stuck

Whenever I am 'stuck', i  think of a (half remembered quote from) zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.  If 'stuck' is when nothing comes to mind, well this is really quite Zen .  Its what monks and meditators practice and many people find incredibly hard.  In fact, if you ever find yourself 'stuck' and nothing is coming to you, just see how long you can manage to keep that empty space going.  I garner.  you will find that it is very hard to be 'stuck' for long.  Thinking of nothing is pretty difficult.  Try as hard as you might but very soon, an idea will pop into your head.  The more 'stuck' you are, the better, I say.  If you are 'stuck' you are up against your boundaries and about to think of something new.

I guess that sometimes being 'stuck' can be where other annoying and not important things that are whirring around, taking up space, or perhaps the same old idea keeps coming back again and again and again?

Perhaps that is why meditation is a useful tool to learn.  Or doing something totally different for a while.  Going for a walk? a bit of soup making? a nice relaxing hot bath?  

If you can truly manage to empty your head........then there is wide open space for that new idea to just pop up and surprise you.

Questions

This morning I  had a skype chat with the lovely Beth Nichols.  Who as you may or may not know, organised the UK's Do What You Love Retreat and is co hosting the Hello Soul Hello Business e course with Kelly Rae Roberts in the new year.  I 'met' Beth via doing KRR's Flying Lesson's e course last year.  (see button on my blog to the right there) Beth is a creative who has a good business brain, and thankfully she is putting it to good use in creating a business for herself, a business where she is doing what she loves.  You gotta hand it to her, early last year she didn't even know what a blog was, now here she is, running a fantastically popular site Do What You Love for Life with its e courses and community and retreats and all.

Now the reason I called her this week, is because I am very excited by my new job.  I think that what I am doing is also helping people do what they love.  And I am realising that I am falling in love with this new job I have.  I am doing what I love.  And not only that, but it is helping me carve out the time from my busy busy life to do other things I love. 

So.  I am going to write about it for DWYL (watch this space) because I am now one of those folks who is on the path. Doing what I love.  Very happy about that. 

It was cool to chat about the weird coincidences where you build your path before you even know you are.  Like my blog being called "Get Stuff Done".  Like Beth's first blog post being titled "Do WHat you Love".  Its like we planted seeds and they grew, and bloomed and blossomed.

And here. Here are my questions.... How can I create an e course? and create webconsulting arm of People Who Do and their marvellous methods that I have learnt that help you clear your head and worklife of the admin-y stuff so that you can get on and do what you really want to do?

How? 

Despite my wonderful time 'away from the screen' I do love the way the internet opens up the world and gives you the links to create your network of likeminded souls across the globe.  And I can see there are opportunities there that do not exist in the way they do, well, off screen. 

I have really enjoyed e courses.  And I think skype is fabulous - I mean, being able to talk to someone in another part of the world, in your own front room.  I did a Spanish Lesson with someone from Southern California, I showed my friend around my home she had never seen because she now lives in San Francsisco, the lovely Louise Gale advised me on how to progress my art business from her Hoboken Flat.  There must be a way to make it work. 

So, there is something I am interested in.  I had better talk to the guys about it.  But it could work am sure of it.  Just planting a seed.  In my own life. 

just a teeny nascent idea

I have been having this idea to do weddings.  as in handmade weddings.  and vintage type stuff for weddings.  collating a crew to do em.  event organisation. 

oh I do have too many ideas!!  I am going to talk to Kat about it this week.