(I wrote this in April and just found it - so the "new" meditation I talk about is the one we do now 🙂

At our Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual Practice call, we did a new version of the meditation and I just loved it.

I had a pretty intense experience in the meditation.

And out of it came a realization about a different way to do something, a way that would make it easier for me.

And it felt like “Oh wow, this is the PERFECT idea! I’m so grateful for it!”

But later in the day I did remember- this idea has come to me NUMEROUS TIMES already.

In fact I was starting to do it just a few weeks ago and then I got off track with it.

I love that the idea KEEPS COMING BACK. Because it’s a good one.

OF COURSE I feel annoyed and discouraged about how many times I've had, and forgotten, this idea.

But I don't need to focus on that....

BECAUSE IT’S A PRACTICE.

I am practicing doing it and right now that practice looks like not doing it and forgetting all about it and then remembering and thinking of ways to do it that would make it easier for me to keep up with it.

So, I identified WHY I stopped doing it the last time.

I realized it makes sense I stopped doing it - because I had attached it to another task I do every week and it turns out, doubling the workload in that way makes it too much.

This should be a task I do separately.

So now I can try it this way, and see how this goes.

Getting an idea, and then implementing it “perfectly” as in, doing it “right” the first time and then sticking with it forever - IS NOT POSSIBLE.

Getting an idea, struggling to implement it in a way that really works for you, then dropping it and picking it back up and dropping it again and forgetting all about it - this is how it actually works.

It's not POSSIBLE to just implement every new idea you have on the way to your dream because... when you are creative dreaming you are constantly putting yourself in brand new territory.

When you are somewhere brand new, doing something brand new, there isn't a way to already know how to do it. You only already know how to do the things you already do!

Experimenting, exploring, learning, getting lost in resistance and doubt and fear... this is the way.

So, as long as we keep trying, keep practicing, keep processing our feelings about it and listening to our inner wisdom about what to try next… then we find OUR UNIQUE WAY of doing the thing.

So if you're fumbling and losing ideas and getting lost - CONGRATULATIONS! You're on your way.

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