Appointments For Adventure: Be Still
After eight days of Bookstore Adventures, I want to continue the 365 Days of Adventure journey with Twenty Appointments For Adventure. Earlier in the year, I wrote about Adventure by Appointment and the idea that if you make an appointment, you will feel accountable.
So, over the next twenty days, I’m going to set twenty appointments with myself for adventure. Adventures can be intellectual, emotional, spiritual, interpersonal, creative or even geographic. Adventures are amazing!
Today, my schedule involves helping my mother-in-law to pack up her house, a high tea in the city to celebrate a birthday and church. In the midst of this everyday schedule, I’m going to challenge myself to be still.
I have had so much work this week and my head is bursting.
I’m overwhelmed by the files on my desk that represent the many projects I’ve undertaken this year.
A mentoring session with my mentor revealed that I need to do a LOT more work before I can move on with the novel I’ve been dreaming of writing since I scribbled down the skeleton of an idea in Tuscany in 2010.
We are in the middle of planning trips to the USA and Europe in the next few months. Travel planning is fun, but how do you decide which adventure we will choose? Iceland for my husband and Tuscany for me, then Paris and…? How wonderful to have these choices, but it takes time.
In May, we’ve committed to doing a TEDx talk in San Francisco.
I have a novel to edit.
I have two novels I’m in the beginning stages of writing.
It’s all good!
So, today at some point, I am going to stop and be still. One way I find I enjoy doing this is to fill a bubble bath, light some candles and soak a while. We all need to find time to be still, to contemplate, to refuel so that we can continue on the adventurous journey of life.I need to be still so that I can sustain the work I’ve committed to. Julia Cameron puts it like this in The Artist’s Way: I need to Fill the well by caring for my artist.
Our heads are full of good stuff, and we’re looking forward to the travel and the things we’ll see and do, but for now, it’s time to take a breath and be still.
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor
#365adventure is a book lover’s year of adventures. Adventures in travel, friendship, family, soul, heart and, of course, book stores!
