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“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.” ~ Morgan Freeman
“The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me. I’m not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.” ~ Chris Evans
Scott Austin Tirrell, one of my followers is faithful about reading my blog and listening to my Story-Power episodes and then liking them. Well, at least, I think he reads and listens. But the thing is I don’t always read his blog posts in return. Today I did and I’m so glad because his thinking on paper about how to get people to notice his work is a familiar theme for me.
I will be replying to his post later. But what he wrote got me thinking about my own evolving process. I write this blog, my novel, produce my podcast and online course to please myself. Part of me hopes to get followers, but another part of me doesn’t care. I don’t follow the stats for Story-Power, or even this blog. I don’t track sales of my book, and I certainly don’t have lots of students for my course. My little voice just keeps telling me to plug along doing what I love and eventually the people who need to connect with the work will and that’s all that matters.
This approach was confirmed by my latest podcast guest, Dave Combs, (see Wednesday June 7 post here on this website). He’s a well known musician with several albums under his belt, but it all started with a little song he sat down and just played for himself. Every night when he came home from work, he’d sit down at the piano and play something to relax. Out of that came a tune that he liked, so he played it often for himself. One day his wife asked him what the name of the tune was he played that got stuck in her head. When she hummed it for him, he told her it didn’t have a name. It was just something he made up. Being a wise woman she told him to write it down, which he did. Nothing happened with the song right away, but eventually Dave had the song arranged and made a recording of it, and had his friend, who happened to be a DJ on the local radio station listen to it. His friend played it on the station and the phones lit up, (this was before the internet). That was the beginning of his musical career. It didn’t happen over night but he just kept sitting down at the piano and doodling around until he got tunes he liked and that’s how he wrote songs for several albums. Now, Dave tells the story much better than I just wrote it here so I hope you will go listen to our conversation on Apple or Spotify.
Dave didn’t seem to worry about whether or not he was going to make money producing his albums. After all he had a career he liked. What he seemed to appreciate the most from his experiences, were the relationships with fellow musicians, producers, and technicians in the industry. So, while I think it would be nice to make money doing what I do … With Story-Power, I enjoy meeting new people and having conversations with them about their creative process and a bit about their life stories. Each conversation is inspirational. Writing this blog, is just me working out how I feel about my life and my own creative process. That can be a way to connect with people too in a different way.
Another thing my little voice keeps telling me is to be still. The Universe, or God if you prefer, knows what my dreams are and will take care of them for me if I let It/Her/Him. If my mind and emotions are still, it’s easier for the Universe to take care of matters for me. Don’t believe me, go look up Quantum Entanglement Theory. Our minds are amazing attractors, but we have to be clear about what we want to attract, or entangle with.
I’m trying to clear up my signal so it’s obvious what I want the Universe to bring me. That’s not an easy task. There is so much noise about what we need to do to be successful, or to sell our products, books, etc., that sifting through it all can be a big chore. And yet, I’m determined to monitor my thoughts and feelings and turn them back to a kind of stillness that trusts the Universe to bring me what I truly want, while I do the creating.
Those are my thoughts for today. I hope you have a great weekend.
Blessings,
Lucinda Sage-Midgorden © 2023
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The Space Between Time
Lucinda is the author of The Space Between Time, an award finalist in the “Fiction: Fantasy” category of the 2017 Best Book Awards.
Have you ever experienced life shattering events? Yeah, after the last few years, most of us have. In The Space Between Time, Jenna Holden gets slammed by her fiancé walking out, her mother’s untimely death, and losing her job all in one week. But she receives unexpected help when she finds her three-times great-grandmother’s journals and begins the adventure of a lifetime.
The Space Between Time is available in all ebook formats at Smashwords and for Kindle at Amazon, or you can find the ebook at iBooks or Barnes and Noble. If you prefer a physical copy, you can find a print-on-demand version at Amazon. Stay tuned for news when the audiobook version is published.
Lucinda is also the host of Story-Power a podcast where she and her guests discuss their creative endeavors, and/or the stories that have changed their lives. It’s available here on Sage Woman Chronicles and on Apple, Google, and Spotify podcast apps. Please rate and leave a review. It helps people find me.
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