And so I came crashing down!

As I came crashing down off my kids’ new motorbike a few things came running through my head. Firstly, this is going to hurt, and it did. Not in a major get me too hospital sort of way, no, more of a, this graze is going to hurt like hell and leave me swearing through my clenched teeth as I wash it off scenario. Realistically though my pride took a bigger hit than my body.

I love, care and cherish having my children in my life, they mean the world to me, but in that moment when gravity was drawing me to its fateful conclusion I thought,  “ I’ve got to stop bleeding for my kids”.

It’s a metaphor. I’m learning. Somewhere in the “we” there has to be a “me”, it’s just a thought, one worth having before we next draw blood. It's a little less painful that way.

Directions

No job is the wrong job, unless it’s the wrong job for you.  No path is the wrong path, unless it’s the wrong path for you.  No life is the wrong life, unless it is the wrong life for you.

Fortunately life doesn’t give up, and continues to drag us in the way that we know we must eventually go.

Find your dreaming, or you may just die!

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

I know, it’s a little dramatic, but it needs to be. It’s happening around me and in me, it’s collective. Sure, it probably won’t happen tomorrow, but when we keep going against ourselves it catches us.

And death becomes our guiding light trying to awaken us. I know it can sound strange but its finality raises the stakes of this game.

The morning rises with things to do, but I stop to sit with the status quo, and a spark of life is extinguished.

You know when the way you’re doing it is killing you; when it goes against your path, you feel it.

I’m not saying it easy, it’s anything but, I have responsibilities too. But in the end it’s a balancing act, as we are called to follow our needs, our nature, our dreams.

It’s patterned into our problems and joys; the things we love and hate, guiding, pushing, pulling, but mostly directing.

In the end it’s up to us; the choice is ours.

Sure it can be hard when you’re set in a pattern of yesterday, the way it was, but this is serious, there’s an end to this play.

And change is happening like it or not as our lives and dreams call us in.

Calling us to awaken to our dream.

How to make the world a better place, One garden at a time. Ps. We are giving stuff away.

So over Christmas I got thinking about how to make 2012 more interesting than ever. And then while on holiday we got a little too much sun. Not over the top lobster red, but a little more of the summer rays than we would have liked. So we went to the garden and grabbed ourselves a piece of Aloe Vera.  If you have never used Aloe Vera on sun burn then you must, it’s extraordinary.  And that’s when I got an idea…

I realised that the world will be a better place when every home has an Aloe Vera plant.  Even if all you have is a small veranda, you can stick it in a pot and it will work.  If you live in hotter regions like we do in Queensland it’s essential, you have no choice.  Suddenly you have your own pharmacy at hand, it’s not mixed with alcohol or other preservatives, and it just keeps growing. Seriously, if you live on the Gold Coast it will grow like crazy.

So if I want to make the world a better place what do I have to do?  Then I got it.  I went out to the gardening shop, got some little holders to put some dirt into and grabbed some baby Aloe Vera plants from our garden and stuck in a hundred of them. That’s how you have a good time on holidays!

Now what?  I’m about to give them away to anyone who wants them.  Not quite yet, but very soon.  So as soon as they are ready I’ll give you a yell and come in and grab one and change your life.  You don’t have to come into Studio Qi for a treatment, just pop in and say hi and there will be one waiting for you.

And then we’ll make the world a better place.  See you soon.  Brad.

Implementing a new life skill

This morning I created five blog posts in my head, and that was just before breakfast. Ideas seem to come so fast at times that I can miss them as new thoughts fire up and leave me missing the previous three. I think that we’re all like that once we get going.

So here’s a new life skill that I’m starting to implement:

Before I go to Facebook, Twitter or any other number of time consuming websites, I have to do, make, construct or produce something creative. It’s not that those sites don’t give me inspiration, knowledge and thrill, they do, they enrich and stimulate how I feel, but if that’s all I’m doing I’ve missed the creative angle and a vital piece of the puzzle.

You see, I now think we have to create, I think it’s who we are and how we change the world, our world.

It’s a flip!

It used to be research first create later, but that’s just too risky a move. I’ve ended up researching till the cows come home and we have no cows.

Now it’s create now research later.

That way the work gets done.