Comments on: The Immersion Attitude: What's it all About?

By: greg

greg — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:37:03 +0000

I have started some baby-steps in the last couple of months. They involve health, creativity, work and relationships. A very wise friend of mine once told me that I don’t have to live my life “all at once”. As much as I want to, I can’t anyway. Yes, in reflection on what he said and what the all or nothing attitude obtains, I have to agree that persistence, no matter how slow, does eventually get the job done !

By: Bamboo Forest

Bamboo Forest — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:19:38 +0000

@ Sara: Excellent point about about procrastination.

@ Marelisa: That is a very interesting idea, “micromovements.” Thanks!

@ Greg: Interesting ideas.

By: greg

greg — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:58:16 +0000

As I come off night shift, read this article, i think first of my sweatheart and the pleasure he gives me, then my thoughts drift to my work and I wonder how to stay immersed in both to a more satisfactory level….and I come back to the thought of “being true to one’s self ” in the process, whatever the process, the endeavor, the goal is. This becomes difficult at times when there are so many such aparitions surrounding one. Staying immerse to me is watching my thoughts, getting them out in the open if need be – whether it feels completely safe or not and then see if some clarification is gained. Sometimes just really talking honestly with one’s self is the best , to really be open to what thee has to say and be frank and compassionate in thou response. Then the Thee and Thou in one’s self can have an authentic conversation and be one.

By: Abundance Blog at Marelisa-Online » Blog Archive » Share the Love Friday on Marelisa-Online Abundance Blog: Week of June 9th, 2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:09:32 +0000

[...] Why not exchange your addiction to perfectionism with good old fashioned persistence? Sara, owner of the blog “On Simplicity”, will teach you how in her post “Persistence, A Reasonable Stand-In for Perfectionism”. In a related post which Sara suggests to her readers, over at the “Pun Intended” blog there’s a post which recommends that you drop the all-or-nothing approach and instead adopt an immersion approach. The post is called “The Immersion Attitude”. [...]

By: Marelisa

Marelisa — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:49:51 +0000

Have you heard of the author Sark? She writes books like “A Creative Companion – How to Free Your Creative Spirit”. She does something micromovements, which are basically tiny, tiny steps. For example, if you need to organize your closet, micromovement number one is opening the closet doors. I love this idea. Oh, and I like your post

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:57:21 +0000

Yep. Totally! And I like that you tied this to procrastination–it’s definitely true. It’s often better to take some baby steps, or even some missteps, than no steps. (Not always, but often.) In the case of blogging, it’s usually easier to edit an “eh” piece than to stare at a blank page.

By: Bamboo Forest

Bamboo Forest — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:35:03 +0000

Wesli: Wonderful examples Wesli. Thanks for sharing.

By: Wesli

Wesli — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:05:21 +0000

This reminds me of my 3-part note I keep close by. It is on goals, and the gradual transience towards them:

1. Baby Steps. Think of mailmen. Postal workers have to feed 100′s or 1000′s of mailboxes per day. They can only do it *1 at a time,* but at the end of every day, they get to look back on their accomplishment.

2. Keeping Going (also, Moving Forward). Think of Jean-luc Picard in that episode where he lives a life inside a machine-created re-creation. He has a flute. He is horrible at it, but he keeps it up, and it pays off. If one doesn’t keep going with something, then they stay at the same point, or even degrade, until they pick back up again.

3. Perseverance. Much like “Keeping Going,” but perseverance is especial to times of difficulty. Perseverance is what’s needed along the way to a goal whenever things get tough. To explicate, one without perseverance will give up without trying after understanding the difficulty. On the other hand, one with perseverance pushes and pushes until either they achieve their goal, or are stopped along the way by something *out of their power*

4?. Immersion. This can mean that you let your goal pervade every part of your life. If running is your goal, you don’t just run, but you buy running magazines, you hang out with runners, you talk on running forums.

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