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New Approach

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I’ve repeatedly listened to parts of an audio book each night before falling asleep, it has been extremely interesting so far and I can’t seem to get it out of my mind since I’m thinking about its message all day long. I’m preparing today for an interview tomorrow morning at 09.00, who would’ve thought people would be ready for an interview first thing on Monday morning?

I thought they’d need to exchange weekend experiences first with their morning coffee? Not that I mind but 09.00 on a Monday morning seems strange to me. Anyway: this interview is part of the ‘new’ plan. The book is teaching me to have a different approach in life, to make things happen, to create your life the way you want it… I know… it all sounds too ‘new age’…

But it isn’t really, it’s based on logic, psychology and scientifically proven facts and the things that are said actually do make sense. So today I’m focusing on the new approach and in a few minutes after I’ve finished this post I will start to write down my plan… I have to admit it’s kinda exciting and scary in a way because you’ll have to face your ‘demons’ big time.

A lot became clear to me while listening to the book and I’m determined to try this new approach and make my quest work for me. It’s going to be an interesting journey from here and it will definitely show me some odd angles, it already has but they finally start to make sense and I can finally see why I made certain choices in the past or why I didn’t.

I no longer will be able to procrastinate or look for reasons why I believe I can’t do certain things, coz I can(!) it ‘just’ takes a new way of thinking… It already scares the hell out of me but that’s just another excuse to procrastinate *hehe*. Oh yes your mind is very good at tricking you right back into your easy comfort zone so you won’t have to face the issues…

Off now to prepare myself *wink*

Update Monday 15:18:56: the interview went really well but the funny bit was that both people opposite of me complained about the fact that they had to interview someone at 09.00 on a Monday morning and even mentioned the fact that that was a first to them *LOL* To me as well btw. I’m struggling with the plan, perhaps I’ll write more about this later… I need to answer certain questions that make me think… Deeper than usal and that is already pretty deep *wink*.

© Mabel Lucie Attwell

The Troglodyte

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I feel the need to think and be reclusive for a while so I can put my thoughts in order. I’ve started reading again which, in my case, is exceptional but I guess the words come looking for me in a different way when I decide to be quiet. It’s funny because it’s the book that I still haven’t finished *working on it though* and that I mentioned several times in previous posts. Last night I picked it up and started reading instead of playing a few of the very addictive Professor Layton puzzles on my Nintendo DS Lite…

In quiet moments, if there ever is one, I’m working on my business website which will be a combination of a front page representing the business, a flash portfolio with work examples and a blog where I’ll discuss design in general, my own work for clients and other design related topics. Quite often I receive emails from companies asking me to write something about a product, design contest or an event. I received one from New York last week with the same request but this is a personal blog so I’ll use my other outlet.

Last night I read a chapter about ‘The Red Shoes‘ with an explanation about the deeper meaning of this fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen: ‘when a woman has a famine of the soul, she will take any substitutes offered, including those that do absolutely nothing for her, as well as destructive and life-threatening ones that hideously waste her time and talents or expose her life to physical danger. It’s a famine that makes a woman choose things that will cause her to dance madly out of control too near the executioner’s door.’

‘And when we hit bottom, it is exactly there where the best soil is to sow and grow something new again. In that sense hitting bottom while extremely painful is also the sowing ground. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them…’ And that is exactly why I need to become the Troglodyte for a while: I want to create and design, be quiet, think, be in my own world/cave and like I said above allow answers to come looking for me, in other words: let things happen…

A very addictive game… with amazing drawings and cute characters, a mix of Japanese and European [Eurasian *hehe*]