• the ability to be aware of the present, your actions and your thoughts.
• the ability to stop immediately anything you are doing.

Just in case you do not understand what I mean, I will provide you with some real life examples.

Health & Weight Loss:
To lose weight you need to control your eating habits and body exercise. Be aware of the amount and the quality of the food you are eating. Be aware of the amount of exercises and movements you do. If you’re aware and catch yourself doing something wrong, use your ability to stop it immediately. Then refocus and try some other way.

Money, Work & To-Do Lists:
Be aware of what tasks you are doing right now. You could do the most important tasks or you could use unimportant tasks as an excuse. Also be aware of the results you get. If you catch yourself procastinating, immediately stop what you are doing and choose another task.

Relationships:
Be aware of your way of interacting with other people. Be aware of what they say, listen to them carefully and speak consciously. Be able to stop any wrong behaviour immediately to change your way of interaction positively.

Exercise:
Be aware of your body movements and do them conciously, listen to your body and push yourself, but be aware of the limit. Stop immediately if you are doing it wrong, focusing on losing time or recognizing negative thoughts. Your body deserves your full attention when exercising.

Creativity:
Emerge yourself fully into your creative process and lose sight of anything around you. Become your creative output, leaving your position as the creator behind and blending with the creation.  Be aware of the beauty, but stop immediately and focus again if you recognize doing it only half-assed.

Spirituality:
When meditating, be aware of your thoughts and the stillness between them. Just be aware of all that is, be the observer of it. But if you start to identifying yourself with your thoughts again, stop immediately the second you recognize it and grow your awareness again.

That’s all you need. Go get it!

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.