Bliss-full

Warm and wise BlissChick (oh how I wish I’d thought of that for a blog title!) is encouraging participation in her Live your Bliss Accountability Circle. Once a week we’ll encourage each other to invest in our own best selves.

In January I wrote about my intention for this year – to live in the spirit of these words:

..when your heart thrums with delight as you turn towards a specific person, desire or dream, keep moving in that direction…

So what better than Blisschick’s invitation to keep me on track? This week’s question is:

When you visualize your happiest, healthiest, most rockin’est self, what do you see? Where do you see this? What are you doing? Come on! Share!

I love learning. To me it’s sacred space. New facts, new skills, new ideas – it almost doesn’t matter what. There’s a particular moment that comes as I scale the slope of learning and it all begins to come together: still difficult, still things to know, but some of the climb is behind me, and the energy of what I’ve learned gives me the momentum to reach the spectacular view at the top of the slope.

Sometimes the learning slope is a little bump, sometimes a hill, sometimes a mountain.

Often, when I’ve done with the learning, I’ll stop doing what I learned. The activity itself no longer matters to me, I’ve got what I needed from it. I used to think I was a really bad person who couldn’t stick at anything until I discovered writer and coach Barbara Sher. Her book What do I do when I want to do everything (published in the States as Refuse to Choose) identified me as what she calls a Scanner: someone fascinated by so many areas she can’t settle for just one.

One example: in January my baby sister turned 50. As a gift, I put together a book of memories for her using the Blurb publishing service (found via my dear friend Lucy). I lived and breathed that book for two weeks, learning the software, gathering family photographs and other perfect snippets of content, playing with the layout. I was entranced, obsessed, impassioned, convinced my future was in self-publishing books.  I couldn’t wait until the copy finally arrived. It looked great, I gave it to my sister and she loved it. And I haven’t thought about Blurb since.

So what have I learned this week? All about off-grid living, from a book of the same name by Nick Rosen. Ask me about solar panels and batteries, wind turbines, planning regulations for woodland dwellings in the UK, how to heat a yurt. Anything. (And if you really are interested, check out the website here.)

So tell me, who are you when you are your “healthiest, happiest, rockin’est self”?

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