Comments on: Daily habit 1: Start your day with “blank slate” thinking http://www.creativemaverick.com/2008/12/daily-habit-1-start-your-day-with-blank-slate-thinking/ JOHN WILLIAMS' BLOG ON CREATIVE WORKING, PLAYING & LIVING Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:56:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1 hourly 1 By: Jacqueline Burns http://www.creativemaverick.com/2008/12/daily-habit-1-start-your-day-with-blank-slate-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Jacqueline Burns Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:19:48 +0000 http://www.creativemaverick.com/?p=183#comment-32 Love the blog! I agree wholeheartedly about anti-goalism. Goals are too often about having, not being. And they can conceal what's really not working in our lives. You've inspired me to get one of my many unfinished book projects 'out from under the bed' and make regular time for it. Every day I urge my clients to make regular time to write; in 2009 I will coach and advise myself in the same way. Along with a single-glass of wine a day for the month of January - sigh - I am going to work a four hour day, using the focussed time slots you suggest, + 30 minutes on my book. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks John Love the blog! I agree wholeheartedly about anti-goalism.
Goals are too often about having, not being. And they can conceal
what’s really not working in our lives.

You’ve inspired me to get one of my many unfinished book projects ‘out from under the bed’ and make regular time for it. Every day I urge my clients to make regular time to write; in 2009 I will coach and advise myself in the same way.

Along with a single-glass of wine a day for the month of January - sigh -
I am going to work a four hour day, using the focussed time slots you suggest, + 30 minutes on my book. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks John

]]> By: Judith Morgan http://www.creativemaverick.com/2008/12/daily-habit-1-start-your-day-with-blank-slate-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Judith Morgan Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:52:45 +0000 http://www.creativemaverick.com/?p=183#comment-7 I am also, by the way, as you will have noticed, deeply anti-goals! J I am also, by the way, as you will have noticed, deeply anti-goals!
J

]]> By: John http://www.creativemaverick.com/2008/12/daily-habit-1-start-your-day-with-blank-slate-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-6 John Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:44:23 +0000 http://www.creativemaverick.com/?p=183#comment-6 Thanks Judith - indeed, you inspired the very first post "Let's take a year off". I need constant reminding myself to focus on what I really want and not be constrained by what I have previously done. Thanks Judith - indeed, you inspired the very first post “Let’s take a year off”. I need constant reminding myself to focus on what I really want and not be constrained by what I have previously done.

]]> By: Judith Morgan http://www.creativemaverick.com/2008/12/daily-habit-1-start-your-day-with-blank-slate-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Judith Morgan Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:36:21 +0000 http://www.creativemaverick.com/?p=183#comment-5 A couple of great posts, John, reminding me to subscribe! Rachel Turner, who was the business coach in The Money Gym before me asked three great questions of me when I was doing her module way back which are on topic here. If today were my last day on earth, what 3 things would I spend my day doing. At that time it was reading, writing and swimming (in the turquoise water ideally). Any day on which I do any combination of those now is a great day. It's important to know what we love and do lots of it. I always suggest to my clients that they do what they love and I believe I started you off on this thinking... if money were no object? I am doing it right now with lots of my clients and business partners AND one of my best client success stories ever came from giving a client permission to do only what she loved. Fortunately it turned out not to just be a self-actualisation exercise as she loves walking and now her clients pay her to walk with them for fitness purposes or walk and coach them. Yours is going to be a great 2009 and so will mine if I follow my own advice, reiterated here by you and the two Steves - Jobs and Pavlina, a couple of role models if ever we needed them! Rock on. J A couple of great posts, John, reminding me to subscribe!
Rachel Turner, who was the business coach in The Money Gym before me asked three great questions of me when I was doing her module way back which are on topic here. If today were my last day on earth, what 3 things would I spend my day doing. At that time it was reading, writing and swimming (in the turquoise water ideally). Any day on which I do any combination of those now is a great day. It’s important to know what we love and do lots of it. I always suggest to my clients that they do what they love and I believe I started you off on this thinking… if money were no object? I am doing it right now with lots of my clients and business partners AND one of my best client success stories ever came from giving a client permission to do only what she loved. Fortunately it turned out not to just be a self-actualisation exercise as she loves walking and now her clients pay her to walk with them for fitness purposes or walk and coach them.
Yours is going to be a great 2009 and so will mine if I follow my own advice, reiterated here by you and the two Steves - Jobs and Pavlina, a couple of role models if ever we needed them!
Rock on.
J

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