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Journal Writing for Change

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Change was the theme for both parties this past campaign.

When we are in a national state of change it is a perfect opportunity to begin your own journal of change.

Life Review: take the time to review your  the past six month’s of your life. What did you accomplish? Is there an area that you would like to improve? Maybe your health was not up to par. Or you are not as fully engaged in your creative life as you hoped.

Setting Goals:  Use Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009 as end point.

Goal Examples:

  • On January 20 I will have written 4 chapters of my book.
  • By January 20 I will be walking 4 x’s a week for 20 minutes.
  • January 20 I will have made changes each day to improve my attitude.

On January 20 celebrate your inauguration into a new healthy and creative you.

But don’t stop there- set some goals for the year. Each day take a step towards reaching your goals.

Hello, Hello is this thing on?

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I just wrote and article about acceptance.  In part I looked at the serenity prayer and the idea of accepting the things I cannot change.  I am not good at it.  It is easy to write about things.  It is another to live what you write.

They say you teach what you most need to learn. Does that mean teacher’s and writer’s are liars? If we were to only write or teach what we personally knew or had experienced we would be in big trouble. We are researchers, observers of the universe. Even if we didn’t have direct knowledge of something we most likely have investigated it.

I stuff more information into my head to the point it falls out like socks in a cluttered sock drawer. I am full up with ideas, projects and things I would like to do. Sometimes all points collide and nothing gets done. But the times I am rocking and creating are the best. Yesterday I bought an inexpensive and simple to use digital camera. It is red, my favorite color, it fits in my hand. It uses double A batteries. I can pop it out of my pocket shoot a photo and slip in back in without skipping a step.

This camera fills in the gap in my creativity. I am a visual person. I see things and I wish to have it saved for memory. Now I can begin that process.