"...places to play in and pray in..." "...where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength..." "...to body and soul alike." John Muir. 'The Yosemite.' Full quote, to save you scrolling up and down!
0 Comments
"Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it. When you say, "It is my dominant intent to look for things that feel good today. No matter where I'm going, no matter what I'm doing, no matter who I'm doing it with, it is my dominant intent to look for what I'm wanting to see, to look for things that feel good," and the more you develop the habit of that kind of vibration—the more the Universe understands that that's who you are! And so, the more you have access only to those kinds of things!" ---Abraham Where am I? And how did I get here? I am a product of my choices. I am a mixed up mess of all the yes's and the no's and the slow pondered decisions. I am my successes and I am my failures. I am my trials and I am my fears and I am my doubts. I am my smiles and I am my triumphs and I am bounding along toward the next success. The next failure. "I like to think that I owe regrets, 'cause every What emotions rise when you look back over your failures, your regrets? What emotions come up when you look over your successes and your triumphs? Pen and paper out: Write down ten successes you had in your life till last year. What do you feel looking over your successes? Are they huge and impossible things; mine include graduating from university - four years of effort and learning. Having two healthy home births of my two boys - 9 months each of wrestling health authorities and deep learning. I swam 5Km in 1 hour 29mins when I was 16 - intense culmination of a lot of swimming training, 13 years of it! I qualified as a climbing, canoeing AND kayaking coach - bringing together technical knowledge and interpersonal skills and a huge amount of time outside in the sunshine (and rain, snow, hail...) What do I feel when I study those 'moments'? I get that swelling of pride, the 'hey, I did that!' moment. How is it for you? Pens at the ready... What did you do last year? Come up with 5 things. What have you succeeded at in the last four months? Five more. How about since the beginning of this month? Five more. What about last week? Five More successes. How about yesterday? Another five. And today? What successes have you had today? Five more. Notice something, how much more mundane are the recent successes? Today - it is (right now this very minute) Sunday at 8:12am - I have had little time or space for life changing success, right? What about getting the laundry done, the fish fed, the rabbit hutch opened, the few pages of my book read, the stairs run up and down a few times, breakfast eaten, the bed stripped. Query: Is life an amalgam of the university graduations and births and learning-to-drives and A-grades? Or is life a mix of getting the laundry on, the pets cared for, the small things that group up to make up life. Answer: Life is all of these things. Dedicating to the small, repetitious, mundane successes allows us to experience and enjoy them, and praise the mundane activities. Let the emotions of success flow over your mundane life and spread success throughout your life. Many Thanks Have a beauty-full day, ACM My big successes in short:
I graduated in 2005 with a BA in American Studies - history and literature and art and film and culture and life the universe and everything to do with the USA. I four year course of study and self-discovery and international adventure. Our birth stories: William was born in 2010 in the living room in a birth pool with two fantastic midwives present. Zachary was born in 2012 in (a different) living room, next to the birth pool just after I called the midwives to report the coming birth! No medical practitioners present. Two beauty-full births, just the way we wanted them. I did the BT Swimathon a few times, nailing my best time at one and a half hours when 16 years old. Thanks to weekly swimming club and some blind tenacity I smashed my 1:45 target and was cruising the 25metre pool averaging 29seconds per length. |
Archives
December 2017
Categories
All
AuthorAndy Clubley-Moore: joyful outdoor sports activist, writer, father, husband. Lover of life, activity, success and barefoot living. |