“I just want to keep on doing the things I love – I just think I’m very, very lucky”

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Michael Eldridge has been exploring this ‘creative planet’ of ours all his life – he’s lived in New Zealand, South Africa, California, the UK and presently in the beautiful Tuscan hills in Italy. As an artist, he treasures the details – “the preciousness of just the moment” and this underpins everything he does. His latest photographic collaboration is called simply, “Trees and Sky“.

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What a lovely film – someone who truly loves doing what they do…thank-you Tem.

Do you love what you’re doing so much you’d make a short film about it??

Over on my art blog michellerumney.com, I just turned the page to Week 4  - Developing a Sense of Integrity of the 12 week Artist’s Way program. Snoozily reading my way through this week’s chapter last night, I reached the end of the chapter and thought – “that sounds like a pretty easy week – there aren’t so many exercises as last week… all you have to do this week is “Reading Deprivation” – that just means to not read anything… that sounds ok…” … and then I went to sleep.

“This is not just my work – this is the work of all women on the planet at the moment – to go out and take the essence of the feminine out there and share it with others ”

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“Spend time envisioning your future – you don’t have to know what’s happening in your future – just imagine… a future moment where you’re doing something that you love and you set it up as a surprise… and just experience and discover what you’re doing”

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“Don’t wait to figure it out – start…
You can’t go wrong here, because there’s power in just getting going. Do something… You can’t make a mistake here – just get on, like live, come alive!”

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“recognise that it is a struggle… it’s not an easy task for most of us… its actually something you need to work at through self-knowledge and through courage… stick with it as much as you can, because the only way forward is to move forward…”

Are you doing Great Work? not just good work, but really Great Work? Michael Bungay Stanier asks the bigger questions and helps people focus on doing the work that has meaning and will make a difference. With his company, Box of Crayons, he’s created numerous practical tools to help others find their purpose and ’stop the busywork and start the work that matters’, including books, workshops programs and some inspirational Flash movies (links below).

Lately, I’ve been trying very hard to cultivate some new habits. These include practicing yoga instead of thinking about it, managing my time more efficiently instead of multi-tasking and getting nowhere, writing blog and twitter posts regularly instead of whenever I feel like, doing the work in Darren’s fantastic 31 days to Build a Better Blog course, taking time out to relax instead of moving straight on to the next thing on the list, or rather, mindmap… and lots more.

We watched one of the many David Attenborough DVDs that mum sent through for the boys tonight – part of his ‘Attenborough in Paradise And Other Personal Journeys’ series. This one was on Bower Birds.

I just checked on Wilkipedia to see exactly how old Sir DFA is (81) and found out he was born on 8th May – the same as my grandmother, which makes me even more fond of him. What an amazing lifetime’s work. There he was on the DVD, a little bit slower than he used to be, but still the same David, explaining gently to camera as he traipsed through some Australian subtropical forest, the fascinating details behind the behaviour of the male bowerbirds in that neck of the woods.