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Following the most pure, honest guide I have ever discovered.

January 10, 2014 By Karen Main 6 Comments

There is a very generous helping of thoughts and ideas around goal setting and resolutions being served up on the internet at this time of year.  Large platters, heaped high,  offering delicious and tantalising suggestions to start your year with intention.

I love it.  I read and read.

I make notes, lists, jot down the suggestions.  I swing back and forth.  Will I have resolutions, goals, words, images, vision boards, notebooks, postie notes, calendars, online, diaries??????

Then comes the time for action I begin to plan, set goals, I read more, I pause the plan, restart the plan, alter the plan, more information.

Yes the internet provides endless stimulation for the active and creative mind.

Valuable, useable, enticing and quite possibly overwhelming volumes of information.  I cannot possibly use all this information and nor do I need to.

This year I am following the most pure, honest guide I have ever discovered.

A life navigational system that steers you towards the strongest life imaginable.

A system so in tune to your individuality no one else can use it.

A convenient guide that goes anywhere, is always with you and in fact it is you.

The road signs there, always there, easily missed when we are not paying attention.  Their messages powerful and yet subtle.  Directions not written down or even drawn on a map.

The big explosive signs.  The leaps for joy, the uncontrollable tears, the grown up tantrums, the outbursts of anger, the singing in the car, the dancing in the kitchen.

The subtle and easily missed nudges.   The twinge in the tummy, the flutter in the heart, the ache in the throat, the pain of the frown, the skip in your step, the smile as it spreads across your face.

All part of the guide that is generated deep, down within.

A guide that is communicating  through feelings and emotions.

The challenge to catch the messages before they are drowned by the noise of everyday life.  Smothered by the busy and the crazy.  Jammed up and lost amongst the frazzled and the frantic pace.

This guide requires stillness, quietness and deep, deep listening.

The desire map

It is a journey I began many, many years ago.  At a time when at my most vulnerable, with a brand new babe in arms, I learnt the value of emotional intelligence and the link to my intuitive self.

Presently I am guided by the delicious writings of the ever incredible Danielle La Porte.  I stumbled upon her over a year ago and have followed her ever since.  Her book The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul has recently been relaunched and once I began to read it the rest of the internet noise, causing me to spin, went quiet.

Within the quiet a gentle word was on repeat in my head, the word I had been doodling on paper, the word I absent mindedly looked up the meaning of, the word I then created my own meaning for, the word that stuck to me months ago begging to be noticed.

The word with a message, the word itching to guide me, the word I now want to explore with more depth.

The word, my word….Nimble.

I will continue to caress this word and its meaning for me as I embark on a new year.

A year in which I am not chasing my goals, I am chasing the feelings I hope attaining my goals will give.

A year in which more words and messages will appear and a year when I will be tuned in to listen, to see and to feel those messages.

How have you tackled your desire to start the new year with a plan, a map, a guide ?

“If you decide to purchase The Desire Map through my link, Amazon will pay me a commission for it. This doesn’t cost you anything additional.”

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Filed Under: Intuitive Feelings, Time to reflect Tagged With: creative, feelings, Growth

Comments

  1. Tamara says

    January 10, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    How interesting! I may really need to check this out. I’ve been borrowing bits and pieces of information from other bloggers, but not from books.
    And I love the word “nimble.” It’s one of the more unique ones I’ve heard.

    Reply
    • Karen Main says

      January 10, 2014 at 4:35 pm

      Tamara I am still playing around with “nimble” and what it means for me, more to come on that for sure.

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  2. Amy Putkonen says

    January 11, 2014 at 9:47 am

    I love this, Karen. I found your blog on the Inspired Blogging page by Michele Bergh. I love what you said here – especially the part about your body signaling your desires to you. I was just doing some editing today on my book and came across the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching. It talks about desire and how we can be consumed by it or we can choose to know our true meaning, which somehow lies outside of desire. I read your About page and feel quite lucky to have discovered your blog. I hope that you will stop by and say hello! 🙂

    Reply
    • Karen Main says

      January 12, 2014 at 9:28 am

      Oh Amy what wonderful words, thank you. Feelings are such incredible sign posts in our life and yet many of us do not listen to their messages. You are writing a book, how incredible. I am heading over to find out more.

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  3. Kelly L McKenzie says

    January 11, 2014 at 11:38 am

    Oohhhh nimble! I like that for you Karen. As for me I am getting closer. I refused to rush into it though. The word or resolution will reveal itself I wager.

    Reply
    • Karen Main says

      January 12, 2014 at 9:23 am

      Absolutely Kelly, no rush. The word will find you when it is ready. Meanwhile I continue to explore NIMBLE

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