I get a little obsessed with plants. I think it is my nurturing personality, I want to save every plant in my yard and nurse it back to life.
Michael and I are scaling back our landscaping. Actually it was never really landscaping but a mishmosh of plants I had stuck in the ground here and there.
My “let’s wing it” approach just hasn’t worked out so well. I just dive in and start digging, similar to how I write, actually. I just have to start with a word or a sentence. Any sentence.
Here’s a check in by Jude and me from our local grocer. I wanted to shoot a video by myself in a public place with lots people around. I am uncomfortable doing this. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be.
I happened to go at probably the busiest time of the week and the store was packed! I found myself wandering the store for longer than I’d like to admit looking for an area without tons of people.
This video is part of the I Don’t Care Project.
Recently, I wrote about what I learned from brewing my own beer and how it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. Given that realization, I decided to sell my homebrew equipment.
I’m reporting to you that, over the weekend, someone came and bought it and it’s no longer collecting dust in our basement. Here are a few thoughts:
How do you evaluate, keep track, and conduct an inventory?
If your mind were a warehouse, would you know what is stored in it? Is there anything not worth keeping? Old, expired, or taking up space?
Would this be an image of your warehouse?
Are the items being stored helpful, relevant, and in good shape?
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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
— Mark Victor Hansen
A former nurse, Bronnie Ware, who cared for patients in their final weeks of life, recently wrote about some of her experiences in her book.
When her patients were asked if they had any regrets or if they would do anything differently, common themes surfaced again and again.
The number one regret was:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
How are you wired?
Why do you do what you do?
Michael and I often say to one another that figuring this out and knowing how the other person is wired was the biggest change factor in our marriage.
We heard of doing a personality profile through Dan Miller. We used the DISC Profile provided through his site.
As you may know, 4 months ago, Claudia and I started the IDC Project. We did this because we’ve realized how much what we do, say, and the decisions we make are influenced by what others may think (click here to learn more about the IDC Project).
We’ve received an incredible response to this project! Many people have shared with us how this project has challenged them and how they are now doing their own “uncomfortable situations.”
This is a guest post written by Kent Julian. Kent is the founder and president of Live It Forward LLC, a personal and professional development company that helps people make the move to the life and work they love. He is also a highly sought after speaker to students and educators all across the country. In addition, he coaches individuals who are interested in starting their own speaking business. Connect with him on his blog or follow him on Twitter.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
– Robert H. Schuller –
The longer I work with life and career clients, the more I realize that certain “sticking points” are common with many people. Think of them as “hurdles” that are difficult to clear.
One such hurdle is the tendency to spend more time meditating on what to do than actually getting busy and doing something.
On a normal day 4 years ago, my husband Michael and I realized we weren’t living the life we wanted to live. We were living a boring life! So, on a hot weekend in July, we started a new life.
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