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A Blank Page

My first day in Costa Rica, and this is what I saw. Nature paints a beautiful picture, and I stand and look in awe

I sit to write every morning having no idea what the subject is going to be. There is only a blank page before me, and in a moment the thoughts begin to flow and words start to appear on the page.

I have no idea where they come from, I just know that they will come. Without fail, every day, the page begins to fill up with those thoughts and then I walk away.

Often when I return to edit the words, I can’t remember having written them. It is like reading it for the first time. It is a form of automatic writing, where nothing is censored and it just spills on to the page.

The editing usually involves rearranging the blocks into something cohesive, because often the thoughts are scattered around with no thread connecting them.

Sometimes I have to change the title because what I thought I was going to write about turned into something else completely.

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Am I Doing My Best?

Another Costa Rican waterfall. I don’t judge the performance of nature – why do I judge my own?

In the book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz manages to sum up the secret to living peacefully into four simple statements. Be impeccable with your word. Don’t take anything personally. Don’t make any assumptions. Always do your best.

It is the last one that I find the most intriguing. 

First, is it even possible to always do your best? It is, if you understand that your best will look different all of the time.

Just because you were able to do something yesterday doesn’t mean that it will look the same today. We always think that we should get better and do more but sometimes that just isn’t possible.

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