It’s been an amazing few weeks for me.
I am working through the Creative Dream Incubator Workshop and all can say is, “Wow.” It’s been so beautiful to see how my perceptions are shifting and blooming and growing and things are manifesting.
I am getting ahead of myself though.
The reason this week has been so good, in a large part I believe, is my new approach to “stuff.” My new approach to all the things that have to get done, should get done or that I would like to get done.
You see love to garden-and when we bought our home-the minute the weather was warm enough I was out digging my first hole for my very own rose bush. Over the years the garden has grown, changed evolved-as did I.
It seemed as time went on that I approached my gardening as one would a marathon-always looking for the finish line. It wasn’t until last year that I realized something.
I like gardening, I just wasn’t acting like it.
I made it like any other task in life-something I had to finish so I could put another “to-do” in it’s place. The truth is, I didn’t have to garden. I could just have a lawn that got mowed once a week. No one said my porch needed flowers-so why was I rushing through my days in the yard?
I realized I rushed through a lot of things. The drive to a vacation, a birthday party because I had stuff to do after. Truth is I was rushing through life.
So I decided that when I went outside to work in the yard-I would focus on ALL the pruning, or ALL the leaves, I would focus on the gardening. I would pick a tiny spot and say, “you my friend are going to look MARVELOUS!” (Ok. I didn’t actually say that but do talk to my flowers-and the weeds actually). And I would set myself up to work on that spot as if it would take all day.
Hell, I’d bring a canteen and a snack.
And the funny thing was-it would take maybe 15 minutes. And then I’d look around and find another spot I wanted to work on. Then another. Before long I was inspired to work on the “less fun” projects. And you know what? I finished the front garden in record time.
Now, before I also would have finished the garden, the main difference is that this time I enjoyed it.
So here’s to spending a week, looking at all those things we do as if we were gardening (or something else delicious you love). Take a section, start on it and breathe in the moment.