June 3, 2008 Intention

Hard to distinguish intention from vision, goal, mission,…  All of these words have a role in propelling us to the future…and sometimes I think the difference is in my mood.  What it looks like today is that my intention is motivating me to stop this and start that, to get on with it.

My intention is to focus on my income potential… so this looks like indulgence – It’s taken a while to babysit with Camron, cook and eat breakfast and break away from today’s book.  So I’m behind.  Have to pass over my email and get going.  Money distracts me and I have to undistract.  Always helps to restate my commitments-bringing joy and satisfaction to people’s lives – in harmony with Earth; environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment to all.

May 26, 2008 Happy? Monday

This is about contradiction.  There’s no work.  There’s no school.  It’s a perfect day; temperature 80+, cloudless sky, just the right breeze.  And it’s memorial day.  Be happy.  Remember the dead, the brave, the sacrificed.  Watch war memories on television with the windows open.

How do we be on a day like this?

Here’s how I am.  Happy, playing with happy grandchildren, being outside.  Praying the war will end — everywhere, praying for us to build our future, not destroy it — saying what I want, writing poems.  Being grateful for what we have, for what works, for today.

Going for a walk.

May 21, 2008 Getting There

I haven’t been up to getting moving – It’s 3PM and I’m starting.  email takes too effing long; even just deleting…

I am working at separation — separating the work I do for tomorrow and the work I do for today.  It’s difficult because in my mind tomorrow always has precedence.  But today is earning a living.  Today has the virtue of immediacy, the call of urgency.  Tomorrow has the virtue of pleasure, the call of importance.

It seems we are all caught by the pull of urgency and the call of importance.

And between Scylla and Charybidis is commitment… my commitment to a sustainable tomorrow – without it there ain’t me, us or it… the commitment to spiritual fulfillment that makes it all worthwhile, that gives it meaning beyond facts….the commitment to social justice becayuse it’s not just you and me and never has been… and we forget that.

May 19, 2008 Starting Over

I’m back for real.  Making all those decisions that starting over requires – Forgetting vacation is not hard; the vacation disappears –But recreating myself is hard; a week without myself is strange.  Because nothing else stops when I do and I don’t have externally provided routine to get me going.

So I’m back.  My daughter’s moving; another is having my 8th grandchild (a son) – And most important, I’m renewing my commitments.  Vacation is over.  I will no longer drive over 55 MPH.  I am committed to minimizing plastic.  I’m committed to listening to the people I trust to coach Me.  No more fucking with my diet.

I stand for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment.  I promise  you to provide joy and satisfaction in harmony with Earth.  I am grateful that I can take this stand and make this promise.

May 8,2008 Dancing and Praying

Things work out.  But you can’t know that until they do.  So you have to put in every effort — dance like there’s always music — pray because you know you’re not alone.  And have gratitude for the ending.  Because they do work out.

You don’t need to hear stories; you have yours.

Stay true to your commitments, your vision, your purpose, your mission.  You’ll define yours for yourself.  When therre’s too much going on, relax – that’s the way you want it, even though it’s messy.

Mine is simple – to empower people to have joy and satisfaction, to live fulfilled lives in harmony with earth… to make real a sustainable environment, spiritual fulfillment and social justice.

May 7, 2008 A Brief Absence

I’ve been sick and incommunicado.  Ah, well.  I’m back.  I’ll be gone next week –in Cape Cod.  Just thought I’d catch up.

Being in the hospital –entirely my stupidity – I have to look at the vcalue I got from it.  Most important, I see my most fundamental mind game:  “this doesn’t matter to me.”   I give great, great coaching.  But do I pay attention to myself?  Why should I?  This doesn’t matter to me.

I went for a walk in the hospital and I borrowed their socks.  They have grips on the bottom and they’re grey on top.  I put them on and had never seen grippers before; I thought they were decorative.  So I carefully turned them upside down.  A nurse told me it was backwards.  And I noticed how often we ALL do that – Do exactly the opposit e, thinking —no knowing — we’re doing it right.

Anyhow, a hospital is not a fit place for sick people.  They are kind and loving and do the best they can, but they really don’t have a mindset of health; they have a mindset of medicine.  They don’t have the slightest understanding of nutrition – You can’t get whole grain anything; only white rice, dot dot dot.  But they eventually get you out and it will only take a few deays for me to re-learn how tro heal myself.  This time not succumbing to “I know better; it doesn’t matter to me.”

April 27, 2008 My Greening

Yesterday I co-facilitated a Symposium (Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream)… It is more powerful than ever, always evolving.  It grows as it goes, because so do we. 

I’ve bveen asking myself, along with Nancy — “What’s next?”..There are some things we can do that we’re not ready to do:  replacing all our windows and getting a new furnace.  And there are some things we can’t figfure out how to do:  getting rid of all plastic (we can’t figure out how to eliminate all plastic wrapping on food products, but we’re coming close.  But we can’t possibly commit to not getting more eyeglasses, never buying computer, car, cell phone, etc.) so we’re putting that on hold.

But what we can do is increase our talking to people.  I started a new blog today:  MYGreening.  And I’ll start speaking about what we can do without scr ewing ourselves up….There’s nobody but us.

 

April 24, 2008 Today is Different

I did today backwards because I brought my car in for service – So I hit the gym at 7:30, then to the car place, then home for breakfast and a client.  So here I am at 1PM, doing my morning.  I wonder about the rest of the day.

I have the luxury of creating every day – I suppose we all have, even if it’s totally scheduled.  Inside the constraints of scheduling, we still create every moment – I caught myself when I said this is a luxury, but like most of us most of the time, we don’t realize that we really do create every moment.  Our minds are always ours; our responses to inputs are our responses.  And the responses determine the day, not the inputs.

For me, this is n’t Earth Day, or week.  It’s Earth Always.  And there’s nobody except us who are going to get the job done.  I got rid of one of my cars; I use cloth bags to shop with, I belong to a local CSA; I use wind power for 20% of my PSE&G bill.  I use CFBs.  But that’s not nearly enought.  I don’t eat red meat, but that’s not nearly enough.  I stand for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment.

April 22, 2008 Earth Day

I am committed to a sustainable environment, social justice and spiritual fulfillment for all of us.  Earth Day is about all three.  You can’t have one without the other.  If I lived in a cave and meditated –And survived only by breathing, I would still need the mountain, the cave, the air… would still need to be left alone.   We cannot support the environment without social justice – Who will force the government to take any action?  Only all of us.  And who will stop that action from harming the disadvantaged, keeping the wealthy undisturbed?  Only all of us.  In fact, “only all of us” could be our. mantra

April 16, 2008 Roughing it —– michael lipp

I’m putting my name on this because people who get feed blitz don’t have me id’d on it,  I do not mean that you’re roughing it with me.

This is just a very long, very full day- Client at 11; Coaching a group in their offic at 1; international mastermind group at 3:30; awesome group coaching at 7:30, new mastermind group atr 9pm.  I expect to have more energy at the end than I have now.

I finished my scince fiction novel – I need to go through ISBN, etc.  Hate to leave it while I do the rest of my life.