... how did that person accomplish such a wonder?
Have you ever had a dream for yourself, and wondered, "Can I make this happen?" Did you question your abilities or your resources and then put your dreams aside? Let me tell you something that I know for sure: You can do it. You can make your dreams come true.
It doesn't take anything truly extraordinary. It doesn't take a ton of skill or talent. All it takes is knowing what you want, envisioning it as already being in existence, and going forward towards your goal with each step you take. That's how it's always been done! And be thankful for each step you take forward, also. Love each moment that you have and know that you are making progress.
As I've said before, making a vision board with pictures to draw from will help you to focus your mind. Even more powerful, I believe, is making a vision journal. Write in is as though you already had what you wanted, and feel the gratefulness of having it. Write about it! Be excited for yourself and your loved ones because of it. Live as though it were already a reality!
People are amazing. When you think about all the things that we currently have: cars, airplanes, space flight... all these things came into being because someone SAW it in their minds eye. They imagined it, and then they worked towards it with their vision in mind.
I know you can do whatever it is that your dreams call you towards. I know it. If you HAVE a dream, then you are the lucky one! To this day, I still don't know what it is that I want! I feel like a one-off from everyone. But I know that's okay, too. I'm here to support those that have a dream. I'm here to tell you: You can make your dreams a reality!
Tell me what your dreams are! I would love to hear about them. If I can help in any way, I would like to be a helpful part of your success. I'm actually a pretty good cheerleader, and I also KNOW THINGS. Ha ha! I am always willing to try, regardless. So let's hear it!
After reading Brandigirl's blog today, which talks about what makes a person an artist, I felt the need to piggy back onto that subject.
When I was going to college, I had an instructor who was also a well-known sculptor. I looked up to him, as he seemed to be an artist as well as a success. He taught art, received commissions and actually made money enough to live in the Santa Cruz Mountains. One week, we had a project to do to create a 3D work using our shadows as the subject matter. Now, I had never worked in three dimensions before... I was always doing photography, drawing in pencils, charcoals, pastels... some painting, too, but it was all in two dimensions. This shadow project was one of my first. Also, I hadn't yet taken any color classes, so I was really young & naive to what ways I could express myself artistically.
I had to work with what I had, as I was struggling with school, work and living on my own. I was able to get some plywood from my mom's garage, traced the designs I wanted onto the sheets of plywood, and had my boyfriend at the time help me to cut the designs out. I had to use spray paint that was already in the garage for color, and they were only red, green and blue. Hideous colors, to be sure! The resulting piece was two of my shadow forms, which I had notched to fit together in the middle, so that they would stand up like a statue. I thought it was kind of cool, and it took me days to complete. When my instructor critiqued it, his only comment was, "It's very pedestrian." And then he moved on to the next person's piece.
I was devastated, and very certain that I was NOT an artist, and if I were, I was a BAD artist. I cried that night, and maybe a couple more times, whenever the shame of his assessment would wash over me.
It took me many, many years to shake that torn and dirty shawl off my shoulders. I believed my old instructor. I let his horrible and unthinking words have their way with my psyche. I should have ignored him completely, but I wasn't as strong then as I am now.
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Then take my sister. She went to school for business. She was always told by our mom that she was very good at business and money matters, but that she had no creativity in her. Now, my mom was always pretty supportive of my love of the arts, and had told me that I was good at drawing, etc. But with my sister, she felt that her strengths were definitely NOT in the arts.
But my sister was not cowed, or thrown off her personal vision, which started after she graduated. She moved down to L.A., and promptly got into fashion, doing textile designs for a big clothing design company. (I own tons of their clothes!) Then she decided that she wanted to design clothes herself, and moved to a different company, getting closer to her goal. However, she changed goals later, when she decided to become a fashion photographer. Mind you, she never went to art or design school. She never immersed herself in photography back in school. Yet, she threw herself into it, and called herself a photographer, and she became VERY GOOD. In fact, people pay her to do photo shoots of them because she's so good. Check out the link to her photos...
You are what you believe you are. You are the maker of your Life. You design your place in the Universe. Believe in yourself, and you can become whatever you want! Don't let labels, yours or other people's, stop you from pursuing your dreams. Follow your bliss!!
Have you ever felt yourself in the midst of a mind-flurry, and suddenly asked yourself, "What am I doing?" I think that all of us can sometimes (or often times) get caught up in our physical reality of what we think of as "Our Life," and forget to slow down.
I've read The Power of Now and A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle. I received so much help from his books, and I wanted to share a bit of it with you.
One of my favorite bits is my understanding of This Moment that we are conscious in. When we live our lives, our only true (and thus most important) experience is what is Now. The current moment of experience is all we ever can possibly experience. The past is what we have already experienced (past Now moments), and the future is what we will experience, but NOW is what we ARE experiencing, and thus is the only reality. This is a little boggling when at first you sort it out.... the past certainly informs our perceptions of things that happen now, but it's PAST. It's done. We are no longer living it, as we should not be. We should always try to find ourselves immersed in the present. The Present is the gift we are given in our existence. The Present is our experience. It is our Joy, Excitement, Happiness, Sadness... all of our feelings are experienced in the present. Of course you can remember past joys, or sadness, but it's only a shadow compared to fresh emotions and feelings.
I believe that one of our duties to the well-being of our souls and psyches is to try to be fully aware of what is happening NOW. Of what our perceptions are NOW. Don't sleep walk through this life of ours, Friends and Family of mine (as you all are to me). It all goes so quickly! Love in the moment! Do new things as often as you can! Stretch yourself as much as you can! Squeeze the marrow out of life... don't let it just fall through your fingers... slurp it up!
I don't mean to tell you that you always have to go somewhere, or do something... what I mean is simply to be aware of each moment and to live that moment fully. Every moment. Don't fiddle your moments away by living too much in the past or future... I believe it was Einstein who said, "I never think about the future, it comes soon enough." So true.
...and I find that I'm procrastinating the main subject on the spread. Strange! I mean, why don't I know what I want? I'm creating this journal to help me to visualize and live the life that I want for myself and I can't seem to get past the first block. Why don't I know what I want? I thought I KNEW what I wanted.... but apparently I don't? I mean, I know that I want to be successful at something, right? I know that I have a few ventures started. But how to take that first step?
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be happy to hear them!
I could use a little help from my friends. I need a little help to unlock that door.
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