brainstorming

The beauty of brainstorming is that you get to say and write things down that are so absurd and wild and it is all good. Most of our lives we are trying to do something right, but brainstorms are like mind doodling . You just say and write down whatever pops into your head. What is really great is to do it in a group. If someone else says something it might spark another thing in you.

Even the most wacky can have something useable in it. All great ideas start with fragments of ideas. Nobody gets the whole thing at once. those pieces are important so you should write them down and look at them over and over. When I paint I like to look at the same magazines over and over for new fragments. I also look at old paintings and try and see what it was that gave it a special quality that made it sell.

Your clients can tell you something about what to look for if you can identify why they actually bought a painting.

What common thing do they all have.

Nels Borg

Trying new things are scary. You dont know what will happen. I like Seth Godins idea of doing the thing that makes you nervous.

What makes you nervous and scared is what you should do. You are nervous because you will have a lot of pain if you don't succeed.

You have the most to lose and that is why you are nervous. The ironic thing is staying put is no less painful. doing nothing is doing something. It is killing time that you could be doing something you are afraid of doing. doing. Nothing is the worst thing you can do. Not changing is like being a sitting duck for somebody to pick you off.

Its better to try, try, try and do what you love than postpone trying till you have an easier time of it. You will NEVER have a better time than now, because now is all you really have.

I know a man who lost his job that he had for 20 years in lumber at 50 went back to school to be an xray tech and bought a fixer house at the same time. He was just going to tough it out. Then he had a heart attack and that set him back a bit with the surgery and recovery.

Now he has a job he loves and a house he totally redid and he is good to go in the body department. He is happy too. Really happy.

Nels Borg did all that and lived to tell us about it.

If you think about being scared think of Nels. At least you don't have a heart attack and if you do get one then still do it.

getting rid of something

Cleaning out things in your life that just sit there and are never used is like losing weight. You dont know how good it feels till you get rid of it. Things that people have given you over your life seem very hard to send on to a new place. Old habits are hard to give up as well as old ways of thinking.

It is a always easier to not grow than to grow.

Growing needs space and pain and support to happen.

I just got back from a four day juice fast at Soap Lake with my friend. I could not have done it without her doing it too. Company makes pain and will power all the easier.

It is also easier to have courage if you are not alone,

Sometimes it takes courage to throw old things out because we think something bad will happen. We think what if the person who gave this to me comes over someday and it is not here and you will be embarrassed.

This is actually extremely funny because people usually forget what they gave you and if they do remember giving someone something they should feel worse if you were keeping it just to please them.

If somebody does care about it then they need to learn to give with no strings attached. You are helping them learn that .

Get rid of anything that is not bringing you to a better place.