Thinking Blossoms

What's been stopping you? - part three

This is turning into a bit of a theme and after writing the last blog I realised there were at least two more things stopping me.

One thing holding me back was that I wasn't ready in all ways. Parts of me had to catch up with the rest. that's a seriously important one.  There certainly are times when the gap between the conception of an idea and the birth of what follows from it is a very short gap, but not always. Gestation with some species of project takes longer. Allowing oneself to be stopped while pondering further and getting on with life and work in other ways is vital at times.

So the 'what' that's been stopping me has been important work for me to be doing on the inside. This reminds me of what Lourdes Callen says in her chapter in my book Good Question! (look over there on the left). She offers the question  ' What is your question?' and says:

"Questions open the way to meeting the future and bringing it about. It takes time for them to be perceived in our inner world, expressed and then carried with us. Sometimes we have to live with a question that is part of 'The riddle of life' and it only gets solved over time.

Living with questions brings home the need for inner strengthening. Then we can feel all right even though we do not have all the answers or solutions yet.'

And I feel great!

Why this particular photo?

What's Been Stopping You? - part two

The point of this question is that we often have things that we are genuinely wanting to do but we aren't. Completely other things are happening instead. It's a variation on 'What's Stopping You?' Which is quite a traditional question people ask when someone is  talking about their dreams, possibly in a wistful way or with a few sighs. It almost gives permission to go ahead in the asking of the question. Throwing 'been' in there, as my magnificent NLP friend Tony Burgess of Aha! pointed out, already puts the block as disappearing into the past with the way clear.

The point of the photo in this context is the choices to be made, this path or that. Would that life were as simple as two choices in this  treble-filled busy century, but you get the point. Ah! There are footprints! others have travelled these paths already.

I think what's been stopping me blog (this is the continuation of the previous posting) is that I've been busy figuring out how to describe/develop/package up what I do in a way that isn't a bunch of platitudes or so general that it isn't clear. So it's me standing there taking the photo and thinking about which directions to take. And it's me knowing others have passed this way and are ready to help. I've gathered excellent royal advisers and helpers. I'm almost at the point of telling you what I'm up to but I'm not, quite. I need to ponder just a little  further because I sense there's something else stopping me. So that will be another posting soon. Watch this space!

What's been Stopping You?

Well it's definitely time I blogged and a kindly prod from Judith Morgan of www.moneygym.com was a very helpful reminder. What's been stopping me? Good question, and one I ask other people to excellent effect. So now I'm turning the wiggly finger round towards me...

Number one, hibernation and the flu season. Well, I can't use that excuse any more. The snow has gone and so has the flu. It's warmed up and there's buds all around about to burst. Perhaps I've been like that in some ways, quite tightly shut as far as one could tell from the outside but a lot going on inside. 

I took this snap of budding snowdrops when crunching back through snow to the house with logs and it was very nice noticing something almost in flower even while it was as wintery as it gets, and very cold.

Then, when I was in my mastermind group and we were telling each other about our successes I was saying 'I've started this and I've started that..'. It was very affirming when one of the group gave me a knowing look and said 'That's about right isn't it?', meaning, I assume, about right for the time of year. And it does feel right. Quietly developing my business, dreaming up new possibilities with every hope that it will all be as blossoming and full of life as a garden, in time.. 

And one of the starts is going to the gym, not something I've done before but now I'm going regularly and starting to feel the better for it, stronger and more energy. So right now I'm setting off there along by gardens where things are starting to happen and in patches of sunlight that is starting to feel very springlike. In fact I almost have to run to keep up with the time of year now.

Number two reason that's been stopping me? A topic for the next blog ;-)