inner Goals through working with your resolutions, symbolic words, and questions. This post offers three ways to shape your coming year as a timeframe for fulfilling your goals: resolutions, symbolic words, and questions.

TIME SEGMENTS - A YEAR OR LESS

We always think in terms of a year, but the three ways can be used for any time segment: a season, a month, a week, a day, a special occasion. We evolve in any measurement of time.

PARTS OF YOU & THE ROLES YOU PLAY

And I strongly urge you to do these exercises for your personal life, your professional life, your relational life. Clearly, there are many parts to your life, paying attention to each one will help you deal with the times when your different roles conflict with each other. Your professional life may conflict with your creative life. Being a mother may conflict with your meditative life. Your goals as a writer may conflict with your goals as a gardener.

I define a role as an expression of devotion, a focus for your thinking, your feeling, and your will that matters to you. Before you contemplate on your resolutions, words, and questions, make a list of your roles.

It's complicated being you. Resolutions, symbolic words, and questions will help you find yourself, know yourself, become yourself.

What are your resolutions?

Learn the history of yearly resolutions here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_resolution

Resolutions are about your will to achieve, to improve, to be better. Making resolutions clarifies your determination to fulfill particular goals.

Keep it simple...no more than three resolutions. No more...for each part of you!

It's a wonderful feeling to be resolute! To make I-will-be-different statements with confidence, even with just hope, give intention and motivation to your life.

And it is wonderful to take the time, consider your goals, write them down. It's mid-January, if you haven't made your resolutions for 2013, take 15 minutes, think about yourself and your roles, and write down three resolutions (if you are stuck, try humor!). Every time you write an I-will statement you get a little bit more embodied. Notice I said write, not think. You have to be embodied to write. Thinking doesn't require embodiment...so write it down to your bones.

I just got an ahha... I am throwing away all "to do" lists. From now on I am keeping "I will" lists. Machines do. Human beings will.

Resolutions live in and focus your will on conscious goals.

What are your words?

I have noticed a number of bloggers I follow have been asking their readers to come up with three words for 2013. This is a great creative challenge and again a way to focus your intention and become more self aware. What word or words feel right to you?

Let me make a suggestion to deepen the process. For each role of devotion, imagine seven words: 3 nouns (naming the gestures, focuses or results ), 3 verbs (the actions you will take) and 1 preposition (how you relate to the role).

These words express your feel-right pictures of your year and will live in your heart and your breath.

Here are my words for my year as a writer

My 3 nouns: attention, process, courage
My 3 verbs: organize, complete, celebrate
My 1 preposition: in

Here are my words for my year as a grandmother

My 3 nouns: joy, responsibility, time
My 3 verbs: laugh, attend, teach
My 1 preposition: with

What are your questions?

Here's the best from my perspective because I love mystery and I love wisdom and both dwell in the realm of the question. Being aware of your questions sustains and deepens the consciousness that recognizes meaningful, often surprising, answers and supports your growth, development, and creativity.

Your questions are what you will be working on for one-third of your year - the part of the year when you are sleeping (8 hrs out of every 24). What do you want to sleep on? You go to sleep with your questions and you wake up with your answers. Important questions may take many nights before the answer dawns. Just remember your answers may be wiser questions.

To determine your questions, write down as many questions as you imagine. Set a timer for 3 or 5 minutes and just start writing questions, do not pause, do not think about the question you just wrote or the question you will write. Just write question after question. Use your resolutions and your roles to inspire your questions. When the timer goes off you can reset it for another 5 minutes or you can stop. When you stop go back over all your questions and circle the ones that seem important - the ones you would love to have the answers to. Then choose 4 questions. Write them down and keep them by your bed. Read them every night before you go to sleep.

As you wake up to your answers, write them down. The Inner Year Journal pages include spaces for New Thoughts, New Feelings, New Deeds, New answers and New Questions.

Keep returning to your list of questions when you need other questions to take into your sleep.

Always go to sleep with a question - do not waste the creativity in your soul as it is asleep to the material world of the senses and awake to the mysteries and wisdom of the spirit.

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announcing

NEW MONTHLY SEMINARS

Beginning in January

FINDING, KNOWING, BECOMING 
a monthly seminar
the 3rd Monday of the Month

3PM Eastern

 

I am launching a new monthly program of seminars on 
creative, practical, spiritual elements and aspects of being human and becoming I

a presentation of 30-40 minutes 
Q&A for another 20 minutes

&

valuable handouts supporting the content and 
guiding your application of the content

The seminars are recorded, so if you can't be live, you will still receive the recording and the handouts, the wisdom and the support for imagining yourself in new ways.

These seminars are a midpoint between my EVOLVING THOUGHT blogs and the IMAGINE SELF programs and courses. 

The topics I choose will challenge and enrich how you see yourself and live your life.  You will also find comfort and wisdom in the content.  The handouts will give you outlines of the content, questions for reflection and consideration, and suggested exercises to work with to deepen your sense of yourself.

Ideal for the technically anxious or doubting.  If you have wanted to take an IMAGINE SELF PROGRAM but are concerned about the technology of participating in an online program, these single sessions seminars will give you practice in the using the computer and the web as a sacred space for inner development.

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