New Year's Motivation

Ha, ha! Time to get heads on track for the next rung of the treadmill.

Here's some motivational help:

A lovely piece on letting go, entitled Gain Confidence Thru Your Creative Self, with instructions for brainstorming for ideas.

Aim High - Dig Deep gives good advice on mastering tasks; here computers and painting, but the advice applies to any subject.

And some useful thoughts:

When setting paths and goals:

"The subconscious must be seduced into responding the way you want it to perform. To be effective, therefore, the ideas you plant in it must appeal to the imagination rather than the intellect."

Resolving personal issues:

"Your subconscious specialises in finding solutions to your most personal problems. Place your faith in it, and give your conscious mind a rest."

I like this:

"For a long time it had seemed to me
that life was about to begin - real life.
But there was always some obstacle in the way,
something to be got through first,
some unfinished business; time still to be served,
a debt to be paid. Then life would begin.
At last it dawned on me that
these obstacles were my life."
Bette Howland, Life in the Snakepit.

Image © 2006 R deCinabre