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5 Muses on How to Think Differently and Your New Year
1. Muse Song, The Muse of Pampering, Nurturing and Good Company:
Make one of your new year resolutions to continue something you are already doing that is working . . . give yourself credit that you don't always have to be figuring something new out to do to be better. You already are doing much of what you need to do. . . . keep it up and acknowledge yourself for it.
2. Bea Silly, The Muse of Laughter, Play and Dance:
Start your day out with a list of things to do and then put "I get to . . . " in front of each of them. This will inspire you to subconsciously start focusing on why the things you do are fun or something to be thankful for.
3.Albert, Muse of Imagination and Innovation
Look for something different each day. Ask yourself what is different about you and this drive to work today? . . . what animals do the people you are stuck in traffic with look like? Which movie stars do they look like? Ask what makes this meeting, this time at your easel or workspace, this meal different?
4. Shadow, The Muse of the Dark Side
Stop the fighting inside your head between the inner critic and the inner critic disputer . . . Find the truth to everything you tell yourself. "You are not good enough" . . . add "yet" on the end and it may be true . . . however, the "yet" indicates that you can do something about it and motivates rather than eliminates. To be "good enough" . . . practice, be patient, take a class give yourself credit along the way. Next find the flip side of that same statement which is also true because we live in a spectrum of all conditions."There are many things you already are good enough at and this is good . . . embody that too." "There are already people doing what I want to do . . . why should I?' Truth . . . yes there may be many people doing it. That's okay . . . you "get to " do it too with your own unique brilliance and at your own pace. When we take the push-pull struggle away from our inner critic and our defensiveness, we free up energy and we are motivated to move on.
5. Marge, The Muse of Okay-Now-Let's-Get-Started
Choose not to overwhelm yourself. Wanting things too fast and too much is an epidemic these days. Unrealistic expectations result in immobilization. Knowing that we have a tendency to set unrealistic expectations gives us the awareness to start making really tiny steps . . . knowing that when they set us in motion we will keep going. Stop listening to all the motivation tapes and self help in a way that you think you must make big changes immediately . . . make a 5% change weekly . . . it adds up faster than no change because it's overwhelming.
Most of all . . . have fun and follow your passion.
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