This has been an interesting week. As I sit with, explore, write more about, call in and have conversations with my good enemies, they seem to all want to be more participatory in my life. Yikes!
Bringing real life experiences into the stories of their gifts is what I am working on in my next book. This week I danced with Procrastination, Not Good Enough, Resistance, and Self-Doubt that comes with a momentary lapse in motivation and drive.
It’s that time when I stop believing in myself and start listening to the voices of others and allowing what’s going on in my world to stifle my own inspiration and creativity.
As I explore these good enemies this week; putting them on paper, brainstorming, and mind mapping this book that is trying so hard to get out in the world, my own good enemies put up fences and walls and blockades and distractions, all to slow down my progress and test my commitment to the book.
I’m giving them notice here, that I’m going to write about them anyway.
Exploring my good enemies is not a hobby anymore. It’s becoming a thread that I pull to take me into myself and that inner exploratory journey we all need to take at varying points in our lives.
What is my lesson this week with Not Good Enough? My interview was with a 2x NY Times Bestselling Author who does amazing work out in the world and my good enemy decided to challenge me to feel worthy of such a guest. Then Self-Doubt joined the conversation and tried to persuade me that I would never get this interview right and I would embarrass myself and my publicist. Enter Procrastination and Resistance to support those other good enemies and it was quite the pity party.
What I learned was that I was good enough, it was a great interview. I didn’t need to doubt myself after doing this show for over three years, not blowing a single interview. I am master of my own time and when Procrastination shows up, I am reminded that I just need to dismiss him from the room and get on with what I need to be doing.
Resistance is a bit of a lagger. He doesn’t show up so much to rain on my parades, but to keep me settled in my comfy chair, show me all the reasons I don’t need to do something I want or need to do, and just in general create havoc in my world and send me back under the covers.
This week, as much as I wanted to resist going to PT, and that tax office, and the gas station and the grocery store, I reminded Resistance that these are things that require my attention and he wasn’t needed. I would be fine.
I interviewed Christy Whitman about her new book, In The Flow, and as I write this, I realize that each of my good enemies was determined to take me out of the Flow.
One of the best things (there were so many) that I took away was the use of words. Even something as simple as, “I can’t wait for something,” is positive and full of hope. “I’m looking forward to,” has so much more power and positivity behind it. No more telling the Universe I can’t… anything.
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That’s it for this week, back to all those good enemies waiting to be interviewed for the book.
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
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