Strategy and tactics (3)

Aug. 20th, 2004 01:23 am
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The feet on the path are all mine.

Focus on each step, no matter how small.
    Some things that happen in a week:

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    I want to be.
    I want to be great.
    I want to dance better.
    I want to live healthier.
    I want to be happy at work.
    I want to be better organized.
    I want to see friends more often.
    I want to listen to a lot of music.
    I want to be both seen *and* heard.
    I want to be actively listened to.
    I want to take care of myself first.
    I want to take more days off work.
    I want to have better connection.
    I want more of what I want.
    I want to be considered.
    I want to play more.
    I want who I want.
    I want to dream.
    I want light.
    I want to.
    I want.
    I need.
    I am.
Just for today I will take a compliment
and hold it in my heart for more than just
a fleeting moment. I will let it nurture me.
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Material in the spiritual world (4)

Jul. 16th, 2004 01:00 am
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Invoke often. Banish often.

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Before you go to sleep tonight, carve
a doorway in the darkness with your mind.
Be sure to visualize the approximate situation
you wish to encounter on the other side.
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Strategy and tactics (2)

Jul. 11th, 2004 05:23 am
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Begin to consider what you can do
just this week, just today, just this hour.
How small do you need to make the time frame
in order to feel positive? Don't worry about
details; focus on just one baby step. What can
you accomplish in the next five minutes?

Move your body; narrow your focus; take action.
    Some things that happen in a weekend:

    Carry-out Cincinnati chili with sour cream.
    A glass of amaretto w/peach schnapps.
    Watching part of a favorite videotape.
    Get solid sleep. Emergency laundry time.
    See a brace of films by Orson Welles.
    Greeting some old friends in passing.
    Review new search engine documentation.
    Steam is rising off the Potomac River.
    Out dancing to a rare appearance by a
    traditional big band at Glen Echo -
    go through three shirts, two towels,
    lots of trips to the water fountain, and
    a life-saving bottle of berry Gatorade.
    Meet up late-night with an Oreo milkshake.
    Sun-dry sheets while walking to Courthouse
    for some iced chai. Continue with laundry.
    Plan for an hour of yard work (with water).
    Work on summary documents for presentation
    on the e-gov standards usability testing.
    Color hair. Get ready for this busy week of
    training + work + home + life. Pet cats.

    Let's take July one step at a time.
Fear comes with the territory.
Stop thinking that fear must vanish
before you can start a project. Fear
is part of life. You'll hear it when
you're perched on your growing edge.
Tilt your head to listen -- and then
press on. Demystify the fear by saying,
'There's the same old fear sitting on my shoulder.
I'll just go about my business.'
from _Stress Reduction for Busy People_
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What does it all mean, anyway? (1)

Jul. 1st, 2004 11:07 pm
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Let the waters settle -
you will see stars and moon
mirrored in your being.
-Rumi

Before going to bed each night,
think of at least three things
you did today of which you are proud.
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Folks (1)

Jun. 24th, 2004 01:17 am
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Some random pix from the Washington Folk Festival:

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Living death

Jun. 9th, 2004 10:29 pm
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I will fulfill my promise.
    Avoided the madness in downtown DC tonite
    by going up to the AFI in Silver Spring MD
    and seeing _Casablanca_ on the big screen
    instead, for the first time in many years.

    Watching it after a year of taking pictures
    had much the same effect as the first time
    I reread _Lord of the Rings_ after studying
    literary criticism. I was fascinated by the
    light and shadow effects in certain scenes,
    and especially how consciously Ingrid Bergman
    was posed and framed in light and by shadow.

    It made me want to buy a better camera.

    It made me want to work for a better world.

    It made me think about love, and sacrifice.

We don't receive wisdom;
we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one
can take for us or spare us.
-Marcel Proust
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12 - 39 - 1000 - hike!

May. 21st, 2004 12:20 pm
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This idea came via Dave Hogg,
who got it in turn from dmmaus.

Rules:

  1. Start just outside your front door.

  2. Take 100 steps.

  3. Take a photo of whatever looks interesting.

  4. Take another 100 steps, take another photo.

  5. Repeat until you have walked at least 1000 steps, more if you wish.

  6. Post photos with comments.


Tips:
* Try to mix it up a bit. Streetscapes, landscapes, interiors, candid portraits, close ups, etc.
* Bend the rules if you want.

