Prolific Living

For the Mind

Part 2: How to Capture the Ideas Worth Pursuing

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Ideas Captured in a Book

This article is part of a 3-series. Go here for Part 1 and Part 3.

Ideas are born of your freedom to live life on your own terms, of creativity and of a desire to do things in your own way. Ideas are proofs to your independence as a thinker and a doer. Ideas fuel your self-confidence and fill up your desire to express yourself. Ideas are the seeds of great things in your life and can grow to sustain your ideal life if you capture and nurture them.

So to good ideas, you must hold on, just as you would to a long lost friend, to a special memory, or your own childhood work of art (I have all of one drawing that made it from my childhood, thanks to my sweet cousin who kept it from 30 years ago but I digress). With the right cues and questions, you will uncover those brilliant ideas from the sea of many that hit you in the course of the day — or for those of you with an overactive imagination, in one hour. [Read more…] about Part 2: How to Capture the Ideas Worth Pursuing

Part 1: How to Recognize an Idea Worth Pursuing

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Ideas into Action - and writing in the sand

This article is part of a 3-series. Go here for Part 2 and Part 3.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has them. Things we should do; things we should stop doing. Or things we could be doing, creating, producing, changing, enhancing, trying, living, or just dreaming. It does not take a special person to think of ideas. Even little kiddies have ideas — mostly bad ones with consequence but they do have ideas.

A healthy, functioning brain and body has thoughts, desires, opinions, aspirations, and oh yes, emotions. The thought of going through a day without a single idea is unimaginable to me. I have a hard time keeping track of mine, and you know what? [Read more…] about Part 1: How to Recognize an Idea Worth Pursuing

Depression: How to Recognize it and Regain Control

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Avoid Depression - Faces of Berlin key chains

How inconvenient that it takes extreme sickness, the onset of depression and the depth of frustration to make us wake up to the reality of the situations in our lives! How annoying that it takes a mountain of stress to make us realize the harm we are doing to our bodies and the poison we are putting into our pure intentions!

Sometimes, a wake up call is just too rude and the awakening resulting from it far too unavoidable. Taking a risk – with every uncomfortable turn in our stomach – becomes more palatable than not taking one because the fear of regret is not just the greatest fear in our path, it should be the only fear! [Read more…] about Depression: How to Recognize it and Regain Control

Early Rising: Falling into a Rhythm

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Breeze at dawn in Hawaii

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want
Don’t go back to sleep
Rumi, 13th century Persian poet

In 2006, I read an article by Steve Pavlina on becoming an early riser. I was instantly enthralled. That happens to me a lot, by the way. Green juicing is another example but the early rising story is much better.

Now I know it is easy to be enthralled with ideas when you are not able to even begin to imagine what it takes to accomplish them.

And enthralled I was.

For the next three years, I was undeterred in becoming an early riser [Read more…] about Early Rising: Falling into a Rhythm

How to Awaken, Build and Guard your Dreams

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Light up your dreams

How to Awaken a Dormant Dream

Have you ever had a dream so strong that you spent your waking hours toiling away as if there were no tomorrow, as if today was all you had?

Have you known a dream so alive inside your every cell that you were afraid to fall asleep lest you do not wake up feeling the same way?

Have you had a dream so firmly grounded in your mind and so permanently tugged at your heart that it was simply impossible to abandon it, even against the worst odds?

If you thought you had a dream but these questions did not resonate with you, don’t lose heart!

Your dream could just be dormant, sleeping under the surface waiting desperately to wake up.

My dreams, I shoved down so deep and so harshly for so many years that it is a miracle they did not abandon me in the way I abandoned them.

Do not abandon your dreams. [Read more…] about How to Awaken, Build and Guard your Dreams

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