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Vol 5. No. 133
December 15, 2006
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CONTENTS:

December 15, 2006 -

Delight to Wisdom

Passion Activator Coaching

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Dear Passion Activators,

Wow. It is Friday. The middle of
December. I just walked/ran for 20 minutes -
my first day in the "Couch to 5K in 90 Days"
program... which puts me right on target to
run a St. Patrick's Day 5K.

I am excited.

And like many of the really cool stuff I
am up to, I was reminded to do this from
one of my buddies on 43things.com.

If you want to see what happens there, visit
their main page.

If you want to see what I am up to,
specifically, visit this link.

Today's article is especially personal... I
hope you enjoy it and can take its lessons,
integrate them - and live more passionately
as a result.

I have included a feature that was in the
beginning of this ezine... some coaching
questions immediately following the article.

Ponder them as you feel called - -

With Passionate Gratitude,

Julie

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Delight to Wisdom
© 2006
Julie Jordan Scott

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
Robert Frost

I have started to sink my heart into a recap of 2006: what
I have accomplished, the places where my creativity has
soared and a bit of where I wish I had gone deeper or
accomplished differently.

I am grateful for my contemplative nature right now – I
am in a peaceful, love-filled space where awe is the order
of the day and Judgment is in its box in the closet, only
taken out when appropriate rather than parading  around
the room, cackling and spouting negative verbage while
he waves a tarnished scepter constantly extended and
ready to point directly into my gut from his
crackly, withered hand.

I laughed out loud as I finished creating that
last sentence.

I have quite the relationship with Judgment, I see.

Judgment is like my Inner Critic – who I actually enjoy
hanging out with when appropriate.  Judgment has his place,
it simply isn’t where contemplation and awe and wonder
are allowed to enter the room.

I get to steep with those friends. I get to sip tea and
listen to harmonies and frolic about the woods and kick
my feet in the water with them.  I invite Judgment and
the Critic when I am ready for their special brand
of partnership. 

I steep with Judgment and the Critic, too – but I need
the quiet, soul time with my other friends, first.

Right now, in the beginnings of my year-end review,
they belong in boxes on shelves where they will stay
until I choose to bring them out.

It has been a year very dominated by theatre.  I have
loved and despised theatre this year.  I have never
been luke-warm with it, thankfully, which tells me
the passion is still strong.

It has been a year of loss: death and near-death,
ended relationships and all endings, I have remembered,
also spark new beginnings.

It has been a year to be naked and raw, both metaphorically
and not metaphorically.

It has been a year of self-discovery beyond any I have
experienced in the past. In the last couple weeks, it has
been a time of recommitment to my long held vision for my
professional life.

I find myself most open to treasuring what was good and
right and whole, which is where I am spending my time now.
I am finding, also, that sometimes what started out as
horrific losses or events too painful to put into words
have now become the most imbued with goodness, with
rightness, with wholeness.

I have written more poetry this year than I have in past
years, which says a lot because I tend to be prolific always.
This year is extra special.

This year the Divine delivered My Muse to me. There must
have been a sense that I was ready, after forty four years
of living and breathing, to experience an encounter unlike
any other human encounter.

When I saw the quote at the top of this essay from Robert Frost,
I immediately connected to it, especially in relationship
to my poetry. When I read it again, I saw that it pointed
towards the Poetry-with-Breath-and-a-heartbeat that is
My Muse.

I would agree – “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom”.
I would agree even more that “Days spent with My Muse begin
in delight and end in wisdom.”

Even more than that, time spent with My Muse multiplies
when I share those times with you.

Delight magnified and multiplied.  Wisdom breathed, pulsed, lived.

The beginning of the very end of an exceptionally sacred year.

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Passion Activator Coaching: Create a list of "delights" from
your experience of 2006.

What is the wisdom that is unfolding as a result?

What makes this year sacred for you and unique from among
the other years you have lived?

What will you do and who will you aim to be to make
2007 more sacred, more filled with delight, more
open to divine wisdom?

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Julie Jordan Scott is a Writer, Speaker, Success Coach, Actor,
Workshop Facilitator and Mother Extraordinaire who created
the DreamActivation program to ignite your dreams.
Use the Power of DreamWitness, Focus and Intentional
Action to live your wildest dreams now....

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