Want more energy? Read on to discover how it is as easy as snapping your fingers and saying ABRACADABRA!
I hear different versions of this all the time:
"I wish I had your energy."
Are you ready for a dose of irony?
The reason I have energy for my projects and adventures is specifically connected with how I approach whatever shows up in my day. I usually have a plan of sorts, a routine I enjoy following the most, but as a Mom - Entreprenuer - Artist and everything else I do, this is not always easy.
It is easy, though, to carry my creative self along when I am doing "drudgery on my to-do list" by being alert to whatever delights me as I move through the kidschlep or the grocery shopping or the meeting with teachers or this or that committee meeting.
At least one day a week, for example, I drop my daughter at school at 7:25 am and then go seeking photo ops. Sometimes I go to a specific place but often times I just wait for something in my line of sight to inspire me.
Again, because of the mindset and the intention, I continually find things that inspire me.
Might these items seem exciting to everyone?
I doubt it.
Yet when you look at the sun just so and rearrange your line of vision, suddenly everything changes.
Each time I take a mini-jaunt where I allow my creative side the room to roam, I am energized. It isn't as if I intend to be energized, I simply intend to be creative and the energy follows along, gleefully.
Therein lies the secret: you do have my energy.
It lives in your mindset, your intentions and the actions you take because of your mindset and intentions.
Here's your challenge: today give that creative life force that flows through your blood space to play. You don't have to change any particular "to do" in your life, it is instead a "to be". If you want to be more creative, you don't have to take a class.
You may need to look at the view at your window differently. Many of us begin with phonetography. Shoot whatever intrigues you, even if only for a split second. Take some more shots.
Put your phone away and go about your day.
When you have another smidge of time, look what you created from the space of beginners mind. What do you see in those photos? How are you reflected in those photos? Are there any metaphors or comparisons that rise up right away?
Hopefully you have an old fashioned notebook or journal around. Scribble some notes. Go to sleep. Wake up and watch what happens to your routine.
If you practice this for several days - that is all it takes - the world as you see it will change.
Your life as you see it will change.
People will say to you, "I wish I had your energy!"
Oh, they do - they just haven't been shown yet.
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Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at a First Friday soon, when it is warmer than it was in December!, in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.
