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Philly Gammell » Procrastination http://www.phillygammell.com Acupuncture & Wellbeing Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:22:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Practice and commitment… http://www.phillygammell.com/uncategorized/practice-and-commitment/ http://www.phillygammell.com/uncategorized/practice-and-commitment/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:37:49 +0000 http://www.phillygammell.com/?p=651 Read More

]]> Practice.  Practice makes perfect, yet its important to remember that practice isn’t always perfect, it is often very messy, hard and a struggle.  Practice can be boring, something you don’t really want to do everyday and something that we have to force ourselves into… however, it is the only way to mastering anything. I have found combining motherhood and constant practice extremely difficult and I can’t even begin to express my admiration for those who turn up everyday to their mat, their meditation cushion, gym, what ever their personal routine is, I admire the commitment. Practice was something I wasn’t terrible at before my little boy made an appearance, I wasn’t the best, but in the main I had a routine and rhythm to my life that meant I did commit to a practice with a degree of regularity.  However, trying to do that now with a little man in my life has been a huge struggle; I can go for a few days and then all I need is a few nights interrupted sleep and I fall off track!  It is such a challenge yet I so want to have that commitment and rhythm back in my life… I really endeavour to meet this challenge and to reconnect with my practice and myself in order to become a better mother and practitioner.  I feel such a fraud trying to tell my patients to keep up changes in their life when I can’t do the same in mine!  So, meeting myself where I am today, I want to commit to a practice that will help me; help me build energy, enhance my clarity and commit to a path of deliberate practice. Here goes! XOX

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]]> “Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. “I write only when inspiration strikes,” he replied. “Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o’clock sharp.””

Genius! Somerset Maugham was clearly well versed in the power of resistance as well as the no. 1 tool to overcoming it; hard work, discipline and beginning, regardless of how you feel that particular morning.

I believe that resistance is fueled by fear; fear of beginning, fear of creating, fear of being criticized, fear of putting yourself and your art out there in the world…the list goes on. It has taken me so so long to learn that this fear never disappears; however much ‘work’ I do on myself, it will be sitting at the end of my bed every morning waiting to do battle.  With time however, I do believe you become more accustomed to its presence and I now accept that I will feel it before doing pretty much anything that involves putting myself out there.

This subject is really close to my heart as I have lived in fear for most of my life; fear of looking like an idiot mainly and fear of getting it wrong.   Admitting this is hard, especially as someone who used to chuck herself of mountains in a previous incarnation as a professional skier! My fears at the time were completely different and in many ways far easier to handle.

 

I was fearful of avalanches, of hurting myself (again), of dying, yet none of these fears were enough to stop me putting my skis on and getting out there day after day.

How is it then that the fear involved in writing and creating is so overwhelming it stops me from sitting in front of my computer and lures me into a myriad of procrastination?  I have become a complete sucker to resistance!  How is writing a few articles and putting myself out there more scary than facing a designated ‘death zone’ and ‘no fall zone’ in freeride competitions?!

I have recently finished “The War of Art” by Stephen Pressfield and was inspired to kick the resistance at exactly 8.30am every morning by just starting and seeing where that takes me.  So here goes!

 

 

 

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