Anyone that has known me more than five years probably would have rolled their eyes when I said I intended to start a blog. Most Likely to Abandon Blog in Less 10 days Or Less - yup, that's me.
I say I have a restless spirit. They say I am flaky. I've changed a lot, but I do prefer to flirt with ideas more than I like to marry them. The reason I've stuck with blogging is that the theme and intent and the entire reason for its being came from one of my incubation "advances" with an unmistakable stark pang of clarity. There was no escaping the call...and this time I yearned to stay with it rather than evade it.
The most important thing to remember about the Dwelve process is that a clarity of purpose will shine through any of the decisions, ideas, plans, schemes, business models, campaigns you dream up. In fact, it's a great process for that perennial big question: How do I express my spirit in the best way possible in this world now?
There's a lot of reasons one does not commit and follow through to what are seemingly great ideas. The last post discussed the primal fear of not belonging. Being original opens the door wide for potential disapproval.
Here's another reason for lack of follow-through of what "should be" great projects:
In the light of day it's not remarkable and gasp-worthy to your soul...and you aren't necessarily fooling it. You remain conflicted only out of a sense of obligation to the birthed idea. It's time to rid yourself of burdensome obligations. Invite your soul to sift your options.
[T]he shadowcatcher Ansel Adams, who believed that his camera was a combination of machine and spirit, wrote in his autobiography about one afternoon that shaped his destiny. He was married in his twenties and still living with his mother and his aunt. The time had come when he had to choose between his two great passions - photography and piano. His wife, Virginia, told him she would support him in whatever he believed to be his true calling, but his mother pleaded in anguish, "Do not give up the piano!" The camera cannot express the human soul!"
Adams paused for a moment, then replied with the confidence of the moment, "Perhaps the camera cannot, but the photographer can."
- Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
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