Midlife and the art of doing the impossible

Seth Godin excerpt about making art
Making art hurts because it’s scary when it’s done in ways that aren’t normal

 

Thank you Donna Flanagin for sharing this…

Have seen the final sentence as a famous quote, but never in the whole context presented here:

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. (unsure of source)

Aloha.

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Day six in Hilo, Hawaii and maybe this will happen

Aloha sigh
Aloha

 

Day six in Hilo, Hawaii and maybe this will happen… maybe I’ll adjust to the new routine:

1. No Internet signal in room
2. Six hour time difference
3. Allure of Hawai’i, reality of long work days
4. So much to do, so little time
5. Writing last thing of the day versus first thing

Will I get to write from hotel lobby at 4:15am ?… and maybe a run as the sun rises at 5:53am?…

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Willing to adapt or change from a long standing habit or routine?

 

Wild Hawaiian bird at Volcanoes National Park
The nature of life is change and adapt

 

Willing to adapt or change from a long standing habit or routine?

Hope so. It’s a test we’d all like to pass, but won’t volunteer to take.

Doing it involuntarily (and I’m ok with that) here in Hilo, Hawai’i.

What’s the adaptation? Writing at the very end of the day instead of the very beginning.

More tomorrow.

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Dear readers, an amazing day of cultural immersion is good for the soul

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park entrance
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park entrance

 

Dear readers, an amazing day of cultural immersion is good for the soul.

Twelve hours and a couple hundred miles.

It was work.

It was fun.

They go together.

The 19-hour travel day to tee this up was as fun as a 19-hour travel day could be on three flights, on an airline without any loyalty program status.

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Guest Blogger Lorie Sheffer: Forgiveness, step 10 – managing stress

Old home movie film reels
Can we lean to stop replaying the old tapes in our past? (Photo: Lorie Sheffer)

 

The tenth step in our way to learning to let go and forgive is to understand all the ways we carry anger, trauma and pain.

We carry it physically as well as emotionally.

There’s an old saying, “Hurt people hurt.” When we carry pain and resentment, we will often lash out and become angry, hurtful people.

A recent study at Temple University Hospital, led by Domenico Practico, MD, Professor of Pharmacology and Microbiology, found strong evidence that “stress is an environmental factor that looks like it may play a very important role in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Stress is something we can learn to manage. We can’t always remove or change the source of the stress, but we can change how we react to it.

We need to be aware of the same old tapes we play over and over again in our minds. A staggering 98% of the thoughts we have today are the same ones we had yesterday. When those thoughts are negative, no wonder we feel bad.

We can retrain our brains to let go of those negative old thoughts and replace them with new, positive thoughts and memories.

Everyone at some time in his or her life has been hurt, disappointed or betrayed. We aren’t alone in feeling disappointment and pain.  We owe it to ourselves and to those around us to learn to put down those negative thoughts and step away toward happiness.

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