Envision: Many Roads

Musing…           

True vocation is  “where your talents and the needs of the world cross”. -- Aristotle

Having a vision for your creative expression, for meaningful work, or a fulfilled life does not have to be some lofty nor laborious process. It absolutely is generated from your wellspring within- it’s a matter of paying attention and setting intention. Imagine a crossroads: your expression offered through your hands to others on the horizontal axis – what you love and are passionate about (heart) inspired by your imagination (mind) and spirit on the vertical axis. The possibilities and variations are infinite: thus this crossroad can lead to many roads. The world needs us all.

Kate’s Turn:  

Previously I wrote about using a vision board to capture the envisioning process. Another way to kindle the vibrations of imagination is using a journaling process with a Pray Rain Journal (Martha Beck, author and life coach). In her newsletter, Martha explains: “A Pray Rain Journal is basically a written vision board in the form of a small journal. Get yourself a very small empty notebook. Each day, write a page as if you were living your ideal life and are journaling about it. Use present tense and write about all the wonderful things that are happening and the ramifications of every event.”

This process has increased my visioning process, for each entry can have its own down-the-road outcome. It keeps my musing in passion and joy, while playing out many possible paths where that expression is received by my world. I enjoy writing, I love dreaming, and cultivating possibilities that are my ideal is a fun way to pay attention/set intention for future realities. My curiosity gets piqued to see where this road just might lead me.

Get Fired Up:   

How can your joy in offering your passion and talent contribute to your world around you? Step out on one of those roads………now step out again…………and again………and again. Have fun on the journey, and let what you love lead you forth.

Envision: Scope

Musing…

“Esse est Percepi”, “To be is to be perceived”
-- George Berkeley, 18^th century Anglo-Irish philosopher

We are often each other’s mirrors, unable to see ourselves in ways others see us.  

  

Charise’s Turn: 

A fortuitous turn of events has put me in direct contact with Dr. Alianna Maren, aka Alay’nya, the dancer/author of Unveiling: The Inner Journey. She blogged about my dance performance in May, I commented on her blog, she responded to my feedback, we became curious about each other’s published books and about our shared interests in dance, writing, reflection, and then met to exchange books to co-review for amazon. An ever-widening loop of interconnected parts that started with performer and audience – the movement that stirred her to write, the writing that stirred my response, the communication that stirred an interest in meeting, the meeting that stirred us to support each other’s endeavors, the support that bolsters our endeavors in reaching so many other people.

With her fresh perspective on what A Portable Identity is about, I am better able to see the essence of my work, how it applies to situations other than relocation, how turning points in life are thresholds similar to facing new frontiers overseas. To remove the context of relocation from the model of identity, in a sense “unveil” or "un-camouflage" the heart of the matter, is to see how A Portable Identity is relevant to many, and maybe to all of us at one time or another, when change calls us to dig deep within ourselves to understand and reinvent who we are.  Now I have a bigger scope for my message, a greater connection to my own material, and a way to deliver it to a larger community of people. 

Get Fired Up:

Get Feedback! Share your idea, your project, your work in progress, with someone else who can give you their perspective. Part of envisioning is having your vision seen.