Comments on: Why following your bliss might not feel blissful http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html a virgo's guide to the universe Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Em http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40788 Em Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:19:52 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40788 Quite interesting. The posts remind me that I should "lose the expectations". There goes my self again, endeavoring to control that which should be relinquished. We are called human beings - that's an illusion at this point in time. What I am finding more often is that we are human doings. Stop doing, start being. Relinquish, refresh, reframe. Flow. Remember this is your incredible journey and savour the bumpiest and most twisted parts of it - you'll always recant those more often than the straight path. Namaste' Quite interesting. The posts remind me that I should “lose the expectations”. There goes my self again, endeavoring to control that which should be relinquished.

We are called human beings - that’s an illusion at this point in time. What I am finding more often is that we are human doings. Stop doing, start being. Relinquish, refresh, reframe. Flow.

Remember this is your incredible journey and savour the bumpiest and most twisted parts of it - you’ll always recant those more often than the straight path.

Namaste’

]]> By: the communicatrix http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40655 the communicatrix Sun, 25 May 2008 20:07:57 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40655 Earl - Oh! I'm glad you clarified the Reader's Digest Guy's motives. Here I was, attributing all kinds of stinky agendas to him. Look how fast I go to the dark place! I need an uplifting story, dammit! GirlPie - Well, thank you. For the nudge, too. Earl - Oh! I’m glad you clarified the Reader’s Digest Guy’s motives. Here I was, attributing all kinds of stinky agendas to him. Look how fast I go to the dark place! I need an uplifting story, dammit!

GirlPie - Well, thank you. For the nudge, too.

]]> By: GirlPie http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40652 GirlPie Sun, 25 May 2008 18:36:17 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40652 Oh Colleen, no one said you didn't maintain a terrific blog and column, but that your blogging brain was missed after that post on procrastination. And after reading your smart-funny "do one thing differently" post today, I think it was well worth the wait. Thanks. (Earl - I'd have thought you'd be finding a different hero for your RD piece; but given his story, why not lay claim to it and pitch it yourself as a hard-core investigative piece for one of the heavyweights... you're up to it.) Oh Colleen, no one said you didn’t maintain a terrific blog and column, but that your blogging brain was missed after that post on procrastination. And after reading your smart-funny “do one thing differently” post today, I think it was well worth the wait. Thanks.

(Earl - I’d have thought you’d be finding a different hero for your RD piece; but given his story, why not lay claim to it and pitch it yourself as a hard-core investigative piece for one of the heavyweights… you’re up to it.)

]]> By: Earl Kabong http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40648 Earl Kabong Sun, 25 May 2008 02:22:26 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40648 Just to be fair to the Reader's Digest guy, he seeks a more prestigious/influential press outlet not for himself, but because he wants someone to do some hard-core investigative reporting into some institutional ineptitudes and he fears that a Reader's Digest approach might not push the buttons he'd like to see pushed. And he may be right. I'm trying to convince him that doing the less-comprehensive RD piece doesn't lessen the odds that a higher-brow entity might want to do something more. And, in the meantime, there's no way to tell his heart-tugging tale without it being clear that mistakes were made by institutions that shouldn't have made them. That's the case I'm trying to make. Just to be fair to the Reader’s Digest guy, he seeks a more prestigious/influential press outlet not for himself, but because he wants someone to do some hard-core investigative reporting into some institutional ineptitudes and he fears that a Reader’s Digest approach might not push the buttons he’d like to see pushed. And he may be right. I’m trying to convince him that doing the less-comprehensive RD piece doesn’t lessen the odds that a higher-brow entity might want to do something more. And, in the meantime, there’s no way to tell his heart-tugging tale without it being clear that mistakes were made by institutions that shouldn’t have made them. That’s the case I’m trying to make.

