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"Selfish Me" part deux

Last night I started. During the holidays I bought myself a Yamaha acoustic classical guitar. It wasn't expensive. Just the basics. And that's all I need at the moment. I had my first lesson. Printed off the net. You know. A beginners lesson. The basics. This is the nut. This the first fret. Here's the body. There's the hole. But when do you get to play?? Okay. Here is is. Practice your scales. Next there's the C, G and D Majors ... cool! :-) I even printed out Brown Eye's Girl. So I got off the ground. About 30min of strumming around until my finger's hurt. But today I had a thought. My non-calloused finger tips are serving as a constant reminder to the agreement I made myself last year. Learn to play. I'm conscious of them all the time ... like when a newly-wed groom notices his wedding band for weeks, even months after The Big Day. It reminds you of your commitment. I hadn't thought of that. And all along it was at my finger tips.

Four Agreements to take us into 2007

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Let's start this year with a contract to ourselves. A contract that contains 4 principles ... or agreements ... we need to make with our family, our friends, our work colleagues ... with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth. These Four Agreements are an extract from the powerful book by Don Miguel Ruiz - a book that is almost always found by my bedside ... 1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality,