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+ Add Just A Little Bit More To What You Love To Do and Something Spectacular Happens
Awaken Your Ikigai To Life’s Possibilities
Just stretch yourself a tiny bit further. What you discover is worth the effort — far more than you realize. Take a risk, make a new friend. Stay with the writing for another paragraph or another 10 minutes. Do one more set at the gym, walk one more block, believe in yourself a little bit longer, repeat an affirmation five more times.
Add a little something more to what you are doing that evokes good feelings. Every day.
For me as a writer, I stay at the computer in my favorite spot to write at my favorite table with a tall floor lamp softly difusing just the right amount of light, fresh flowers of white and pink. I keep writing only to end up throwing out tons of excess in the editing process. Gradually, the thoughts that remain begin to lay down on the page. I have to stay awhile or there is no feeling of progression.
It is in this ‘progression’ where the miracles unfold.
It’s like when I was six and my dad lifted me onto the stool in his photography dark room in our basement. Only a single red bulb dangled on a long string above the table holding a tray of water.
