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Goal Setting
Author: Jennifer Louden
26/03/09
How often do we sit waiting for inspiration? We sit and stew and ponder and pout. We think it's all about the mind and how it tie ideas to inspiration, yet, the experience of inspiration is first physical. What is your calling card of inspiration? Goose bumps? Chills? A burst of energy? The urge to dance? Suddenly feeling rather randy? What if, rather than believing inspiration only causes these reactions, maybe you could consider that your physical body can provide the g...
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Goal Setting
Author: Jennifer Louden
09/03/09
A friend takes me to an opera. I don't like opera. I go because I like her. Sitting in the darkness, voices entwine my heart, something breaks free in my belly and careens out, showering my body in goose bumps. A new me opens because of what is happening up on that stage. But Sam I am, I don't like opera. Not in the dark, not in a train, not in the rain. Here is what I believe: Life is an enormous pu-pu platter, a giant offering of possibilities, and it is up to us to keep sampling the delicious...
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Goal Setting
Author: Ali Cam
25/02/09
As we flew low over the Scottish highlands, our little plane being buffeted by the wind and thermal air currents, I couldn’t help but wonder if this was what some people felt like in their lives… Continually being blown off course and fighting to make any progress in the right direction. This flight was the culmination of a period of great flux and change in my own life and a scenic flight over one of my favourite parts of the world was the highlight of what had been a very challenging coupl...
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Goal Setting
Author: Jennifer Louden
23/02/09
How do we decide what to create? Out of the vastness of our imaginations, how do we land on what we articulate, bring into form, life, shape? I've never had to ask this question about my writing--I somehow instinctively learned early on to recognize what ideas had enough in them. I somehow knew how to sneak up on, lie down next to, rub up against an image or concept or feeling until I was sure I wanted to mate with it for the months and years it would take to create something worth my time. I've...
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Goal Setting
Author: Ali Cam
19/02/09
In NLP we know that success doesn’t exist. That’s not to say that you cannot be successful. It simply means that success is a nominalization, a concept not a thing. It’s an idea before the mind that only you can validate. While the trappings of success like a shiny new car, large house or beautiful family can be visible for all to see. Success is none (or all) of these things. Success cannot be put in your pocket or carried around in a wheelbarrow. Success will be different for everyone an...
