I’m finding it hard to get going this year – 2012 has not gone off like a rocket for me because I’ve been poorly since the New Year’s Eve fireworks.
So I am totally with you if you can’t be doing with all this resolution/intentional living/goal-setting/big life stuff I’ve been going on about.
However, I have been incubating lots of ideas and projects and inspirations for when I do achieve lift-off in order to pacify the Urgency Monster. You know the one – the gremlin on your shoulder that never gives you a break because there are SO MANY THINGS TO DO and if you don’t GET THEM DONE RIGHT NOW everything will FALL APART and you will end up living in a CARDBOARD BOX…
Yes, that one. Its voice gets particularly loud in my ear in January, because it does that thing of overestimating how much I can get done in a day and underestimating what I can achieve in a year.
Luckily there is an antidote to the Urgency Monster, and that’s the Chilled Out Duck. My Chilled Out Duck sits in my bedroom, with not a care in the world, watching the world go by. He reminds me that there is an alternative to urgency and the need get stuff done.
My inspiration in all of this is one of the most playfully eccentric coaches I’ve ever come across. Her name is Havi Brooks – and she doesn’t like the word coach, or coaching – in fact she calls herself, among other things, the Director of the Playground or the Pirate Queen.
Havi’s business partner is a rubber duck called Selma (oh yes) and she specialises in destuckification (working through the stucknesses that get in the way) and talks to monsters. Check out her fab Destuckifying Monster Manual & Coloring Book at www.fluentself.com/monsters – seeing is believing.
Yesterday, my Urgency Monster gave me a headache. But I listened to the Chilled Out Duck and stayed in bed. Life went on, and today might be a better one on which to get the 2012 party started.
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