Thoughts on engagement and excitement
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I'm contacting my engagement and excitement.
The feelings are there - from experience - as resources for me to draw upon.
So, I'm focusing on feeling them.
Grounding, movement, clarity, focus, strength, drive,
knowledge and joy might be the opposites of what I am feeling.
Therefore I focus on them.
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I'm contacting my engagement and excitement.
The feelings are there - from experience - as resources for me to draw upon.
So, I'm focusing on feeling them.
Grounding, movement, clarity, focus, strength, drive,
knowledge and joy might be the opposites of what I am feeling.
Therefore I focus on them.
Joy.
I enjoy most parts of my work. I like it, when I know what to do
and am actually doing it.
I feel intense joy when I get a new insight, get to an agreement with
others in a team, or finish a part of a project.
I really enjoy movement. When a piece of work is moving along.
When I'm getting somewhere.
Not just flow, chunky movement is okay, too.
Slow movement is also movement.
Movement is a source of joy for me.
I'm taking action on "securing" movement.
I can't control the actual pace, but I can put in the time and the attention.
I can plan. Create routines.
Grounding and strength is remembering who I am and why I do what I do.
Remembering my visions, goals, tools, values.
Checking in.
Basically that's what I do when I write.
Clarity.
Clarity is a stage I move into and slide out of,
not a constant state of mind.
By consciously and actively striving for clarity, I get it.
Sooner or later I get it. And then I lose it again.
It's rhythmic.
Engagement.
I'm easy to engage in a cause or a project, a job.
I easily connect the further development of my resources
with other peoples' ideas.
Professionally, voluntarily and personally.
I make their case mine.
It's habitually harder for me to pursue my own ideas.
Clarity helps me figure out how to move on.
Consciously formed habits, too.
Leading a life of steady creativity.
Instead of jumping from project to project,
race to race to their individual finishing lines,
it's a flow of interconnected activities,
naturally producing output when matured.
That is the state of mind I seek.
That is the life I strive to design for myself.
Relevance is motivation. Excitement. Energy. Drive.
And essential to interaction with others.
However I cannot connect with whatever and anybody.
All the projects I work for, I associate with myself.
I make them mine.
Meeting others challenges me to define myself and my purpose.
To sharpen what I do and why.
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