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Freewriting
Freewriting is a great way to get started on any paper.
Begin with the basic idea or concept of what you want to write about. If you don't have a basic idea, that's ok. An idea will come to you as you freewrite.
Now, set your timer for seven minutes. Some say ten minutes is best. It's up to you. I find that the shorter amount of time doesn't allow too many educated thoughts to invade the intuitive mindset you're about to enter. This excercise is not about what's right. It's about putting your educated mind aside, giving yourself up to the universe, and allowing your cosmic AT&T line to connect with the blank page or screen in front of you.
Start your timer and write without stopping for seven minutes. Whether you believe your writing is good or bad, don’t stop. If you run out of thoughts, stay positive. Write “yes” or “a new thought will come in a moment,” or “I can do this.” Repeat until a new thought comes. It will.
You must not stop. That is the goal. You are forcing your innate intelligence to override your educated intelligence. You are turning on your creative engine by allowing your intuitive mind to take over.
Freewriting is a great way to get started on any paper.
Begin with the basic idea or concept of what you want to write about. If you don't have a basic idea, that's ok. An idea will come to you as you freewrite.
Now, set your timer for seven minutes. Some say ten minutes is best. It's up to you. I find that the shorter amount of time doesn't allow too many educated thoughts to invade the intuitive mindset you're about to enter. This excercise is not about what's right. It's about putting your educated mind aside, giving yourself up to the universe, and allowing your cosmic AT&T line to connect with the blank page or screen in front of you.
Start your timer and write without stopping for seven minutes. Whether you believe your writing is good or bad, don’t stop. If you run out of thoughts, stay positive. Write “yes” or “a new thought will come in a moment,” or “I can do this.” Repeat until a new thought comes. It will.
You must not stop. That is the goal. You are forcing your innate intelligence to override your educated intelligence. You are turning on your creative engine by allowing your intuitive mind to take over.
14 comments:
If i was to compare myself today to how i desire top be i would fail miserably because i am nowhere near what i would like to be professionally. In five years i would like to be on my feet, own a house, a car, and be back in school to learn more about cars. But in the meantime i am still in school and stuck in a dead end job. I would really like to get out of fast food but it is going to be hard to do.
If I were to compare myself, professionally, to what I would like to be in 5 years, I easily realize there is a drastic difference. As it is, even though I own a house, two cars, and have a wonderful family, I am still trying to gain an education to have a better job to support my family more efficiently. I imagine that in 5 years, I will have a very stable, well-paying, and enjoyable job. Still, with my education, I will be able to get the job I want and hopefully become the professional image of me that I see 5 years away.
Comparing myself to how i desire to be, I would say there are some traits I hope to carry with me, while some I wouldn't mind losing. I'm hoping that after school is completed it gives me some much needed credibility and respect. As it stands now, respect is a very hard thing to earn. I go into work, try to work hard even though the job sucks but I'm trying to maintain a strong work ethic, even though people treat you as if your disposable. I strive to have a better paying job, that will challenge me and hopefully I will succeed at. Instead of now where it's a fight just to go into work.
My idea of a professional poison in the corporate sector would be in Law Enforcement. I feel the profession that I have chosen will improve my standard of life as will as my professionalism within the work place. Think Lawyers, Judges to be affiliated with that profession is a beginning for me. With the field of law there are so many challenging oppertunities. With a lot of hard work and dedicaton my window of opportunity is open.
With the field that I am in at the present time is smothering me. I feel that I have reached the end of the road with the medical field and I need a change. I don’t like blood so nurse or doctor will not work for me. There are so many incompentent medical staff right now it is mind boggeling. That is a big reason why I am making this change to a whole different field, Law Enforcement.
Within five years I picture myself researching crime sceenes as a detective or working for The FBI cracking cases. How about Drug Enforcement Agent I have very big dreams. With prayers and hard work this dream will come to pass…
If I were to compare myself now to five years from now, I would be more professional in the future because I would have had more time to grow mentally. How I am now, well I'm learning how to conduct myself in the business world. Also I'm training to be a bio-med technician witch will allow me to make more money. Five years from now I would have the experience to work in the bio-med field making some decent money. Not to mention the way I dress now is wearing long shirts baggie jeans. Five years from now I'll be tucking my shirt in also wearing jeans that fit right.
today I am great, tomorrow I'll be amazing, in five years, look out world.
currently I'm not a person, I'm a number in the ranks of the United States Navy. I'm a student and live with roommates in wonderful P-town. But life is still good.
In the life of tomorrow I will finally be a person to be freee to make my own decisions. I will no longer be a student and will have entered the work force as a biomed repair/sales. As for P-town, never looking back I will be in CA the part of the country that skips the lousy seasons.
