Comments on: Achieving Mastery http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2009/11/achieving-mastery/ Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:22:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anita Joy http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2009/11/achieving-mastery/comment-page-1/#comment-1842 Anita Joy Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:54:05 +0000 http://www.owlsdaughter.com/?p=1644#comment-1842 As a Renaissance Woman (interested in everything; everything is interesting), my challenge is getting out of the Fire stage of planning, ideas and inspiration and grounding those gee-whiz-you-bewt creatives ideas into Earthly manifestations. I practice my creativity every day in whatever form it wishes to take with the certainty that I cannot NOT become a Master/Artisan. I've been doing this pretty much for the last 42 years. Kicking the limiting mind-set of 'this is my hobby/interest' has been integral to recognising myself as a Creative - always have been, always will be. I no longer feel 'guilty' about not wanting to return to office work. My butt always did look big in that round hole anyways! To lampoon a popular TV advertisement from the 80s: "It won't heppen overnight, but it well heppen" As a Renaissance Woman (interested in everything; everything is interesting), my challenge is getting out of the Fire stage of planning, ideas and inspiration and grounding those gee-whiz-you-bewt creatives ideas into Earthly manifestations. I practice my creativity every day in whatever form it wishes to take with the certainty that I cannot NOT become a Master/Artisan. I’ve been doing this pretty much for the last 42 years. Kicking the limiting mind-set of ‘this is my hobby/interest’ has been integral to recognising myself as a Creative – always have been, always will be. I no longer feel ‘guilty’ about not wanting to return to office work. My butt always did look big in that round hole anyways! To lampoon a popular TV advertisement from the 80s: “It won’t heppen overnight, but it well heppen”

]]> By: Beth http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2009/11/achieving-mastery/comment-page-1/#comment-1841 Beth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:56:15 +0000 http://www.owlsdaughter.com/?p=1644#comment-1841 Yes! Yes! EXACTLY!!!! Thank you!!! Yes! Yes! EXACTLY!!!!
Thank you!!!

]]> By: M. Ashley http://www.owlsdaughter.com/2009/11/achieving-mastery/comment-page-1/#comment-1840 M. Ashley Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:00:14 +0000 http://www.owlsdaughter.com/?p=1644#comment-1840 Funny you should talk about synchronicity--I was just pondering last night the fear-based roots of my need to be a rockstar writer NOW! Thank you so much for posting this--I especially love the steps to mastery, key to which is giving yourself permission to suck. I think of when I was learning the violin. Unlike writing, I wasn't learning the violin for a career, merely personal betterment and enjoyment. In the first several weeks of learning it, I remember getting a huge kick out of how ragingly BAD I was. My favorite thing to say was, "I may not play it right, but I sure do play it LOUD!" This is the attitude I wish with all my soul to adopt about my writing. I want to be tickled when my writing sucks out LOUD, to not only allow myself to make mistakes, but to take as much joy and pleasure in them as I did my "cat in the blender" violining. -M. Ashley Funny you should talk about synchronicity–I was just pondering last night the fear-based roots of my need to be a rockstar writer NOW! Thank you so much for posting this–I especially love the steps to mastery, key to which is giving yourself permission to suck. I think of when I was learning the violin. Unlike writing, I wasn’t learning the violin for a career, merely personal betterment and enjoyment. In the first several weeks of learning it, I remember getting a huge kick out of how ragingly BAD I was. My favorite thing to say was, “I may not play it right, but I sure do play it LOUD!”

This is the attitude I wish with all my soul to adopt about my writing. I want to be tickled when my writing sucks out LOUD, to not only allow myself to make mistakes, but to take as much joy and pleasure in them as I did my “cat in the blender” violining.

-M. Ashley

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