Organize and Thrive

Nov 9

• Plug about mother's obsession with organizing. My mother, the Zen master.

• Since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted to be an author and thus have stored hundreds of notes, notebooks, and journals brimming with creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, whining, observations, and inspiring factoids the last twenty-two plus years of my life.

• Now I find myself a twenty-five-year-old woman looking at a heap of facts about my life, many of which are difficult to emotionally confront.

• I need to somehow take on the marathon task of picking up pieces of information and finding the most direct, succinct way of telling the true tales of my story.

• A lot of this information can be thought of similarly to how hoarding objects in the home can be a form of staying "stuck."

• Plug about feng shui and its basic philosophy.

• While I recommend amazing books like Less is More and Simple Abundance and in general quite enjoy the simplicity and directness of Buddhist philosophy, the book that fired me up the most about my home was The Life Saving Magic of Tidying by SO AND SO.

• As I continued to find connections between my physical hoarding of objects and my mental hoarding of stories and facts, I had to learn processes to continually cleanse while simultaneously build a large project that, like an Iron Man,

• cannot possibly be completed without a training regimen and a mindset that recognizes the enormity of the task before you:

• it is monumental and you must know it while you embark on your climb to the top.

• I am in fact a Capricorn, a mythical sea-goat plodding up the steep rock hill of my dreams.

• I lust for the moment of standing atop my mountain and knowing that I conquered my life with gusto, bravery, and fearlessness. I aspire to be a bold and satisfied sea-goat one day.

So there's an aspect of this perhaps SERIES of 10-15 minute talks that discusses:

• The relationship from a yogic perspective of samskaras or that which we cling to--that which is bound up in us, tangled, like a knot.

○ Learning to release these things we cling to.

• From the perspective of feng shui, similarly aligning, nourishing the essential and eliminating the rest.

• From the perspective of a writer, same thing.

• From the perspective of an entrepreneur, same thing.

• From the perspective of someone looking to lose weight, break through depression, etc.

• We all just need to boldly and simply look at what is there and just, first, acknowledge it.

• It is what it is. You just need to see it, know it, feel it fully.

• What comes next is what is locked up inside you: you're reaction.

For instance, if there is a harsh truth I have been skirting for many years, let's say, for example, the belief that "I'm not good enough to manifest my dreams" then I will just sit with that reality, that feeling… blah blah blah. The next can be walking people through actual practices (very basic teachings).