Awesomeness

I have been reading the Fire Starter Sessions and am looking forward to diving into the worksheets at the end of each chapter. I can already see that they will at least help give direction to this project. In the mean time, I've gotten a start. Each week, I have decided to set out to experience or do at least one awesome thing a week. Having a cold last weekend felt like it was going to derail the project in its fragile fourth week, but I think I'm getting my feet under me again and have confidence that something truely awesome will turn up!

Unexpectedly Reinvigorated

I had thought that I was going to give up, once again, on this blog and this idea. Then, on Friday, I decided to check out a book that was featured in a new book email I received. I devoured the excerpt that I downloaded and within the hour had ordered the whole book. I probably would have read the entire thing by now, except that I decided that I would want the printed version of this book, as it looked like it would be something I'd want to consult again and again. I'm posting it here instead of over on thoughts because the book addresses the very thing I was setting out to do as my project: Learning to Dream Big. The book is The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte. So, when the book gets here, I'm going to start my project of Adventures in Dreaming Big. Quite possibly with guidance from the book. I'll check in then!

Prelude to Adventures in Dreaming Big

Several months ago, it was suggested that I could use more practice in dreaming big. In some ways, I think I'd expected that having the idea that I could dream bigger in mind would lead to having it happen. Since, mysteriously, this hasn't quite happened, I thought I might play with actually trying.

There's one problem with this. In order to dream big, there needs to something to dream big about. So stage one is to figure out what to dream big about.

There's the books. But the drafts are done and ready to be edited. And I'm not sure about publishing. I think I could, but I'm not sure I want to. Having my book on bookshelves would be cool, but it was never really the dream. Doesn't mean it can't be now, but it wasn't.

Beyond that, I may be even less sure. For the moment, I seem to be drawn to projects instead of big life goals. Like knit fingerless gloves. But that doesn't seem very big at the moment.

So, this is mostly an announcement of intent. Hopefully a good direction will occur to me soon, if not I may just try something and see what happens. Wish me luck!

Long Time Gone. Perhaps back soon.

I'm trying to decide if I'll come back to writing here. There's a possibility that I will. Even if I do, after the three year hiatus, it is unlikely that the updates would be much more regular than once they were. But who knows. I've given the site a facelift, and may decide to try playing with it again.