A pause can often be the most valuable thing you do in a whole week

A pause can often be the most valuable thing you do in a whole week

Often I’ll take two or three hours. (I’m totally aware that that’s a luxury perhaps not available to all right now.)

I’ll walk for the first half, these days that’s through Charlottenlund wood and along the water.

My objective is to create a much peace, calm and presence as I can.

I’ll then sit with a pen and paper, a really good pen and paper. I like the experience to be tactile and enjoyable.

I’ll sit on the balcony in the sun if that’s possible with hot pot of tea and nowhere else to be.

Then I’ll start to write the future from the perspective that anything is possible.

I roll out of bed, then I’ll describe in detail what I can smell, and see and hear like I’m writing a dream.

I’ll describe how I feel and then onto what I’m doing and who I’m being in each moment.

The whole process is emmersed in the feelings I want to feel.

I make my way through the day describing who I’m seeing, the work I’m doing with them, where we’re doing that work and I deep description of what that work is like.

Often I’ll jump between my home to somewhere way across Copenhagen to skiing somewhere in France with my family to partying with friends around a fire at dusk.

There is no time in this adventure. It is merely the documentation of a dream life.

It’s a way of preventing the battle of the brain that keeps wanting to THINK to make things logical and practical when they, for now, need to creative and blissful.

Then comes the practical part.

What’s stopping me from creating this experience of life right now?

Am I permanently stuck in the future and never present?

Is my low energy and frustration preventing me from being who I want to be with the people around me?

Am I playing to small in my business?

Am I procrastinating or allowing myself to get pull off course?

Am I honestly eating, sleeping, taking substances that will make creating this future totally impossible?

Am I saying yes to lesser experiences out of fear?

The create process I began with didn’t really build any new wants. I uncovered what I’m already trying to produce.

The second part of the process then simply pointed out what I’m doing to prevent myself from already having it.

With this clarity I can then ask myself what needs to happen next?

How long am I willing to continue living the way I am now that I have total clarity around the exact obstacles I am placing in my path?

This might all sound a bit daft I know but it’s worked for me over and over again.

I wrote today, 6 months ago!