I received an invitation from Jenia Serebrin to speak at an online Masterclass on the 'Abundance Mindset'. As many of you know, I love the sound of my own voice! Only to intrigue, inspire and inform you understand. Not to brag. But I do like to talk and tell people about stuff.
It's been like this forever. As a little kid I'd tell "shaggy dog stories' about anything to anyone. Especially subjects which interested me but no one else. The same is still true today. Here is how my mind can work!
In the shower today, I was about to shampoo my recently cut hair. Mel doesnt like it as, "It's too short". Anyway, as I squirted a little shampoo into my hand, I realised I didn't need as much because my hair was shorter. Then I asked myself, "How much money will I save on shampoo over a year?" Then I realised I needed to factor in the extra shampoo I'd need. Because my hair was growing between haircuts. At that point I reined in my untamed brain. Not because I was was dissinterested. I don't have the calculus skills required! Usually, I keep these wanderings to myself. They happen unbidden many times a day. I used to try to keep them at bay. Now I realise they are the beautiful conseuqence of having a novel mind.
As to the progress of my book, I'm hard at it completely restructuring and re-writing. Nasty destabilising thoughts creep in. Backtracking happens daily. Yet, I'm ignoring all that and powering through.
Unless my muse draws me to the manuscript, I intend to take a break over the Christmas holiday. Hercule Poirot might say, "I am letting my little grey cells do the work."
This will be my first Christmas as an orphan. We lost in 2000 and Mum this September. I choose to remember her at her finest. Much of that was in her last months.
She will never read the final book. I've come to terms with that. A few weeks before she died Mel and I sat with Mum. I read a couple of the chapters to her. In these Mum is the focus, the hero. Typically, she picked me up on my grammatical errors, but on the whole she loved it. "You've written all that about me?" Self-deprecating to the very end. Never realising what a superstar she was.
However, you choose to spend this upcoming holiday, focus on the people who mean the most to you. Avoid distracts. It's the echoes we leave in people whcih add meaning to our lives.
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