What does it mean to get clear?
· To get clear means you know who you are and why you do what you do.
· To get clear means you hold your center and your vision even if things in the external world aren't yet where you want them to be.
· To get clear means you unflinchingly say "no" to things that don't align with who you are.
· To get clear means you know you are choosing your life at every moment.
· To get clear means you're not afraid to apologize if you mess up, but you never apologize for who you are.
Why is it so important to get clear?
"But Christine, aren't you being a little uptight here? Do I have to spend every moment asking myself why I'm doing something? This seems like it takes so much energy!"
It only seems like it takes energy to live like this if you're spending too much of your precious energy on non-items, and distractions, and things you don't really want. This is the default position of 90% of the population. (It's also why advertising works!)
When energy is consistently flowing out of you to things that don't really matter, or to things that distract you - then you have to play tricks in order to "get by" or "get away with" things. You have to "get more" things to keep your energy up.
All of this takes the very life-force you need in order to create your dreams. And life becomes more about the management of your dishonor, your distractedness, and your dis-ease -- rather than being about the creation of your clear path.
In other words: When you are distracted, you try to "get" things. When you are clear, you allow things.
This is why Caroline Myss says, "One clear (powerful) prayer beats a confused Cathedral any day."
So it's time to "GET CLEAR"...and that frightens me. I'm good at waffling when it comes to goals or dreams. If I don't get clear than I can't fail...but I also can't succeed. I'm not sure how I want to approach this. There are many areas of my life that I'm trying to balance (I'm sure it's like that for everyone, right?) so I'm going to list them and see what feels right next.
Music- playing piano, learning guitar (2009), writing music, performing music
EcoTeeBags.com- bag production, marketing and sales
My environment- I want to get closer to clutter-free, be free to live creatively without clutter hindering me
My parenting- I want to bring joy and live joy with my boys. Live in the moment and give them my focused time
okay...so what now? My intent for this home study is to continue what I started at my retreat. I remember that when I was asked my intent for the retreat, I said that I needed space to think and create myself without the burden of all the roles I embody in "real life". So by extension, now that I'm back in those roles I need to maintain some space for myself to think and create. I need to create a "role" for myself that embodies what I want to be...my clear self :) I want to bring joy to all areas of my life and cut back on the activities that I do out of habit or guilt that don't align with that joy.
hmmmmmm....is that clear? :)
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