The Bliss Blog has been inspired to act. We've just finished watching a six o' clock re-run of UPN 's "Girlfriends." And as it relates to The Bliss Blogs, a character by the name of "Lynn" has six master's degrees with no career prospects on the horizon and no place to live. Lynn mooches off of her apathetic friends to get by as she comes up with the necessary excuses to bide her more time to not act. The character is by far a stretch (Hey wait! some of you may know extreme cases of healthy individuals who lolly gag from day to day....)
However The Bliss Blogs will not digress.
This particular blog's mission is to dispel active procrastination. A coined term that completely puts your bliss under arrest; even taking it hostage. It's not the type of procrastination where we all have experienced those fitful moments when we're just not ready to think, begin, or complete that thing we need to do. It's a more acute form of brain freeze.
Active Procrastination:
The ability to consistently skirt around the very thing you need to do to accomplish your goals and to fulfill your purpose. The sustained resistance in following through and directly connecting to your hearts truest desires. The ability of "making the connection and journey" to your bliss complicated. The "now is not the right time syndrome." AP is a more acute type of procrastination rooted in paralyzing fear, and a strong emotional attachment to a negative outcome; namely failure.
Example.
You don't know how to swim. You want to learn so you compile a reading list of swimming books when you know you should be signing up for a beginner's swimming class. Instead you sign up for a class in beginners Latin.
Example.
You live in New York, you need to get to New Jersey, but you take the Orient Express in China to get there.
The Bliss Blog so knows of AP. Because prior to creating the Bliss Blogs, its CEO had a severe case of AP. In plain language, that would be moi (accent). I read inspirational books, worshipped my favorite authors, and found my calling. But I refused to believe that I could possibly inspire someone on how to follow their bliss through my own writing.
We'll that's all changed now, thanks in part to taking that first step in faith. The simple truth is that most people have a hard time making that connection simply because they believe that they are not worthy. At The Bliss Blogs we assure you that this simple truth is the essence of all doubt, anxiety, confusion, brain freeze, and mind rot.
Reject the idea of failure. Resist the idea that there is only one way to do something. Resist the notion that you are not good enough. How can you fail? You only can learn by trial and error; by acting. Just think of all of the people you love and admire. Read biographies, and use them as your inspiration, because they will be the first to tell you that the journey to bliss was not easy, but always worth the trip!
Remember! Act directly and accordingly! Perfection is a silly, unattainable goal.
M.
No comments:
Post a Comment