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Feeling Stuck?
Feeling Stuck? 100 Ways to Change your Life
by Nora Dunn on 9 February 2008 (109 comments)
You've got 20 minutes to change your life in 100 ways. Go.
This is the premise of an exercise I tried once, when I was feeling stuck in life. I wasn't sure what was amiss, but the routine I had fallen into was not satisfying the inner voice in me that insisted there was something else out there for me.
After trying (forcefully) to understand what was going on, reading self-help books, filling out aptitude tests, and working with business and life coaches, I was given a suggestion that became a catalyst for some pretty big personal changes.
Here is how you can change your life in 20 minutes, step by step:
Clear all distractions. Turn off the phone, the tv, the computer. Lock your door, and go to a quiet place.
Sit down comfortably at a desk or table, with a blank piece of paper and a pen in front of you.
Set a timer for 20 minutes.
Go. Write down 100 things you want to do. Or careers you want to have. Or people you would like to meet. The sky is the limit.
Don’t be realistic. Dream big. Write down the craziest things you can think of, as well as the things that you don't even think bear mentioning because they are so simple. Write it all down.
Work quickly. 20 minutes isn't very long, and you have 100 items to get through, if you can. Don't think about whether or not to write down an idea - just write. Write everything that comes to mind, even if it doesn't make sense. Just keep on writing, and don't stop until that timer goes off.
Something happens after about 10 or 15 minutes if you employ the exercise to its full potential. You stop caring about what specifically the ideas are, and you start to release an inner creativity that may have been locked away for a while. In an effort to get through 100 things in 20 minutes, you start to write outlandish things down that you aren't even really sure you want, but that are ideas that came to you nonetheless.
by Nora Dunn on 9 February 2008 (109 comments)
You've got 20 minutes to change your life in 100 ways. Go.
This is the premise of an exercise I tried once, when I was feeling stuck in life. I wasn't sure what was amiss, but the routine I had fallen into was not satisfying the inner voice in me that insisted there was something else out there for me.
After trying (forcefully) to understand what was going on, reading self-help books, filling out aptitude tests, and working with business and life coaches, I was given a suggestion that became a catalyst for some pretty big personal changes.
Here is how you can change your life in 20 minutes, step by step:
Clear all distractions. Turn off the phone, the tv, the computer. Lock your door, and go to a quiet place.
Sit down comfortably at a desk or table, with a blank piece of paper and a pen in front of you.
Set a timer for 20 minutes.
Go. Write down 100 things you want to do. Or careers you want to have. Or people you would like to meet. The sky is the limit.
Don’t be realistic. Dream big. Write down the craziest things you can think of, as well as the things that you don't even think bear mentioning because they are so simple. Write it all down.
Work quickly. 20 minutes isn't very long, and you have 100 items to get through, if you can. Don't think about whether or not to write down an idea - just write. Write everything that comes to mind, even if it doesn't make sense. Just keep on writing, and don't stop until that timer goes off.
Something happens after about 10 or 15 minutes if you employ the exercise to its full potential. You stop caring about what specifically the ideas are, and you start to release an inner creativity that may have been locked away for a while. In an effort to get through 100 things in 20 minutes, you start to write outlandish things down that you aren't even really sure you want, but that are ideas that came to you nonetheless.
If you allow your mind true freedom for thoughts, you will get horrible thoughts initially. If you ignore these thoughts, good thoughts will emerge gradually.
If you get good thoughts initially, believe that your true consciousness is not coming out. It is your conditioning and culture which brings out these thoughts. So this will be a long term exercise, leading ultimately to catharsis. This is the observation of a Guru.
If you get good thoughts initially, believe that your true consciousness is not coming out. It is your conditioning and culture which brings out these thoughts. So this will be a long term exercise, leading ultimately to catharsis. This is the observation of a Guru.
Ok I did it. lol. It was fun and I was surprised by half the stuff I'd written...
Now I need to do something about all that stuff I wrote. I don't want the ideas and exercise to go to waste. :D
Now I need to do something about all that stuff I wrote. I don't want the ideas and exercise to go to waste. :D
No pressure :-))) Take your time. Life is filled with so many choices. You would probably like what I looked at last night.
'Hundred ways to change life' The idia is so good, that I am delaying to do it, least i may fail to aceive what i expect. So i am trying to gather courage to do this exercise. I hope i do it in a week's time.
This is a great exercise. This is something that I need to do! ♥
I love seeking & asking questions...in the course, I find things :-))
interesting where do you find all this stuff
Neat. I think I'll try it sometime. :D
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