Getting Here Holding the "F" Word's Hand

First step, look the "F" word (Fear) straight in the eye, grab the wheel and motor on - hopefully while your friend with the mad skills holds your hand. Or rides with you into the abyss.

That's what just before learning a new computer skill feels like to me. Abyssmal. I've said the left side of my brain was swallowed up by my overactive right side. But THAT certainly keeps me safe from taking responsibility for learning something new, eh? I can just hear my gremlin yackin' at me "You were never good at technology" or "You can't remember what you did cause you don't do it enough" or, well, you get the picture.

Step 2, for ha-ha's start reading a Feng Shui book ("Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life" by Karen Rauch Carter), make some simple changes around the house: move objects, add chimes, drape red lacy lingerie in the office (that's the Relationship corner of the house), a purple scarf

in the kitchen (Prosperity) and start watching things change.

Best of all, open wide the shut door to the Helpful People room and WA-LA! Enter my friend with the mad skills - in using computers, writing blogs, among many other things.

Step 3, crack up. My irreverent side is laughing its ass off. Add purple scarf, get commission?!?!

The Life Coach in me sees Feng Shui not so much as balancing Chi. (While the reverent side wonders.) I see fantastic metaphors that keep my intentions right out front, in my face. As a Visual Artist, the visuals are MUY helpful. So, does that mean

clarify what you want, put up reminders = attract it?

Do I look like an advertisement for "The Secret"? Nah. I'm a Life Coach and I know this is the FIRST step. Then it's action, steps to take, plans.

Remember the "F" word? It always hitches a ride when I try something new. So who do you have to be to "Feel the Fear & Do It Anyway"? (Susan Jeffers) Bold, pretending to be fearless until you've driven past it. Not into the abyss but into the land of My-Synapses-Are-Connecting! Yee-HA! I GET IT! I DID IT!

Step 4? And here is what IT is, this time: my first blog here.

There's something irreverent about controlling Fear. That appeals to my Artist/Outlaw sensibilities. I hope I remember that next time I try something new.

Today my Life Coach, Ed Mickool, pointed out that the more irreverent you are, the more you know yourself. Hmmmmm.

He also asked me to Feng Shui my Fear. I'll write on that another time - I need to motor on down the hill to grab that mad skills friend of mine and give her a big hug!

Puttin' it in park. I'm here to stay.