Brain Crack

Patrick, my son is a great source of YouTube clips. A couple of weeks ago he showed me one called, "Brain Crack." It's all about having great ideas but never getting around to executing them. As I watched it one word went through my head, "BUSTED". Patrick and I just looked at one another and nodded. "Brain Crack Partners in Crime."!!

Well on his birthday he phoned to tell me he had got rid of an enormous piece of Brain Crack. For a long time he had dreamed of busking, so on his birthday he picked up his guitar, went to Trafalgar Square and busked. He earned £2 and was thrilled. More by the fact that he had finally done it than anything else. I could feel I was losing my "Brain Crack Partner in Crime".

So the pressure was on. Then last week Bill mentioned something Caroline Myss had said about how until something moves below the heart into the solar plexus we don't have anything invested. I suppose an idea comes into the crown chakra as inspiration, then you visualise it (the brow chakra) then you talk about it (the throat chakra) and then you imagine how it would feel (the heart chakra). Then you have to commit, which deciding to do what is required to bring it to life. That's when it begins to get real. You apply your power to it. You "invest" in it. If you don't it just sits there as ....you've got it....BRAIN CRACK.

This week I decided to try something new. Each evening I have spent a few moments making a list of what I have done. In particular the brain crack I have dealt with. I have been really surprised at how effective this has been. Over the course of the week I have actually got through quite a bit of brain crack. The combination of awareness and focusing on what I have achieved rather than beating myself up about what I haven't, seems to have worked wonders. I have written three blogs rather than just think about them, sent flowers to my Mum rather than think it would be a nice idea, made fig jam rather than just buy the sugar, written letters to prospective clients for a new business, created a leaflet and put my boots on and gone for a walk rather than just looking out at the sunshine (there was some this week - honest).

As well as making inroads into my brain crack (there's still plenty left believe me) it seems to have started a flow of positive results in other areas. Almost as though by committing the energy in one area has allowed it to flow in others. It's early days but as they say, "initial results are promising".