You stay classy San Diego
Professionally today? Ha! I worked for a Labor Ready for three years giving people jobs. We were required to "be professional", but there was NOTHING professional about that place, so I went back to managing a Papa Johns. I did that for a little while but realized I was making more money as a driver-and only working half the hours! So, I'm sorry to say my "professionalism" has gone way down in the dumps. That's why I came here! I had no self-esteem or self-worth whatsoever and I knew that I needed to be back into a "somewhat-professional" atmosphere. I needed a place I could get the training I needed to be better than what I have turned out to be.
When I came here, I didn't have a major picked out! I LITERALLY closed my eyes and checked whichever box my finger happened to land on and now? Abracadabra...here I am!
In five years, I truly hope to be somewhere that's NOT a pizza place or assigning people minimum wage paying jobs. My major is web-design and to be honest, I really want to do free-lance work! I like the idea of working in my own home, having minimalist bosses who truly trust me and respect me and absolutely "WOW-ing" them with my abilities.
In my opinion, professionalism is A LOT more than just how you look at an interview, or how well you delegate to a team on a job. I think it's how you deliver your TALENT and LOVE for what you're doing. Personally, I'd much rather give a raise to someone who may not be on the rising end of fashion, and may have a bad day here or there, but can build a BEAUTIFUL web-site packed full of extra content and is finished EARLY, versus giving someone a raise that looks great and talks great, but is only there for a paycheck and only does the minimalist amount possible in the longest amount of time.
To be honest, I don't know where I plan to be, professionally speaking, in five years. I still have a long way to go before I figure that out-but just because I FINALLY made the decision to put one foot in front of the other and actually go to college; 8-year after being a high school dropout, overcoming a divorce and getting used to being a single mom (and that's only the tip of the ice-burg), then I'm CONFIDENT that in five years, I'll only be getting into bigger and better things-better than I could have ever imagined for myself-and with that, I'll be content. :)
At the end of my work day some part of my body is always sore. My feet hurt from being on them all day. My back feels twisted from lifting something too heavy for me to lift in the first place. As for being professional about my work, I would say that I am a professional. I get great satisfaction from a job well done. I like think I have a work-to-learn attitude, but like everyone, I have my off days. While I enjoy aspects of my job, this is definitely not a place I intend to be in five years. In five years, I see my professional life in my own air conditioned office with windows. Maybe I will even own a company and have someone working for me for a change. In the future, maybe I will be sore at the end of the work day from seating down all day or I might have hand craps from writing too much. I cannot wait.
In five years I will have my degree in Network Security and will be working in corporate America. Unlike today i hopefully will make a lot more money. With a degree i will be able to get a much better job so i will be much closer to my goal of making 100,000 a year by time i am 36.
I am the type of person who always thinks outside the box thats why i chose to go back to school i wanted to improve myself, my way of living and my happiness. I always believed that happiness is a gift from God. So i said to myself thats what i have to find something that keeps me happy ALWAYS. Now professionally i would have to say that i will just grow more and more, there will be no set place in my life where i would stop and say "hey i am more professional now than i was in college OR 5 YEARS AGO" NOT GONNA HAPPEN because i trully believe that i am already there. When i leave my home and go out into the world i use three things. 1)Respect. for anybody and everybody. 2)Love. I treat people as i want to be treated and nothing less. and last but not least Happiness i don't bring my problems outside of my home, so when people see me i will be smiling or if i'm not smiling it's probably because i am focusing on something or someone. In 5 years i will be the same professionally because i think profession should never change. you should stay professional at all times when you are out and about or at school you never know whose watching. In 5 years i will be smarter and wiser and just me. Still a mom and a wife with a great job that pays good and A Graduate from ECPI.....
there are many areas in my day-to-day and my general person that i wish to improve within the next 5 years. Being more deliberate and less impulsive, a better mastery of time management, and a much more clearer insight to what consequences result from my actions/decisions. Even traits i would consider my strengths i hope to improve. There's an old saying that i always try to refer back to: "When one is face with a difficult decision, it is best to make a choice within the space of 10 breaths." And lastly over the next 5 years i can only hope to be smart enough to comprehend the wisdom of my peers and elders.
Today I see myself as a blue collar, down to earth kinda guy. I do a lot of physical work to earn a living, deal with a lot of people that do not appreciate what I do for them, and sweat a whole lot more than I ever wanted to. I make a decent amount of money for what I do but the emotional rewards are null and void. I do not feel like I am working at my full potential. In five years I would like to work as a Electronics Technical Advisor for a large tech type company. My pay would increase dramatically, the stress level would decrease, the amount of physical labor would be minimal, and I would be able to spend more time with my family. Not quite the white collar but a little more refined than my previous self. Still down to earth and able to connect with all people, but also raise myself above the nominal BS that flows throughout the normal workplace. I would feel that I am actually making a difference with what I am doing.
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