Thanks Joyce. I'm glad I learned that lesson sooner than later. I could help clients more when I realized the truth behind why they hired me. It's so hard to stuff your ego when people are hiring you to be "the expert" and that never was real. It was a lot of miscommunication until I understood what I could do to help them more than even they thought possible.
One thing that's changed my life in the past several years is early morning journaling. I've journaled at different points in my life and have kept some, which can be fun, weird and many other things when you read what your younger self was thinking/doing. My earliest journal is from the second year I moved to New York City. I was in a creative freewriting group in Seattle for about five years. Some of my journals were used for that purpose as well as journaling. Of course, The Artist's Way Morning Pages journaling practice is a good way to do a just upon awakening brain dump.
Two books for anyone to pick up if they want to just begin writing regularly, The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron, and Writing Without Teachers, Peter Elbow.
And, of course, The War of Art, Steven Pressfield.
Most of my best books come from clients or other professionals who think I really NEED to own and read a certain book. Julia Cameron The Artist's Way was on of those. And I see she is coming out with a current, updated version of that. I have an entire shelf of my library devoted to journals. Rarely do I go back and read them. Wouldn't it be great if ChatGPT could read my handwriting and enter all of the data in all of those journals? Then I could ask some really deep, insightful questions to mine for patterns, values, transitions. AI cannot do that yet and as long as we keep writing with pen and journal books, we have unique data that nobody in the digital world has ever seen.
@georgia patrick Fascinated by the average of 36 disruptors in a life and have to go make my own list to see. This will be a multiple pass post since the very first lesson stopped me cold. Not that I didn't know it but the bluntness of your delivery (and decades of trying to make it not so) made me gasp. Más tarde.
So glad it resonated. Perhaps it will help you unpack your story and express what you like about any of the 14 lessons learned in (most recent) 14 years.
Thanks Joyce. I'm glad I learned that lesson sooner than later. I could help clients more when I realized the truth behind why they hired me. It's so hard to stuff your ego when people are hiring you to be "the expert" and that never was real. It was a lot of miscommunication until I understood what I could do to help them more than even they thought possible.
Life lessons worth reading, and re-reading.
Thanks, Georgia!
One thing that's changed my life in the past several years is early morning journaling. I've journaled at different points in my life and have kept some, which can be fun, weird and many other things when you read what your younger self was thinking/doing. My earliest journal is from the second year I moved to New York City. I was in a creative freewriting group in Seattle for about five years. Some of my journals were used for that purpose as well as journaling. Of course, The Artist's Way Morning Pages journaling practice is a good way to do a just upon awakening brain dump.
Two books for anyone to pick up if they want to just begin writing regularly, The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron, and Writing Without Teachers, Peter Elbow.
And, of course, The War of Art, Steven Pressfield.
Most of my best books come from clients or other professionals who think I really NEED to own and read a certain book. Julia Cameron The Artist's Way was on of those. And I see she is coming out with a current, updated version of that. I have an entire shelf of my library devoted to journals. Rarely do I go back and read them. Wouldn't it be great if ChatGPT could read my handwriting and enter all of the data in all of those journals? Then I could ask some really deep, insightful questions to mine for patterns, values, transitions. AI cannot do that yet and as long as we keep writing with pen and journal books, we have unique data that nobody in the digital world has ever seen.
@georgia patrick Fascinated by the average of 36 disruptors in a life and have to go make my own list to see. This will be a multiple pass post since the very first lesson stopped me cold. Not that I didn't know it but the bluntness of your delivery (and decades of trying to make it not so) made me gasp. Más tarde.
So glad it resonated. Perhaps it will help you unpack your story and express what you like about any of the 14 lessons learned in (most recent) 14 years.