. Anne Lamott .

"Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen. Repent just means to change direction — and NOT to be said by someone who is waggling their forefinger at you. Repentance is a blessing. Pick a new direction, one you wouldn’t mind ending up at, and aim for that. Shoot the moon.

Echoing Neil Gaiman, who counseled young artists to “make glorious, amazing mistakes,” Lamott concludes with a recipe for an antidote — the only real antidote — to perfectionism:

Here’s how to break through the perfectionism: make a LOT of mistakes. Fall on your butt more often. Waste more paper, printing out your shitty first drafts, and maybe send a check to the Sierra Club. Celebrate messes — these are where the goods are. Put something on the calendar that you know you’ll be terrible at, like dance lessons, or a meditation retreat, or boot camp. Find a writing partner, who will help you with your work, by reading it for you, and telling you the truth about it, with respect, to help you make it better and better; for whom you will do the same thing. Find someone who wants to steal his or her life back, too. Now; today. One wild and crazy thing: wears shorts out in public if it is hot, even if your legs are milky white or heavy. Go to a poetry slam. Go to open mike,and read the story you wrote about the hilariously god-awful family reunion, with a trusted friend, even though it could be better, and would hurt Uncle Ed’s feelings if he read it, which he isn’t going to.
Change his name and hair color — he won’t even recognize himself.
At work, you begin to fulfill your artistic destiny. Wow! A reviewer may hate your style, or newspapers may neglect you, or 500 people may tell you that you are bitter, delusional and boring.
Let me ask you this: in the big juicy Zorba scheme of things, who fucking cares?"

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/16/anne-lamott-people-pleasing-haters-trolls/

When you bask and appreciate and love life AROUND the things that aren't perfect for you in every moment,
so that you let what IS working be the basis of the reason you offer your
vibration,then what happens is that you are frequently in the vortex where the accommodation of all who are involved.
We're not kidding you about this.
You can have everything you want without depriving anyone else of anything, because you live in a balanced enough Universe that everything that you want is easily accomodateable by those who surround your object of attention.
But unless you get in the vortex where who you really are and what you
really want is, you will not see the path. You will not be there at the
right time. You will not be a vibrational match to the unfolding that
allows the unfolding to give you what you want.
When you let this Vibrational Reality play a bigger role in the vibration
that is you, what happens is, you match up, not just with the Source YOU who you have helped become, but you match up with all the circumstances and events that have already been assembled.
We want to say to you that in this vortex of creation that have already been assembled, all the cooperative components have already been assembled. The cooperative components for the absolute fulfillment of everything you've asked for, as far as you have been able to ask.
The question we want to help you ask and answer is: Are you a compatible component to your own desires?
And if you are ornery, the answer is NO!
If you are worried, the answer is NO!
If you are overwhelmed, the answer is NO!
You've got to be in the vicinity of hope and up - hope, belief, love,
knowing, joy. You've got to be in the vicinity of that to really be in the
vortex where what looks like magic to those outside the vortex is happening.
It's not magic, it's natural!
It's not magic, it's LIFE!
It's what LAW says it must be.
1/9/10 San Diego
ABRAHAM-HICKS

"and i thought i'd add....it is ok to be where you currently are. that it's ok to not be in those super positive emotions and its ok always always ok to be wherever u are as long as u know that u're always rising."

" i just wanted to say
those films/movies/plays/events that need to be directed and created are desiring you. i don't know why but something tells me to tell u not to chase after desires u feel are out of your reach cos the ones that are suited to you are chasing after you. that you need to just BE.
i think our ibs are sending us a msg now. hoho"

. The Search For Passion .

What is the work you can't not do?

How To Find And Do Work You Love: Scott Dinsmore at TEDxGoldenGatePark