I often mention my walk to work
in the mornings in my LJ, so I hope
this view of some of the things I see
may be an interesting window for you
into a part of my time and space...
( Links to pictures, captions, and explanations... )
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The pattern

Apr. 29th, 2004 06:56 pm
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"If you see a whole thing - it seems that
it's always beautiful. Planets, lives....
But close up a world's all dirt and rocks.
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired,
you lose the pattern."
Ursula K LeGuin, "The Princess"
    Work is currently crazy and busy and stressful.
    Outside of work, things feel disjointed - chaotic.
    Right now, my life feels full of tiny frustrations,
    bruised by collisions between my dreaming and my reality.
    I do try to make amusing stories out of them - with
    myself cast as the ruefully laughing goat - but inside
    I may be suffering from the contusions of daily life.
    Be gentle with your laughter. Be kind to my spirits!

    I need to remember to step a step back sometimes
    and to review all the paths that I am following.

    And I will value even my stumbles and bruises
    when they arise from fuller engagements between
    what my path is, and what I am trying to achieve.

    If the goal is overwhelming,
    it's okay to take baby steps.
    My goal is not just to survive,
    but to live.
POSITIVE RESPONSE TO FAILURE will be used only if
a viewer has failed to complete a task. It will follow
ENCOURAGEMENT AFTER DIFFICULTY.
-from Design Patterns for i-Media
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Good morning, good morning

Apr. 21st, 2004 11:30 am
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A tale of going east to west to north to south,
and around and around and around to come out: here.
    5:02 AM. The arrival phone call from the airport.
    Rise up and out of the house in ten minutes flat,
    a mug of Pepsi One wedged next to the parking brake.
    Off to Dulles. Roadway empty, sky a sullen blue.
    A lighted flag, lifted only slightly by the breeze,
    is vivid against the heavy cloud cover in the west.
    Pick up around 5:40. The airport turnaround brings
    to view a softer blue growing behind breaking clouds.
    Traffic on the road just traveled picking up quickly
    as business people push to make their flying daytrips.
    On autopilot, see the 495-N sign but miss the exit.
    Knowing this route well, cloverleaf to reverse course
    again just before a 6 AM 66-E backup swallows all hope.
    Around Beltway. up Parkway, all against commuter flow.
    Friendly chatter about well-known things and mysteries
    as the suitcase and guitar rattle together in the back.
    Dawn is still hidden behind the passing cloudwall as
    I leave Laurel at 6:40. Later would have been too late;
    295-S thickens several times like a snake eating mice.
    At Pennsylvania East the first rays of sunlight hit.
    Do de loop de loop one last time to change direction,
    from south to west-south-west, and open the car windows
    to chill my bare arms before picking up hot chai tea.

    Home at 7:40. Still dew on the tulips and a lonely iris,
    and the fancy coral azalea blooms slowly in the shade.

Got the time tick-tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Got the time tick-tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Got the time tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-
Joe Jackson
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Whispers of the heart

Apr. 10th, 2004 02:41 pm
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    Open eye, see clock, shut eye, sleep in.
    Morning hazy, but afternoon cleared up nicely.
    Pulled on my brightest pair of blue jeans and
    my oldest George Thorogood concert T-shirt,
    and ran some errands to the dual soundtrack of
    Robert Palmer (in the car) and Bonnie Raitt
    (outdoors at the plaza). Checks are deposited.
    New pens for the erasable calendar acquired.
    Picked up my weekly chai and then came back home
    to turn off the heat and open my bedroom windows.
    A small black and white cat sits on the sill.
    Her sparkling fur is red-tinted by direct sun,
    and she twitches as birds and squirrels pass by.
    Tomorrow may rain, but from today, I have sunshine.
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Time and money

Mar. 29th, 2004 11:45 am
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A deep storehouse of extremely positive thinking
manifests within me in any situation of need.
    I sometimes stress out about time and money.

    ( Money: )
I already possess within me anything I need
to become anything I want to be.

I have a rich collection of friends who value my qualities.

I take care of myself, but I ask for help when I need it.
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Air to earth, air to earth

Mar. 15th, 2004 02:26 pm
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Fruit juice everywhere...
-Thomas Dolby
    The swallows and the starlings return, but
    are only pinpricks hovering high in a cold blue sky.
    A icy March wind passes through me while flying north,
    chilling face and hands, driving spring into retreat.

