Today I'm working on my branding so I'm casting wishes out there to gather the creativity, intuition and insight to bring together the wonderful idea that I know is just there...
Just because I'm re-organising doesn't mean everything has to change. I like the idea of Wednesday Wishcasting and so popping over to Jamie Ridler studios on a Wednesday for now is a keeper. Albeit Jamie seems to be short, or late on wishes today.
I am learning daily about the beauty of enough, and wish everyone enough. This past year my son has been suffering from, what we now know to be, pseudo seizures. They are scary enough to watch and I can only try to imagine how scary it is on the other side of them. We had a really good day at the beginning of last week where he got up, and went for a walk round the park before going to school. I had been giving some thought to defining happy - and that was 'enough'. My hopes and wants have scaled back tremendously over this past year. To have some happy, healthy, quality time with family - that is ENOUGH - in fact it felt almost overwhelmingly more so.
May all your wishes be cast into the world and bring back ENOUGH.
I originally started writing this post a few weeks ago. I had planned on tying together the Storytelling for Change Labs I've been doing and what I really want The MacsX to be.
As I put my necklace on this morning I had that ‘aha’
moment. That’s the story I want to
tell. What I like to call the story of
WHEN.
I’m sitting on the top deck of a London bus looking through
the window. And then I stop looking
through and start looking in. Etched in
the window is the word WHEN. And it’s as
if that window is speaking to me – bear in mind that I am on the edge of a
major melt down – WHEN? When does my
life start? when do I get what I want? When do I get off?(and I don’t mean the
bus). There were a whole host of other
questions that really needed to be asked.
But it was if I were hearing my own voice for the first time in a very
long time. Really hearing me. And really
recognising that I was not happy with my lot – sure I had loads to be grateful
for but I hadn’t found ‘it’. What I
wanted to be when I grew up – ‘happy’.
That one word etched in the window in August 2004 was the beginning of a
monumental journey, which I take a new step on each day. I am Catherine McAtier and in finding my
authenticity I hope to light the way for others. And NOW is WHEN.
That was how the day started then life took over and I got kind of derailed. This is the first Wednesday in what seems like forever I've been able to get back to focusing on the MacsX. Working my way through my Feedly stuff I was delighted to see my #ImaPiece jigsaw piece included in the Craftivist Collective post today. My piece is end right on the middle row.
And the when messages just keep on coming, I especially love the 'dispel the "I'll be happy when..." myth' over at Kind Over Matter This was posted on Monday but I'm playing Feedly catch up today.
So, today I'm finally getting back to some semblance of order - and getting to use what I've got. I have a whole host of info on Feedly, I seem to be finding pins worth looking at over on Pinterest and I'm looking forward to getting my Etsy Shop back on track with a new improved look (more later...).
And finally over at Jamie Ridler Studios it's back to Wishcasting Wednesday - Today's prompt is What Do You Wish to ....
Me, I want to discover my Authentic Life, I've been doing some work in the background between life's interruptions and hope to put all my discoveries together very soon. So far my moon board is kind of moon oriented but over the next week or so I'm hoping to add some wishes.
In the meantime I wish everything my fellow wishcasters wish for themselves and may they discover their wishes in the way and at a time that is best for them.
It may be Monday but it's still the weekend - yay for Bank Holidays - so I'm putting my Sunday BS together a little late and not starting this week till tomorrow - having a kind of limbo day.
The week just gone
The week started with my son visiting A&E and a frustrating day spent with the NHS. If one more person tells me they can "understand my frustration" I swear I will scream. Yet by the end of the week I am feeling calm, rested and present.
I've spent the best (or worst) part of a year checked out - as an onlooker, watching life go on around me and not even touching the sides. So, what's changed in 7 days?
The lovely ladies in my Storytelling for Change group just understood that this was 'not a good week' and so there was a break from any added responsibility. In my day job I have become more connected, I feel like I've at last started turning up again, like an invisible line has been drawn under things past and now it just is what it is - no underlying agendas.
And with regard to my son's (and my) health I guess the change has been in attitude. We've been so busy looking for a label, believing that there could be no 'cure' before that was found. Why would I find that more frustrating than most? Because I don't really go for labels, I believe in taking in the whole picture. I have spent so much time dismantling the pigeon holes in my life that the mere action of creating another box was just so 'wrong'. So, to move ahead boxes, labels and shoulds have all been thrown out the window. The focus is on being present - living the way we want to live now. Sometimes the answer is right in front of you, all around you - sometimes, if not always, the first thing to do is look at what we have.
And in keeping with using what I have - I think I've done enough research to move on as Seth Godin put it "All the information in the world isn't helping you make more stuff. You have enough. You should stop."
The whole 'using what you've got' thing is part and parcel of the message behind the birth of this blog and The MacsX - so time to get back to the message and go with it. And what's going to make this time different to all the other stop starts that have gone in the past. Belief. Belief that it just 'is'.
The week’s discoveries/rediscoveries:
Lissa Rankin's Ted Talk
My first 'Ted Talk ' - and there are so many more to see.
