Archive for May, 2009

Production

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

The simplest and most effective way to get something going?

Start.

(You’re be amazed at what can be achieved)

nb/ this is aimed at myself for myself by myself as a visual and physical reminder. — It works by reading and then doing something.

~Simplicity is often overlooked in search of more complex solutions~
~They are not always productive nor necessary~

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Idle Chat 1 – Deconstruction

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I tend to compartmentalise life. This goes here, that goes there and items with no label we’ll create a miscellaneous bin. Much to my dislike the miscellaneous bin exists but things get messy without it.

My blog has a miscellaneous bin; this is it, I’ve aptly named it ‘Idle Chat’, whether the label does it justice I really don’t care.

I might just delete, or appropriately – ‘empty’ the bin when I feel it’s getting messy, we’re see.

I realise that I like to write with purpose. If I have something potentially informative to share with others – I will take it up, otherwise I classify writing as a form of personal self expression; this is a personal interpretation not objective statement.
There is writing for an audience and writing for one-self and writing that sits in between.

Creating a section of my blog for self expression I decided could be nurturing. Moving out of structure, allowing more space and freedom for self expression without the outwardly concern on finish seemed perhaps a good idea to try, so here I am.

So I have been going through a gradual and enlightening process of change that has had me dismantling myself brick by brick.
Like a building undergoing restoration work the demolition process has begun whilst at the same time new foundations form.

Everything is in turmoil, just when I believe I have leverage something gets thrown across and cuts through the equilibrium. I’ve accepted this as reality and try not to fight it.

Change does not happen on this level as frequently as small change so I give this process my permission to do what it must in order to create the ultimate reformation.

Dismissive perhaps? – no, more accepting. I’ve accepted the reality of what is happening and yes, annoying in so far that decisions I make are daily strewn apart due to the latest deconstruction headlines but enlightening in that daily new vantage points pop up everywhere giving me ultimate access to areas I never previously knew about.

Like a castle each day I find exciting new areas from which I view opponents and this game is getting really fun, I can now access areas previously concealed allowing me greater power over my aliments and providing me with a far greater structure upon which to build a new life.

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Commitment

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Everything is a direct response of the self. Until we commit, nothing else commits. Our own uncertainties are reflected and proportionate in the things that present themselves to us.

We replicate what we find. Commitment is of the mind. Commitment forms the basis of the path we stick to. We cannot commit whilst considering other options.

If I walk down a street I have to walk a given path. I cannot walk five paths at the same time, it won’t work; the closest will be to walk one after the other.

My personal fear is of decision making; what if I’ve chosen the wrong path? (What if I’ve chosen the right path?) There will always be a better route when you commit to “one thing” – it’s like the other options knew you made a decision and start calling you with better offers.

The best decision making process acknowledges commitment to one path makes the others more readily attractive.

To continually wander round streets wondering at the other (perhaps better?) routes is futile. Know why you took the route you did and do with doubt what you do with rubbish, bin it. Physically and mentally you’re better reaching your destination (even if don’t get what you’d planned), knowing you made a decision, took action and stuck to it than you ever could be sitting by the sidelines gazing at the infinite possibilities yet never knowing existentially what the potential outcomes could bring. Destinations can be reached both physically and mentally but we live in a physical universe.

There will always be potential in every choice of what we could have done in hindsight but hindsight means ‘after the event has occurred’. A decision not taken is a decision not known. If I can’t decide on a path I will never know the outcome.

Commitment is the ultimate trust of a process, allowing it to unfold naturally and taking appropriate action where necessary while all the time knowing why and what made you take that decision and having the confidence and trust in acknowledging and accepting the consequences that follow.

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