Detachment & Discipline
I haven’t posted much these last few days. I have been tasked with writing numerous posts and articles for other publications - all relevant - but distracting from the main business of getting my own stuff down. It strikes me however that this can all be for the good.
I have found that my thoughts and reflections around being a ‘rebel in a business suit’ have morphed and changed and evolved so that the message is clearer and more defined. It strikes me that two things are required for good writing - detachment and discipline.
Detachment from the subject is required so that the mind is given free rein to assimilate and synthesise earlier ideas - ensuring that one’s thinking does not follow a narrow path. Detachment is also important so that one can view the effect of one’s ideas on others when one has a chance to discuss them - and then take that response on board in order to make one’s message more meaningful.
Discipline to sit and write is the next one. Actually sitting down each day and getting something down is a habit of personal discipline - and one which requires cultivation. I’m afraid that I don’t have it yet but perhaps this process of writing might help me with developing both thesed valuable life-traits. Traits that can transform a life.
January 19th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Hey love - I just heard you on Passion For The Planet, and really resonated with your words. My business is run on the principles you outline, though I’m a right brained genius and had no ability to recognise it into such linear terms! So thanks!!!
Re your discipline… I have the same issues, am writing two books at the moment. My motivation is knowing those books will change lives quickly, so it’s my karma to do it. Do it alongside something you love, like sitting down to a hot chocolate drink, for example, and you’ll Pavlov’s Doggise yourself almost instantly - your body will get into pleasure mode every time you sit down to write, so you’ll have to then find ways to stop yourself! Hope this helps!
Love!
Shazzie x
January 21st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Shazzie,
Love the motivation idea - pleasure mode when writing - I can certainly go for that!! Check out http://www.rebelisland.net and join the group on-line. I think you’d fit in perfectly and nice to have more of us r-evolutionaries with a new view for the new age.
Best,
Seán