]]> By: the communicatrix http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40647 the communicatrix Sun, 25 May 2008 00:19:43 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40647 Renita - That's what we're here for—to help each other out. GirlPie - Jesus! Pushy much? Yeah, yeah--I just came off a 21-day thingy. And a camera up my ass. Even the communicatrix needs a break now & again. But I'm on it, I'm on it. Oh, wait--I wasn't supposed to be commenting here, was I? Earl - Ho-ly crap: he said 'no' b/c he was hoping for bigger press?! Uh...that's not very...heartwarming. Don't quit. Or find a better story and dump him. Or don't even listen to me. What the hell do I know? All I write is a stupid actors' column and this blog. And as GirlPie has pointed out, I barely maintain that. Renita - That’s what we’re here for—to help each other out.

GirlPie - Jesus! Pushy much? Yeah, yeah–I just came off a 21-day thingy. And a camera up my ass. Even the communicatrix needs a break now & again. But I’m on it, I’m on it.

Oh, wait–I wasn’t supposed to be commenting here, was I?

Earl - Ho-ly crap: he said ‘no’ b/c he was hoping for bigger press?! Uh…that’s not very…heartwarming. Don’t quit. Or find a better story and dump him. Or don’t even listen to me. What the hell do I know? All I write is a stupid actors’ column and this blog. And as GirlPie has pointed out, I barely maintain that.

]]> By: Earl Kabong http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40646 Earl Kabong Sat, 24 May 2008 20:06:00 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40646 Huh? What? I must have dozed off here on the couch. Is that a Cheeto? Oh, crap. It's a carrot stick. Never mind. The Reader's Digest guy continues to fend me off, hoping to be featured in a higher-brow publication. But he may yet come around. I haven't quit on him just yet. Huh? What? I must have dozed off here on the couch. Is that a Cheeto? Oh, crap. It’s a carrot stick. Never mind.

The Reader’s Digest guy continues to fend me off, hoping to be featured in a higher-brow publication. But he may yet come around. I haven’t quit on him just yet.

]]> By: GirlPie http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40645 GirlPie Sat, 24 May 2008 18:23:34 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40645 Stop procrastinating and finish/post your next post. It doesn't have to be profound, but post (not answer comments) and get it outta the way. They call it 'getting back on the horse' -- as I'm sure Earl Kabong is doing with his search-for-the-next-Reader's Digest-Star... right? Stop procrastinating and finish/post your next post. It doesn’t have to be profound, but post (not answer comments) and get it outta the way. They call it ‘getting back on the horse’ — as I’m sure Earl Kabong is doing with his search-for-the-next-Reader’s Digest-Star… right?

]]> By: Renita http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40644 Renita Sat, 24 May 2008 04:19:09 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40644 Thanks for this, Colleen. I've been having a string of not-easy days lately as well. But we have to remember: "If it were easy, everyone would be doing it." Thanks for this, Colleen. I’ve been having a string of not-easy days lately as well. But we have to remember: “If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.”

]]> By: the communicatrix http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40638 the communicatrix Thu, 22 May 2008 23:28:01 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40638 <em>i look forward to meeting you on your next trip to Ojai</em> Hmmm...Ojai TweetUp? Given the profound lack of interest in Things Internetal I saw at the coffee shop, it'd be a mighty small gathering. i look forward to meeting you on your next trip to Ojai

Hmmm…Ojai TweetUp?

Given the profound lack of interest in Things Internetal I saw at the coffee shop, it’d be a mighty small gathering.

]]> By: derek http://www.communicatrix.com/2008/05/follow-your-bliss.html#comment-40637 derek Thu, 22 May 2008 05:46:35 +0000 http://www.communicatrix.com/?p=1329#comment-40637 honesty is the closest thing to truth . . . looking is seeing, and expressing from that vulnerability is the path least taken . . . i look forward to meeting you on your next trip to Ojai. honesty is the closest thing to truth . . . looking is seeing, and expressing from that vulnerability is the path least taken . . . i look forward to meeting you on your next trip to Ojai.

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