    I drop my eyes from the horizon to the ground.
    I drop all expectations from my point of view.
    I narrow my field of vision, I focus on what is,
    reducing the journey to a single step at a time.
    I watch myself putting one foot in front of the other.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
-Kahlil Gibran
    I am responsible for my thoughts and feelings.
    I am responsible for my needs.
    I am responsible for myself.
    I take care of myself.
    I have within myself the answers to all my needs.
    I can fill all my needs
    if I am willing to pay the price.
Many of us are on this journey together
and yet we are separated, for whatever reasons.
We feel lost, with no direction or guidance on
what we are to do next. We are fearful of
taking a risk and reaching out... afraid that
we will be abandoned or rejected along the way.
So we choose to keep to ourselves and miss out
on the opportunities our life holds before us.
This is not an easy journey.
HopeAllianz Counseling
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Red light, green light

Feb. 29th, 2004 01:00 am
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The worst imprisonment is the one
we impose on ourselves.
-Deng Ming-Dao
    It's okay to be afraid.
    It's okay to ask for help.
    It's okay to try and fail.
    It's okay to try again.
    Be willing to take some risks,
    deal with some resistance,
    tolerate some discomfort, and
    temporarily retreat if needed.
    Go through the trap door if you have to.
    Try again and again in different situations.
    Trust your own pace - take your own strides.
    Let go of the need for complete control,
    reward yourself for all your successes,
    breathe deeply and go with the flow, and
    be ready to give yourself a good talking to.
    Expect and know how to handle setbacks.
    Try again and again under different circumstances.
    Be prepared to experience strong emotions.
    Follow through to some sense of completion.
    If your goal is overwhelming,
    it's okay to take baby steps.

    My goal is not just to survive, but to live.

    modified from instructions in Bourne's _Anxiety & Phobia Workbook_, 3rd ed.
You may be capable of great things.
But life consists of small things.
-Deng Ming-Dao
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God of Fortune is beckoning you, revisited

Jan. 31st, 2004 01:09 am
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The Universe is always seeking opportunities
for me to move in new and wonderful areas
of work and advancement.

Today, act as if you are queen of your universe,
and carry that empowered feeling into tomorrow.
    I just had to make
    an unexpected, difficult job-related decision.

    Within a 24 hour time period.

    While still trying to get 16 hours of work done. :)

    I decided based on some hard information,
    some careful reading between the lines,
    and a certain amount of intuition.

    No, I don't know if this is a mistake or not.
    I expect I won't know for a while yet,
    and I'll almost certainly never know
    what taking the other path would have done.

    But even when I make mistakes or fail,
    I will know that I am not the failure.
    It's ok to take risks and make mistakes.
    And I'm willing to accept any mistakes,
    and to learn from them. I have the right
    to make mistakes and not be perfect.

    I own my ideals, my dreams, my hopes,
    my fantasies, my fears.

    (And yes, when The Universe tries
    its best to move me out of a rut,
    I do pay attention. Thanks, Uni --
    I think. :)
The Universe provides for everything
that I need to achieve my dreams and goals.

I believe that I have
the power and the strength
to achieve all my dreams.
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One life to live

Jan. 23rd, 2004 08:14 am
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Each day my life is filled with wonders and magic.
    I have a life.
    I have one life.
    I have this life.
    Why waste time being unhappy?
    I could worry about things I can't change
    and waste a lot of time and energy on them.

    Or, I can concentrate on the good stuff.

    I do acknowledge negative thoughts and feelings
    but then I return to my own positive focus.

    I may feel compassion for others' problems
    but I choose to be responsible for myself.

    I am my own person, running along my own path,
    but thank you for sharing my journey sometimes.
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Go with the flow

Dec. 29th, 2003 11:15 pm
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Tao is a person running along a path.
-Deng Ming Dao
    Sometimes, I can fly.
    Other times, I may envy an inchworm its progress.

    Unexpected obstacles are hardest to take, but I
    believe that challenges and changes are growth.

    Yes, loss is painful, but it does not wipe out gain.

    I gained so much this year from what others shared with me -
    listening, instruction, consideration, knowledge, and love.
    And I gained so much this year from what I shared with others -
    strength, flexibility, weakness, resistance, and good will.

    I accept that I am a stronger person
    today and every day
    because of my life's circumstances,
    and I am grateful for that.

    Today I will accept what crosses my path
    with dignity and respect.

    Today I will accept who follows my path
    with dignity and respect.
Just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
-me
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