Return to Writing Down/Bones; N. Goldberg;Beginner's Mind

Allow yourself to be a beginner again. Allow yourself to have a beginner's mind ... again. I used Writing/Bones, Wild Mind, Artists Way, and Brain Building(M. vos Savant) in the early nineties as a self-help aggregate. These books aided me in making decisions while writing. In continuing studies/ adult learning of any age/pursuit of a livelihood/meaningful acitivities it was clear being a beginner again opened the doors to pursuing fields/topics/interests/areas where otherwise a hypercritical view would be disabling to growth, stifling to ceativity, an obstruction to change (for the better), and toxicity in pursuit of a right livelihood. Allow yourself to be a beginner again. Ten thousand hours to mastery; .... ready, set, ... go.

So what is beginner's mind? We have all been beginners. Creativity is taking old/new materials and generating a new product/service. Writing is a form of creativity. It is generative, as opposed to degenerative. It is productive rather than destructive. It is change for the better. It is advocacy, voicing one's existence, and it is freedom of expression. It is progressive. It is liberating the worker to increase productivity. Everything starts w/ a beginning. By definition? No? Yes. Why not master being a beginner? Wonderful things happen when one has an open mind and allows the energy of the Universe to work w/ oneself. And you are not alone. Like everyone being a special creation/human being together commonly having the characteristic of uniqueness, everyone can be alone together going deep as in meditation. If one allowed to make mistakes, wouldn't that open up doors to a new world? Your personal world along w/ your tribe would be freed from obstructions that kept you constrained in the past. Allowing yourself to begin again at any task, mistakes and learning experiences as well, frees you to grow/change/advance/create, write that novel. Write that trilogy, series, ... . Small changes can make big differences. Having the mindset of beginner allows you to start anew.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Mastery sounds tempting. The ten thousand hours to mastery rule is w/in reach and more friendly. I allowed myself to start, to being a beginner in 1991. Five years later keeping the day job, following the self-help books mentioned plus some others and supportive people I had my completed ms. in hand in '95. I laso had a master of arts degree and membership into Mensa. The hard work payed off. And I realised I had the skill/talent developing/skills to start again, another novel, more. Two trilogies and a "hippie sci-fi," more writing and by 2001 I was in good position. In 2010 the official date for the start of officially the electronic publishing age I was a prepared mind w/ opportunity knocking from w/in. It starts w/ a single step on the journey of a thousand.

It was the right decision I took. To keep writing more after the effort of well-groundedness, of being a beginner w/ the first book (now in paper and a derivative electronic) give you a position of taking your investment of energy and time, a force/distance duality inmaking progress. Progress and productivity on the increase are made by liberating the worker. Free yourself from the oppression. The energy, the love of writing is a romance that drives one to beginning like palid, blushing cheeks of intoxicating love that is the life force to birthing creativity energy manifested.

"Ten thousand hours to mastery." Beginner's mind. Ready, set, go.

Sitting meditation, visualising, being a beginner in this new moment moving the hand across the page/fingers over the keyboard meditation in motion, a walking meditation of sorts, births an event, finding one's rightly tribe, adroitly to creativity, closer to a divine creator being at peace w/ the writers' tribe; Nabokov, B.E. Ellis, D. Coupland, H. Robbins, Goldberg, maybe Bunyan, Janowitz, Kushner, Ginsberg, Vonnegut, Jr., Keroauc, Sh. Alechaim ... .

It is worth doing. It is worth doing wrong on the path of doing it right. It is worth being a beginner for the first time, ... and again. W/ the applicable tool; being a beginner ... one can take on a new task, an old project thru new eyes, a different perspective, (Small changes make big differences.) w/ useful tools, effective tools. Discern the way.

Allow yourself to be. Allow yourself to have a beginner's mind, do beginner's mind things, be the beginner's mind. Create, write, be the creator, grow, stretch, take on new things, generate, produce, be of service. Live life, generate life. Bring life to a "blank page." Nurture your creativity. Allow yourself to begin. Each moment, event, breath. Choose life. Choose happiness. Be the authentic you; discover yourself. Choose yourself. To be a beginner w/ beginner's mind. Become seasoned. It starts, in the beginning w/ the characters created from nothingness having being in itself. Embrace the well-grounded beginners that we are. Now where is the hummus?

("Tofu" people do not allow themselves to begin. "Too few." Okay, just a joke.) Allow yourself. Mistakes and all. Allow yourself the opportunity for lessons (so-called mistakes and failures). Begin the beginners mindset, allow the tool on your toolbelt.

Be. Simply be. Be the beginner. Beingness in being. Mantras; I am the beginner's mind. I am blissfully. I will be the beginner's mind. I can be the beginner's mind. I act to be the beginner's mind.