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visual thinking

Knowing what you want

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want or you don’t want it intensely enough. ~Frank Crane I have a swirled response to that idea. Because sometimes knowing what you want becomes a work-in-progress, and the passionate intensity with which you pursue it is indeed {enough}. You simply are not “there” [...]

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Counting Days {Day 150}

The beginning is the most important part of the work. ~Plato Today is day 150 of 2010. There remain 215 days until the end of the year. As an experienced visual thinker — I see this is as an opportunity! An opportunity for a start line, a new beginning — a fresh start! Aren’t we [...]

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Picture

{A picture is worth a thousand words.} My most-accomplished plans occur when I plan in pictures {drawing; collage; graphics; photos; doodles}. Said plans keep my picture-processing mind focused and on-task. This week I am focusing on visual planning ala mind-mapping and {journal spilling}. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own [...]

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Planning in Color Time

As a right brain dominant thinker, creAtive planning is something I have always done — I simply didn’t compile notes about it until 2008! I began to track my optimum hours of productivity {and creativity} — and to collect information pertaining to creAtive ways to organize my days. If you are interested in joining in [...]

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Working from a blueprint

There is a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want; that you have thought everything through. Then, you put it into brick and mortar. Each day, you go to the construction shed and [...]

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Setting Goals {pArt 1}

One of the many perks I {adore and} enjoy about living in the country are the views: Wide open spaces with a big-sky canopy; tree lines; fields of wheat, cotton, alfalfa; plowed fields of red-dirt rows; cattle grazing; horses galloping … And miles and miles of barbed wire fences. I have never actually run a [...]

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Counting Days {Day 100}

Today is day 100 of 2010. There remain 265 days until the end of the year. As an experienced visual thinker — I see this is as an opportunity! An opportunity for a start line; I had been looking for one! A place to {begin again} — for “do overs.” To let myself off the [...]

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Anatomy of a Dream

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ~Anatole France The CED body theme continues to inspire me in extraordinary ways. This morning I was doing some research regarding some wellness issues I am facing …  I was drawn in by the parallels of the [...]

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Embracing randomness

Most of us can remember plans we had that worked out. And most of us can remember plans we had that started with a blaze of glory … only to drop outta the sky. Hitting the proverbial ground with a loud “splat!” Due to our own randomness or the randomness of the world around us. [...]

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Overwhelm? Creative Solutions

Overwhelm {for me} is like a window. Why? Because windows offer various utilities such as protection and inspiration {and are often a visual for opportunity}. I can look through it and see what is on the other side. I can close the blinds over it and savor rest in the still of darkness. I can [...]

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