by iDream_in_Infrared

It’s time for me to become a novelist. On December 31st shortly before midnight I told myself that 2009 will become the best year I’ve ever had in my life before. This project is a chance to get seizable results to show to myself and others. While I have grown a lot this year, I’m not able to prove this to other people. I don’t need their appreciation, but when I’m yelling into the world that 2009 will / is my best year since I was born, people might ask me what curious had happened. Then I be able to say that I’ve grown on my personal and spiritual level as same as that I’m a novelist!

For everyone who doesn’t know what the NaNoWriMo is about, here you’ve got the full description from their website:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano

In short:
You are going to write a novel with at least 50.000 words in november only. 30 days to write a novel is a tough plan, that’s why your story doesn’t need to be great – it depends just on your discipline to write such a long novel.

I see a great opportunity for myself to gain more self-discipline through attenting to this project. After november I will be able to look back gladly and tell myself, that I’ve reached a big goal in 30 days, which most of the people on earth never reach in their entire life. If this isn’t motivational for upcoming goals, I would really need professional help.

I’m really exited because I have nothing prepared – just 2 characters and their descriptions as their living locations. I’ll see what real creative flow can create, because I’ll try to stay focused in a positive mindstate to let the words flow through my fingers. I don’t want to create by myself. I want to let creating. Someone or something (even if it’s just my unconsciousness) will take control.

We’ll see on november 30th what will have happened.

by Stephen Poff

Why not?

Yes. You could loose all your money, your car, your home, your wife and / or your children, your family could hate you, you could have nothing to eat. But hell it’s worth it! – if you gonna accept the consequences and will be willing to learn.

Because sometimes we really need to fall deep down until we’ve learned something essential. We know that a lot of really successful people had a hard youth, not much money and problems. But they’ve overcome this obstacles, they’ve survived and: they’ve learned. They got courage, they know how to break the greatest walls on the way to your dreams. That’s why I recommend:

If you are falling already, keep falling until you learn your lesson. Then never fall again so deep.

Remember that you should only fall once in your lifetime in the same way. Then never again. Be open to every emotion you’ll feel, keep your clarity even in the worst case scenario and you’ll gain so much power, strenght, courage and energy from your failure, that you’ll have the energy to run up that hill again – and even much further than the point from where you’ve fallen down.

But never fall down without learning your lession or you’ll need to repeat it again. And again. And again. I want you to understand that failure is the real success. Even if you are going to fall a hundred times until you’ll be successful, in reality you have succeeded a hundred times before putting all peaces together to unravel the mystery.

And really: The best way to get clarity about a topic is through an ultimate failure. When you’ll realize what matters the most, get up. Your dream is waiting.

by suvodeb

Today I want to talk about simplicity in your own kitchen. While I don’t have my own kitchen, but I’m sure a lot of you have, I tried to accomplish this simplicity just for myself in a maybe unique way. I want to share with you what idea came to be.

2 of a pair

I chose to only own every thing in the kitchen 2 times. 2 plates, 2 forks, to knives, to spoons, 2 glasses and so on. While my Mother still got many many dishes, I chose 2 of every kind for myself to “own” for a while. She had no problems with my decision, even less when I said that I will clean them by myself.

How does such a minimalistic kitchen life look like?

Today is my first day of this experiment and I ate already some toast. I’ve taken one plate and one knife, used it to make my toast and cleaned my plate directly after, my knife even before eating my toast. This really was not hard for me to accomplish. I mean, to clean one knife and plate it takes maybe 30 seconds. And there is no dishwasher needed anymore for myself. I’ll save some water by the way, that’s nice too.

I think I’ll enjoy this new little lifestyle change. We’ll see how long it will last. Maybe ’till forever?
And yes, Greenpeace is going to be proud of me.