Choose Your Life Monday is an invitation to name what pattern you will lovingly notice this week and to do so in community. Of course, you can do it any day you want- you don’t have to start on Monday. Join in when and whenever suits you.
Over at the Comfort Cafe and Life Spa, we named intentions for the month. Mine is lightness. Some of the other gal’s intentions: Gentleness in strength; Calm; Imperfection; Allowing more love of all kinds into my life; Structure…
It’s like a candy shop of possibility + focus + self-kindness = creating a life you love
Intentions aren’t magic but they are clarifying magnifying distilling focusing and energizing as all get out.
And the Coolest Rediscovery for me at the Cafe?
My own book: The Life Organizer!
Confession: I haven’t done the weekly pages consistently for months. I forgot how refreshing and centering it is to answer those questions!
And my gosh, how extra powerful good yummy it is do it in community.
I won’t share every week but I thought what the heck, why not extend the invitation to you to answer Week 6 questions here!
See if that floats your week toward a more peaceful, creative, in love with life place!
Life Organizer Questions for This Week
If I could do or be or feel anything this week, what would it be?
I’m sticking with my intention for lightness… I want to feel light, yet also supported… Supported by my daily practices (breathing, meditation, time outside, prayer) and supported by God. I want to let myself be supported into lightness.
Am I willing to take one doable step toward what I want? *How might self-trust help me take that step?
Focus the first part of my meditation on an image of support that came to me in therapy a few weeks back… I’m sitting on a big rock on a mountainside with a big peak behind me, an eagle flying over head, and trees below. All these elements / creatures are alive and taking care of me, grounding me, watching out for me. Letting that image live for me this week would be a great self-trust / self-care / supported lightness step.
Writing my intention questions around on post it notes would be good, too. “When is the last time I felt lightness?” and “What could lightness bring to me right now?”
What one basic need do I want to pay attention to this week?
Stretching and drinking water!
How and to where can I slip away for a mini-retreat very soon? (Even a half hour!)
Monday afternoon after I get the car serviced, I want to take time off after that for a mini-retreat… maybe outdoors if it is warm enough.
When I think of a current favorite shadow comfort or time monster (for me: email) I think I could actually be hungry for… connection and conversation in person. I will make more time for that this week… I have been and I like it!
Have a go, either here in the comments or if that seems like too much writing or sharing here, then try jotting a few responses in your journal.
And if that none of that suits you, how about declaring something you want to create for the week? I know, it’s different than what we’ve been doing but what the heck, I love mixing it up.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Irene Feb 9, 2009
Goodmorning Jennifer,
I had forgotten about the book myself (blushes shamefully). Thought i had completed the pages long ago and that was it. Then I read on Saturday a paragraph in a book, “A room of her own”, by Charlotte Moss. She stressed the importance of claiming a room (or corner or sanctuary) of your own before anyone else does.
Then and there i noticed this pattern in my life. I do not know how to call this. I suppose it is a fear of claiming and a self-vicrimising pattern.
Anyway, as I was furiously clearing out the room that is supposed to be my workshop but has instead turned into everyone’s dymping ground, I found your book on a shelf, the “absolutely must not pack away” stack that was hidden behind old photos and letters. I sat there and then and oh what a comfort. There was my comforting, stimulating, self-loving queen!
Now I read this, and the Comfort Cafe (no idea how this escaped my attention; perhaps you should post about it again for other overseers as well ), and I am so glad to find my welcoming anchor again!
Have a graceful week, dear Jennifer.
2 Juli Ford Feb 9, 2009
Hi Jen,
I just ordered the Life Organizer and I can’t wait for it to arrive!
If I could be anything this week I would be- energized!
Step I am taking to get there- Cleansing (time to give my body a chance to redefine what it needs and clear out old messages).
Basic need: I am with you on the stretching and water!
Mini Retreat- a trip to the bookstore!
Shadow Comfort/Time Monster- haning out on the computer. I think I am craving more creativity in my life and I have been avoiding my guitar. I need to make more space in my life for music this week.
Thanks, Jen. See you at the Cafe!
3 Jenn Givler Feb 9, 2009
This week, I choose to take back my life… take it back from this flu that has gripped it for the last week and a half… UGH! LOL!
What I’m noticing about myself and just being with this illness is that, I’ve really just needed to be gentle with myself. And to realize that I create my days, and if I need to create some time to rest – it’s mine to create.
Nothing in my life moves forward without me. So if I need to take time to re-charge, everything will be there when I’m ready
Jenn Givler’s last blog post..Having trouble staying focused?
4 Goddess Leonie I Creative Goddess Feb 9, 2009
oh my darling…
what gorgeous questions!
they feel filled with space and lightness…
and comfort, strangely enough
If I could do or be or feel anything this week, what would it be?
I would like to feel gently successful, riding a strong sailing boat across calm seas. I would like to feel like I have the space to breath.
Am I willing to take one doable step toward what I want? *How might self-trust help me take that step?
Yes. I will sit with my To-Do list, and note what is true and right for me right now, and only do those.
What one basic need do I want to pay attention to this week?
Nurturing and creating and making time for loving space between me and my love.
How and to where can I slip away for a mini-retreat very soon? (Even a half hour!)
I will take my picnic blanket to the parket during a lunch hour.
When I think of a current favorite shadow comfort or time monster (for me: food) I think I could actually be hungry for…
Comfort. Stillness. Fullness. Self-care.