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Jul 12
in Photography Teachings, Uncategorized

Really looking at your list – Completing, crossing off and creating!

STEP 4

Ok…you have;

Step 1 – Created your list. Then Step 2 – worked out your Creative or Personal Mission. Then Step 3 – determined your Goals. Now is the fun bit!!

Have a look at your list and for every item, work out whether if completing that thing on your list actually serves any of your goals. If the thing on your list doesn’t serve any of your goals… reassess whether you need to adjust your goals in case you missed something…. or cross the thing off your list! Ask yourself why you are doing it or want to do it – if it doesn’t serve you!

Now you have sorted through your list and determined that everything on it will actually help you achieve your goals… organise them either with a coloured marker or in your doc. programme into things which need to be done in the short or long term… short being days/weeks… and long usually months/years.

Then prioritise them. Put them  in order from the ones you can actually start in the next few hours!!!! Each morning take a few minutes to look at your short term list and work out which ones are a priority, and start them and schedule when you are going to do them. Have a mixture of things which can be completed quickly and ones which you can set in motion but take a little longer to complete.

Prioritise your long term items as well….Start the bigger and longer term projects wholeheartedly – but see if you can break down those things on your list into smaller more achievable elements – so you don’t keep putting it off because it seems daunting. For example – if you have on your list ….. “get my book going”… break that down to  – select images for book; select poems for book; research Blurb; research publishers; research paper types; research font types…etc. Each of those items is able to be achieved in smaller batches of time and progress can be clearly seen to be made, rather than being daunted by not knowing where to start and having an overwhelming task ahead of you.

Don’t also forget the possibility that you can delegate.  You don’t always have to physically do everything on your list yourself. You are the manager of the list – nowhere is there a code which says that you have to do everything yourself!

Be disciplined and focussed, but also be flexible. If you need a bit of a boost so that you feel like you need to achieve something … go to your list and pick 3 or 4 things which can be done fairly effortlessly and in a short time frame. Get the niggly little things out of the way. And the CROSS THEM OFF!!!


So…. now you have some strategies to complete things on your list. Everything you do needs to serve you….. serving meeting your goals and ultimately your Mission; either Creatively if that is your focus for this exercise…or if you have taken a broader view.. then your Life’s Mission.

As you cross the things of your list…..as you complete things… you now have space to open up to the new!!!  Keep revising your Goals, because as you achieve the things on your list – you will all of a sudden realise that you will be achieving some of your Goals also. This opens the way for you to create and develop new Goals… and wonderful experiences that you never thought you had the space for in your life before.

Give it try. Give these 4 steps a go…. it WILL make a big difference in your life!

 

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I am a Journeywoman. I live my life as an explorer. An adventurer. An Observer. An Artist. There is no differentiation between how I live my life and the art that is an expression of it. It is through my experience adventuring the unknown, that I learn more about myself. My aim through this connection is to live where my expression is fully in alignment with the essence of who I am. “In the field of Fine-Art Photography, Julie stands apart from others with the way she sees the world and expresses her connection within it. Julie Stephenson’s photographs are sublime. Her work is an expression of her deep connection; and a gift to the world.”

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skeinydipping

I looked down and saw my hands. Hands which have t I looked down and saw my hands. Hands which have touched; have loved; have created; have worked; have nurtured. My hands.   

I looked down and saw on my wrist and fingers items from around the world which have so many stories; items which have all been created from the heart and made by the hands of others. 

I looked down and saw beautiful yarn. Yarn which has been handled carefully through shearing, dyeing, skeining, balling; and now being knit in my beautiful hands. 

My hands are one of my gifts. This year I’ve really missed the touch of another with my hands, to feel the heart of another through my fingertips; but so grateful and love my hands which touch and feel; work and play!

What do you see when you look at your hands?

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Knitting a fabulous  #slipstravaganzamkal by @westknits .
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My life is wonderful… and I have so many stories My life is wonderful… and I have so many stories. I’ve had adventures on all continents. Slept being rocked by the sea; felt the ice on my skin in both polar regions, and felt the silence of the deserts. I’ve walked stone steps in monasteries at altitudes where each step I’ve taken consciously and mindfully; focussing on treasuring every molecule of oxygen in the rarefied atmosphere. 

COVID has paused those adventures, but I draw upon my experiences as I navigate adventuring my days in a different way, on our ‘home range’. 

I recall my steps in Tibet as I walk through our bushland. I am mindful and conscious of my surroundings. I listen. I feel. I feel happy here. I am content.

My new stories may not hold the same experiences of connection with others; and may not be of extreme challenges or crazy things  (which I am rather prone to doing! 🙂 ) but they are not less wondrous… as I smell the warm eucalyptus waft from under my feet. 

I weave my stories, and this story is of my personal journey on my daily walk through our bushland. 
You can see some of my other woven stories on my website - link in profile. 

How do you express your life’s stories?
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“....The Assookinakii cowl was created for those “....The Assookinakii cowl was created for those times in your life when you need a meditative and healing knit. Assookinakii (ass-s-oo-kin-uh-k-EE) means ‘healer’ in the Blackfeet language, thank you to Cut Woods School in Browning, MT for the tradish language support”. –  Candice from @thefarmersdaughterfibers 

Knitting this beautiful cowl by Candice from @thefarmersdaughterfibers for @sistersunitedmt ; WAS healing. 

As my hands gently formed the repetitive stitches I reflected on the word ‘Assookinakii ‘ - healer. I am a healer. I don’t understand it. It’s something unseen. Something within me which has been recognised by Ngangkari and ‘clever men’ here in Australia; and shaman and healers around the world as we travel. This recognition always has caught me by surprise; as I seem to walk a line between two worlds. 

As the stitches slipped from one needle to another and the beautiful colours of @spincycle_yarns revealed themselves; in the pauses between the stitches I heard a voice whispering to continue to seek connection with the natural world and listen deeply. 

What has been healing for you this year?
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