The Greatest Work (2)
April 30, 2009
A place to land
In talking with some friends recently, I found myself saying that it’s important to land the work that we do, rather than think that it will do whatever it needs to, without any further help from us.
I say that for the following reasons -
- when you land something, by writing or talking about it, then you get to be an authority on it;
- the more that you get involved in the development and evolvement of your work then the more enthused and energised you become;
- your relationship with your work continually dances, so it’s important to find the essence of what you continue to express – get the essence and it becomes easy to land your work;
- when your work is far bigger than any personal vision then it will attract the right level of support (collective collaboration);
- your work will always be far more expansive than what you think it is;
- but the more focused you can be then the greater the potential for developing your own body of work.
Developing your own body of work requires that you consider what you are continually at work on – and that you literally embody the consciousness of that work.
Of course, we are talking about our Greatest Work here – that which impels us to collective action. That prompts questions such as
- What does the Greatest Work look like for each one of us?
- How can we combine our Greatest Work to ensure that we are all taking the right collective action?
Somehow it leads me back to reconsider my assertion above.
We do need to create a landing place ( in our ever-changing reality) that takes account of our collective action but … we must allow that our collective consciousness will ensure that we all work to the best of our abilities, to provide whatever is right for us all.
From start to finish
April 1, 2009
It took me three years, from the initial idea that I wanted to write a book until the celebration book launch itself. Actually, at the inception, writing a book wasn’t what I had in mind – I wanted to bring something into my life that I knew was missing.
At that time, back in March 2005, there was an inconsolable void in my life. You might call it a sense of loss or lack of purpose, but the depth of it was truly immeasurable. So what I did was to redefine what my life could be about, bringing magicalness and beauty into it, so that I could be powerfully energised every day.
My writing connected me to an unnameable source of inspiration. I was an adventurer, a scientist, a visionary, a time traveller, a magician, and much more … and the purpose was to bring all of that into other people’s lives.
The result is IMAGICA – a book that encourages us to explore and understand the source of our power.
It was an achievement to complete the book, for I felt it could take forever, but the book had a purpose. And when I decided that I wanted to complete the book then the writing flowed effortlessly until I physically finished it.
Yet this article extends beyond books and the process of writing. I am writing this to underline a need … a need for us to be observant … to recognise the potential that exists for being creative and truly passionate about the quality and nature of life.
This isn’t about the writing of books – it’s about what goes into the writing. It’s about about the starting of something that has the potential to be fantastic and inspirational … a future in the making.
And the finish is not about reaching a designated moment of completion. It’s about letting energy take its course as it flows through our fingertips and into the visionary landscape that we are creating together.