Staying focused

Why do I procrastinate by reading blogs?
Are you procrastinating by reading my blog?

We are frantically getting ready for CHA.
Lists everywhere (now that is a problem - why write a list and another and another and put them all in different places!), ribbon everywhere, Lou working awful hours, me forgetting too many things already.

So I stayed up late tonight to finish some paperwork. At least my desk is clean now and tomorrow I won't be horrified. Now it is 1:45am ish and I need to rest.
But I can't.
Too many things bouncy around in the brain.

So now I am procrastinating from going to sleep. Is this a warning sign or something?
So instead of shutting down, I did a google search for
"peaceful thought"

And I found this lovely blog.

I read the history portion and was charmed. Here it is.....

I created this web site out of a desire to share what I have learned in my life thus far with a wider audience, in the hope that it may prove useful whilst deepening my understanding at the same time. I want the workings of my life to make a positive impact upon the lives of others.
Some years back I read that we apparently live in a “benign and abundant universe”. I was captured by the implications of that notion. However this universe did not seem particularly benign and abundant when I looked at the world around me and all the famines and hardships experienced by the population of this planet.
Time passed and as I looked at my life I grew to see how opportunities tirelessly presented themselves to me over and over again and how “things” always seemed to work out eventually; yet in ways quite unlike those that I may have demanded simply through my personal reasoning. Yes, there was certainly an abundance of choices and paths available to me at least. So I set about learning more of this abundance theory and began putting it into practice. After all if the Universe really is a benign and abundant place then what a tremendous hope this holds for humanity at large. How would we live if we no longer feared lack? I suggest that we would probably share more and fight less.
I observe humanity presently living in a world motivated largely by a very real and tangible fear of lack. We stay in destructive relationships for fear that nothing better is likely to be found. We stick to jobs we hate for fear of unemployment or of not finding a better job. We betray our own instincts and values in order to “fit in” with a peer group for fear of rejection, abandonment or ridicule. We often buy cheap, poorly designed and made goods because we feel we cannot afford quality and fear not having enough for the essentials of life let alone “luxuries”. We buy “three for the price of two” when we only want one as this seems a bargain (fear of future lack) even though in that moment we are actually spending more than we intended.
Some live humble and extremely simple lives out of a conviction that there is not enough in the world, and feel it is their duty to live a frugal existence. Then others live lives overrun by all manner of excesses that still contrive to remain insufficient to them, as this same fear of lack and the certainty of the impermanence of all things lurks anxiously beneath their current experience of wealth. What if we really felt that our material needs and desires could, should, were and would be met? What if there really was enough and the world and the Universe really were abundant?
I now fully believe it is. In essence all we need to do in order to enjoy this new found peace is shift our beliefs and perspectives; we can then challenge ourselves to make different choices and risk the outcome.

I am sooooooo that person that buys three when I only need one. Hmmmmm.

I will now leave you with a happy thought before I shuffle off to bed t try to sleep.

A sneak peek of one of our new ribbons....

I designed this on a night that i could not sleep.
It is called Pokey.
Named after the fabric that inspired me that had a cowboy on it.
Named after Robin's cat who passed away last year. A cat with very, very big eyes.

Comments

[Jennifer: Wilson-six]

Hi Jennifer,

I came across you website and your blog today. Maybe you heard me shriek with delight all the way up North. My name is Jennifer, DOB is Oct. 9, I love ribbon. I am a closet hoarder!! I have my own business making baby gifts and use ribbon for lots of my things. I just had to leave you a comment. I love all your ribbon and your blog. I am currently working on redesigning my blog and the lady that is doing it sent me a proof yesterday and I am using diff stripes as my header. I then came across you website with all the stripes. It is just so cool all the similarities we have. Ok enough from me.
Jen